News & Analysis on the Bakery and Snacks Industries
Foreign companies' profits in China may have increased rapidly in the past four years, but they remain modest in comparison with other countries with smaller markets and slower growth, according to a surprising new report. Anthony Fletcher reports.
An illegal red colour identified in a popular food oil prompts a recall in the UK, the latest in a series of similar moves by the country's food watchdog.
Dutch firm Arla Foods Ingredients launches a new milk protein onto the competitive dairy protein market, positioned as an alternative to caseinates in salami formulations.
Driving research in the area of chemical contaminants, nutrition and microbiology the UK's food agency is calling for scientists to fulfill a batch of new research requirements.
Last week Alcoa began commercial production of Vino-Lok, its glass-on-glass wine closure system. Has upmarket wine finally found an alternative to the screw cap? asks Kim Hunter Gordon.
Japanese aspartame supplier Ajinomoto will ramp up production of its sweetener on the back of growing demand for low calorie food and beverages, the Tokyo-based firm announced this week.
Alcoa Closure Systems International has begun commercial production of Vino-Lok, its 'glass on glass' closure system for wine bottles that it developed as an alternative to corks and synthetic stoppers.
Plastic packaging firm RPC has overcome sharp rises in polypropylene and polystyrene prices to report a 9 per cent rise in interim pre-tax profit to £12.4 million.