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Nestlé is First Major Manufacturer to Become a ‘Living Wage’ Employer in the UK

    Nestlé is First Major Manufacturer to Become a ‘Living Wage’ Employer in the UK

Nestlé has received accreditation as a Living Wage employer in the UK. The accreditation covers approximately 8,000 employees across Nestlé UK and its sister companies, which include: Nestlé Nutrition, Nestlé

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UK Grocery Market Inflation Falls to Record Low

    UK Grocery Market Inflation Falls to Record Low

The latest grocery share figures from Kantar Worldpanel, for the 12 weeks ending 22 June 2014, show market growth bouncing back to 2.8% from last period’s historic low of 1.7%.

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Merger Between Walhorn and Arla Approved by Competition Authorities

    Merger Between Walhorn and Arla Approved by Competition Authorities

The merger between dairy co-opertives EGM Walhorn and Arla Foods has been approved by the relevant competition authorities. The merger is set to take effect on August 1st 2014. With

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UK Dairy Industry Launches ‘Leading the Way’

    UK Dairy Industry Launches ‘Leading the Way’

Dairy industry leaders and politicians have launched ‘Leading the Way’, the UK dairy industry’s sustainable growth plan. The ‘Leading the Way’ plan states that an estimated 2.5 per cent annual

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New Brewery and Head Office Site For Daniel Thwaites

    New Brewery and Head Office Site For Daniel Thwaites

UK regional brewer and pub operator Daniel Thwaites has purchased a site to house its new brewery, head office and a visitor centre, and will be looking to secure planning

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Coca-Cola HBC to Delist From New York Stock Exchange

    Coca-Cola HBC to Delist From New York Stock Exchange

Coca-Cola HBC is applying for the delisting of its American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), the termination of its ADR programme, and the deregistration and

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Optimal Cleaning Solutions From JEROS

    Optimal Cleaning Solutions From JEROS

Danish company JEROS has accumulated more than 50 years of experience and expertise in manufacturing industrial washing systems for the food industry, including dish washers, utensil washers, crate washers, conveyor

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Arla Achieves Operational Excellence With OmPrompt

    Arla Achieves Operational Excellence With OmPrompt

As the UK’s number one dairy company and the leading provider of butter, spreads and cheese, Arla Foods makes 4,000 store deliveries a day to food retailers and foodservice customers

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AIC Plastic Pallets Supplying the Irish Market

    AIC Plastic Pallets Supplying the Irish Market

AIC Plastic Pallets Ltd has been supplying hygienic plastic pallets to the Irish market since the early ‘90’s. Since then the plastic pallet in the Irish manufacturing process has become

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New HEAVY DUTY Pallet Range From Beercraft UK

    New HEAVY DUTY Pallet Range From Beercraft UK

Beecraft UK, based at Wembley in Middlesex, is a well established distributor of plastic pallets and recently released a new HEAVY DUTY range featuring sizes 1200 x 800 and 1200

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Coca-Cola Enterprises Invests €16 Million in New Preform Line in France

    Coca-Cola Enterprises Invests €16 Million in New Preform Line in France

Coca-Cola Enterprises has launched a new €16 million preform injection line at its site in Grigny, France. With this new line, the site will now be able to produce its

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Carlsberg Launches New Global Campaign For Somersby Cider

    Carlsberg Launches New Global Campaign For Somersby Cider

If 2013 was the year of the #selfie, then 2014 is set to be the year of the #friendsie, according to leading cider brand, Somersby. A new marketing campaign that

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AAK Completes Belgian Acquisition

    AAK Completes Belgian Acquisition

AAK, the specialist vegetable oils refiner, has completed its acquisition of the oils and fats business of CSM Benelux in Merksem, Belgium. The company is a leading bakery fats supplier

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Nestlé Takes First Step Towards Made-to-measure Vitamins

