CSM spears bakery ingredients
Dutch bakery ingredients firm CSM continues to focus on core business, clearing the sale of its sugar confectionery unit Malaco Leaf to investment companies Nordic Capital and CVC Capital Partners.
Archives for April 28, 2005
Over-consumption is bleeding the earth dry
A new report argues that over-consumption is profoundly affecting the global supply of water, threatening food production in the future, writes Anthony Fletcher.
Tough sugar reform inevitable as EU loses appeal at WTO
Moves to reform the European sugar regime will accelerate after the EU loses its appeal against a World Trade Organisation decision that its handouts to sugar farmers are illegal, reports Lindsey Partos.
Novozymes: food enzymes rise above industry pace for Q1
Food enzymes contribute a quarter of sales revenue to the overall enzyme business in the first quarter, says Danish firm Novozymes, marking a one per cent rise in contribution on the previous year, writes Lindsey Partos.
New snack flavours capture Russian consumers
Young Russian snacks maker Sibirsky Bereg appears to have captured consumers' imagination with an array of experimental flavours and products, overtaking PepsiCo's Lay's brand in market share and growing by up to 50 per cent annually, reports Angela...