News & Analysis on the Bakery and Snacks Industries
RFID has arrived. Long hailed as the next IT revolution for industry, communicating labels are being forced into place by retailers and legislators alike, leaving manufacturers racing to implement a newborn technology steeped in unknowns, writes...
In the thriving world of snacks the key to success for food developers will be in designing time-positioned, healthy and guilt free indulgences as the consumer becomes more fussy, says a new report from Datamonitor that shows UK snackaholics, far from...
French dairy ingredients firm Ingredia is targeting the growing market for stress management products with a rebranded milk-derived ingredient, said to be more effective than herbals and other supplements currently available.
Opportunities for food manufacturers and ingredients firms are set to burgeon in the UK functional food marketplace with new Mintel research forecasting that the £835 million market will double in the next five years to £1.7 billion. While heart...
Supply chain execution (SCE) solutions provider Manhattan Associates has launched a new integrated approach to help manufacturers manage every aspect of their operation. Everything from warehouse management to global tracing have been included in the...
BioEnvelop Technologies has reported a massive 1,486 per cent increase in sales for the first quarter of fiscal 2005 compared to the same quarter ended 30 April 2003. This underlines the growing importance of the biodegradable films sector, which is...
Food manufacturers are increasingly turning to solutions that combine multiple security elements to protect products against counterfeiting, according to French foil manufacturer Kurz.