News & Analysis on the Bakery and Snacks Industries
From today the plastics packing industry will be able to give more consistent prices to buyers if they are able to successfully hedge their bets on the London Metal Exchange (LME)against volatile polymer prices, reports Ahmed ElAmin.
Acquisition-hungry Cargill has announced it will acquire an oilseed crushing, refining and bottling company in Romania.
The European Parliament voted yesterday to radically modify the proposed regulation on nutrition and health claims so that food companies do not need to gain prior authorization for claims, nor subject their healtlh products to nutrient profiling,...
A new report from market analyst Datamonitor reveals that UK consumers are continuing to abandon traditional sit down family meals in favour of snacks.
Worldwide sales of nanotechnology products to the food and beverage packaging sector jumped to US$860m (€687.5m) in 2004 from US$150m (€120m) in 2002, according to a new study by consultant Helmut Kaiser.
The glycaemic index (GI) is emerging as a new weight loss regime, despite the belief of some nutritionists that there is not enough science to demonstrate it can effectively control weight, writes Lorraine Heller.
A whey protein additive that keeps nutritional bars soft could help food makers break into what is a lucrative and highly innovative market, writes Anthony Fletcher.