    Nestlé Takes First Step Towards Made-to-measure Vitamins

The Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences (NIHS) and Waters Corporation – a company based in Massachusetts, USA – have begun working together on a groundbreaking new research project which could

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BARTEC BENKE – The Global Technology Leader in Milk-Measurement and Sampling Systems

    BARTEC BENKE – The Global Technology Leader in Milk-Measurement and Sampling Systems

Founded in 1936, Bavaria-based BARTEC BENKE is the global technological leader in milk measurement and sampling systems, both on-truck and within the dairy. BARTEC BENKE’s TIGER milk collection and sampling

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Mixing Solutions For the Dairy Industry

    Mixing Solutions For the Dairy Industry

SPX provides leading service and process solutions to the dairy industry. Included within its innovative technologies is the SPX APV ‘Flex-Mix’ series, consisting of seven mixers to meet very broad

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New or Reconditioned IBC’s?

    New or Reconditioned IBC’s?

Manufacturing since 1947, at two ISO certified factories at Bray in Ireland, Industrial Packaging Ltd stock a complete range of New IBC’s from 600L-1200L including EX area, black and white

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NIR Moisture Measurement Solutions From NDC Technologies

    NIR Moisture Measurement Solutions From NDC Technologies

Near infrared technology is well established as a favoured technique in many applications in dairy processes, both in production and laboratory environments. NDC Technologies provides in-process NIR moisture measurement solutions

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LycoRed announces appointment of Rony Patishi-Chillim New CEO

Appointment underscores Adama’s commitment to LycoRed as nutrition leader   LycoRed, Israel, part of Adama Group, announces the appointment of Rony Patishi-Chillim as its new CEO, effective October 1, 2014.

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Ben & Jerry’s turns to ‘carbon insetting’ to reduce emissions

    Ben & Jerry’s turns to ‘carbon insetting’ to reduce emissions

Values-led ice cream brand Ben & Jerry’s is stepping up its efforts to reduce CO2 emissions with a move towards ‘carbon insetting’ to improve supply chain resilience and resource efficiency.

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Corvaglia Mexico: 10-year anniversary

    Corvaglia Mexico: 10-year anniversary

Eschlikon, June 2014 The mexican subsidiary of the swiss Corvaglia Holding AG celebrates its ten years of existence. Back, on July 24 2004 at 14:47 hours the first closure left

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RadTech Europe Announces Food Seminar

    RadTech Europe Announces Food Seminar

Covering UV-Printing for Food Packaging   The Hague, Netherlands, June 27,  2014 – RadTech Europe (RTE) announces they are hosting an international food seminar on ‘UV-Printing for Food Packaging.’ This

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Olympus Automation Inspires Sustainability with Cycle Ride Sponsorship

    Olympus Automation Inspires Sustainability with Cycle Ride Sponsorship

When Olympus Automation (OAL) became the lead sponsor for “Coast to Coast in a Day 2014” we didn’t anticipate the enthusiastic response from our employees and customers alike. Originally wanting

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Coca-Cola Enterprises and Marks & Spencer join the 2014 PPMA Show Seminar Programme

    Coca-Cola Enterprises and Marks & Spencer join the 2014 PPMA Show Seminar Programme

30 September – 2nd October 2014, NEC, Birmingham  The PPMA Show, the UK’s premier free-to-attend complete production line event for

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Irish Dairy Board Completes $80 million US Food Ingredients Investment Programme

    Irish Dairy Board Completes $80 million US Food Ingredients Investment Programme

The Irish Dairy Board (IDB) has opened a new cheese manufacturing facility at its Thiel Cheese & Ingredients (Thiel) operation

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Meat Packaging Technologies to Create Opportunities For European Meat Sector

    Meat Packaging Technologies to Create Opportunities For European Meat Sector

New packaging and processing technologies are extending the shelf-life of fresh and processed meat. According to a new report from

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Coca-Cola Life to Launch in Sweden

