News & Analysis on the Bakery and Snacks Industries
Plans for EU sugar reform are unfair and would only benefit the biggest producers, according to 10 member states including Slovenia, Hungary and Latvia, as new discussions split opinions in eastern Europe, reports Chris Mercer.
Leprinxol is marketing Petro-Canada's Purity FG food grade speciality fluids and greases in Northern and Northeastern Germany.
Tetra Pak's updated environmental policy, which will come into force 1 January, underlines both the strength of green consumer pressure and the direction in which the packaging industry is moving.
Baugur, the Iceland-based retail group, has made a new proposal for Britain's Big Food Group (BFG), a move that would almost certainly mean the break up of the group but strengthen its main supermarket banner, Iceland, writes Chris Jones.
George Gordon Associates has launched the AccuWrap FG-2000W, a seven-axis, servo-controlled, food-grade wrapper with wash-down capability.
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions provider SSI has integrated Vecta's sales intelligence software with its TROPOS ERP solution to include supply chain, production and distribution management tools for food and beverage production.
A new bakery capable of producing up to 70 million bread loaves per year is set to be built in Moscow by Swedish firm Cerealia to serve the growing convenience food industry with cosmopolitan products - and by-pass customs duties, reports Chris Mercer.