News & Analysis on the Bakery and Snacks Industries
Norwegian group Orkla has expressed interest in takeovers beyond its $1.76 billion bid for aluminium packaging manufacturer Elkem after it reported a stronger than expected 25 per cent rise in fourth quarter-core earnings.
RPC plans to showcase its latest innovations in rigid plastics packaging, including an alternative to the tin can for food applications, at Interpack 2005.
The cash-stricken Krispy Kreme doughnut company is to shed a quarter of its workforce in an attempt to overhaul losses as over-expansion and a lack of new products to appease health-conscious consumers threaten to send the firm under, reports Chris...
Nova Chemicals is to expand its Arcel mouldable foam resin manufacturing capacity to 100 million pounds per year by the end of 2006 to meet soaring demand.
Bidding for the food ingredients business at Degussa, Germany's third largest chemicals group, could be underway by the start of the second quarter.
Tate & Lyle's Splenda brand in the news again this week as McNeil Nutritionals, the table-top supplier of this increasingly popular sweetener, takes the US sugar industry to court.