    Coca-Cola Life to Launch in Sweden

Coca-Cola in Sweden has announced that Coca-Cola life® will be available in Sweden later this year. Sweden will be one of

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Label Printing as Easy as ‘One, Two, Three’

    Label Printing as Easy as ‘One, Two, Three’

It shouldn’t take an IT specialist and professional designer to print full-colour product labels. Especially small businesses, which don’t have

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Defra to fund study on recycling of flexible packaging

    Defra to fund study on recycling of flexible packaging

LRS Consultancy in partnership with Enval, SITA UK, Nestlé UK & Ireland, Coca-Cola Enterprises and Tesco have received funding to

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Nestlé Inaugurates Chocolate Factory in Egypt

    Nestlé Inaugurates Chocolate Factory in Egypt

Nestlé has inaugurated its first-ever confectionery plant in Egypt. The new extrusion line at the company’s existing dry goods factory

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Price and Provenance Form Framework for Impressive Growth in UK Poultry Market

    Price and Provenance Form Framework for Impressive Growth in UK Poultry Market

According to ‘Poultry 2014’, a new Market Report from market intelligence provider Key Note, the retail market for poultry in the

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New Insights Help Industry Target Household Food Waste Reduction

    New Insights Help Industry Target Household Food Waste Reduction

New insights on how to reduce household food waste can help industry target their activity and enable their customers to

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New Finance Director For Tate & Lyle

    New Finance Director For Tate & Lyle

Tate & Lyle has appointed Nick Hampton as Chief Financial Officer with effect from 1 September 2014. Tim Lodge, Chief

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Salt of the Earth Going Nuts with Sodium Reduction

    Salt of the Earth Going Nuts with Sodium Reduction

Now, Soccer Fans Can Enjoy Salted Nuts without Guilt Atlit, Israel — June 25, 2014, New market research conducted by

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Transit Buses on the Road to Sustainability with Thermo King Athenia E-Series Air-Conditioning Modules

    Transit Buses on the Road to Sustainability with Thermo King Athenia E-Series Air-Conditioning Modules

Brussels, Belgium, June 24, 2014 – Traffic congestion, due to growing urbanization, strains cities and raises environmental concerns. The need

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Taura Natural Ingredients appoints Phoenix as distributor for Gourmet Series

    Taura Natural Ingredients appoints Phoenix  as distributor for Gourmet Series

Taura Natural Ingredients has named France-based Phoenix Ingredients as European distributor for its Gourmet Series fruit pieces for the artisanal

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Putting a Footprint in Your Mouth – The Importance of Measuring Environmental Performance

    Putting a Footprint in Your Mouth – The Importance of Measuring Environmental Performance

By Hugh Jones, Managing Director, Advisory Services, Carbon Trust You can’t taste a carbon footprint. Carbon dioxide is odourless and

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Nestlé Unveils the “Alliance For YOUth” in Europe

    Nestlé Unveils the “Alliance For YOUth” in Europe

Nestlé is building on the success of its “Nestlé Needs YOUth” employment initiative – designed to help tackle youth unemployment

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Is it Game, Set and Match For Traditional Cream at Wimbledon?

    Is it Game, Set and Match For Traditional Cream at Wimbledon?

As Wimbledon begins, many Brits will be enjoying an obligatory bowl of strawberries and cream, but according to new research

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Action on Sugar Presents Childhood Obesity Plan

    Action on Sugar Presents Childhood Obesity Plan

Campaign group, Action on Sugar, which was called upon by the Coalition Government to address the childhood obesity crisis, has

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McDonald’s Announces Further UK Expansion

    McDonald’s Announces Further UK Expansion

McDonald’s UK plans to create 8,000 new jobs across the UK over the next three years, taking its UK workforce

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Premier Foods Completes Logistics Consolidation

    Premier Foods Completes Logistics Consolidation

Premier Foods has completed the previously announced consolidation of its third party operated grocery logistics sites from three National Distribution

