News & Analysis on the Bakery and Snacks Industries
An agressive policy of acquisitions and a broadening of the business into prepared foods, foodservice and sepciality ingredients contributed to a strong rise in first half sales and profits at Ireland's Kerry group.
Cadbury Nigeria, the confectioner and drinks maker, has hit out at allegations by Nigerian regulators that it imported chocolate labelled with deliberately misleading safety and quality information.
In the US, Spray Dynamics, the Missouri-based worldwide leader in liquid and dry coating equipment has purchased CMS (Coating Machinery Systems), a manufacturer of continuous and batch coating systems, from Vector Corporation of Marion, Iowa.
Hormel Foods, a multinational manufacturer of food, meat and poultry products, has said it will complete the transformation of its Illinois, US, plant from a pig slaughter operation to a value-added product processing facility.
Ball, the multinational food and beverage packaging provider, has said it is investing approximately $43 million (€43.3m) to expand its existing Milwaukee metal beverage container plant to install a new, high-speed food can line and build a...
The Food and Drink Federation has come out in support of the British Retail Consortium's warning of the dangers of setting unrealistic targets forrecycling of packaging, ahead of today's vote in the European Parliament.
Thai Industrial Gases, a division of the worldwide BOC gas processing company, has established spiral freezer manufacturing capabilities to serve Asian food processors.