News & Analysis on the Bakery and Snacks Industries
Continued demand for natural food colors has helped to drive record top and bottom line growth in the first quarter for colors, flavors and fragrances giant Sensient Technologies.
Sonoco-Alcore said higher raw material costs were to blame as it announced its European paperboard prices would increase next month - the second rise since the start of the year.
The European Commission has pledged to recover millions of Euros from Spain and the Netherlands for wrongly claiming subsidies on food packaging.
The Northern European dimension of an industry led EU initiative to restrict snack advertising to children has been further strengthened by the decision of snacks maker Chips Group to sign up, said the European Snacks Association (ESA).
Sharp differences have emerged between a plastics trade group and a local government body over how to solve the growing shortage of recycled plastics in the UK supply chain.
The administrator of Morrisons supplier Woodhead Bakery has sold the business to two separate buyers, after splitting it into two parts.