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The Consumer Goods Industry Strengthens Commitment to Improving Health and Wellness for Consumers Worldwide

    The Consumer Goods Industry Strengthens Commitment to Improving Health and Wellness for Consumers Worldwide

Recognising the importance of health and wellness to consumers, The Consumer Goods Forum’s Board of Directors has reaffirmed its commitment

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Smurfit Kappa Set to Open The Future

    Smurfit Kappa Set to Open The Future

Smurfit Kappa, one of the world’s leading packaging firms, has launched a new global brand strategy across 32 countries, which is

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Avure Expands to New Location Following Record Sales

    Avure Expands to New Location Following Record Sales

US-based Avure Technologies is experiencing unprecedented growth and interest in the food market for High Pressure Processing (HPP) as companies

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Naturex launches new cherry-based antioxidants and curing enhancers for the meat & poultry sector

    Naturex launches new cherry-based antioxidants and curing enhancers for the meat & poultry sector

Avignon, 23 June 2014 – Naturex has expanded its portfolio of natural solutions for shelf life extension with a range

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Premier Foods Forms Powdered Beverages and Desserts Joint Venture

    Premier Foods Forms Powdered Beverages and Desserts Joint Venture

In line with its strategy to maximise value and efficiencies from its grocery infrastructure, Premier Foods has reached a conditional

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Nestlé Opens Third R&D Centre in China

    Nestlé Opens Third R&D Centre in China

Nestlé has officially opened its latest Chinese research and development centre in Dongguan, in Guangdong province. The centre is a

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Senior Management Changes at Fonterra

    Senior Management Changes at Fonterra

New Zealand dairy group Fonterra has appointed Kelvin Wickham, who is currently President Greater China, to the newly created position

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World’s Largest Dairy Spray Dryer Completes its First Season

    World’s Largest Dairy Spray Dryer Completes its First Season

With the end of the milking season in New Zealand, the world’s largest dairy spray dryer has successfully completed its

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PureCircle Appoints Jordi Ferre to Newly Created Post of Chief Operating Officer

    PureCircle Appoints Jordi Ferre to Newly Created Post of Chief Operating Officer

PureCircle, the leading global producer and marketer of high-purity stevia products, has appointed Jordi Ferre to the newly established position

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Verner Wheelock students get top marks from RSPH

    Verner Wheelock students get top marks from RSPH

Not one, not two, but three students trained by leading food industry training company, Verner Wheelock Associates, have achieved the

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Blackthorn Celebrates its Somerset Roots With a Fresh New Look

    Blackthorn Celebrates its Somerset Roots With a Fresh New Look

The Shepton Mallet Cider Mill has announced that one of the country’s best loved ciders, Blackthorn, will undergo a brand

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Crabbie’s Enters RTD Category

    Crabbie’s Enters RTD Category

United Wine Merchants has announced new Crabbie’s innovation that will position this new range for the first time in the

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FSA Urges the Public to Stop Washing Raw Chicken

    FSA Urges the Public to Stop Washing Raw Chicken

The Food Standards Agency in the UK has issued a call for people to stop washing raw chicken to reduce

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Launch of £12 Million Loan Scheme For Poultry Litter Processing Plants

    Launch of £12 Million Loan Scheme For Poultry Litter Processing Plants

A £12 million loan scheme to support the construction of demonstrator plants to trial new ways of processing poultry litter

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Sensient Flavors Presents New Line of Natural Cherry Flavors

    Sensient Flavors Presents New Line of Natural Cherry Flavors

Sensient Flavors has developed a new line of natural cherry flavors. With Black Cherry, Sweet Attika, Wild Amarena, Sour Morello

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PLUS Logistics Celebrates Successful Launch

    PLUS Logistics Celebrates Successful Launch

A new full service logistics offering from the business behind the hugely successful Palletline network is off to a flying

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