Hovis boss quits amid Premier Foods’ uphill bread struggle
The managing director of Premier Foods’ bakery arm tasked with driving the struggling bread business forward has resigned and will leave the firm early 2013.
Archives for November 30, 2012
Sun Chemical Europe to increase prices
Sun Chemical Europe has announced a price increase across all products from 1 January 2013 due to high raw material costs.
Guar gum buyers aren’t buying, sellers aren’t selling: Industry expert
Guar gum prices have dropped a long way from peaks of $20 to $25 a kilo – but there is now a standoff between buyers and sellers, according to hydrocolloids industry expert Dennis Seisun.
Who can win an EU immunity claim? Yeast beta-glucan can?
German yeast specialist Leiber possesses the only immune health claim in the EU assessment system at the moment. But why should its beta-glucan yeast succeed when it has already failed once?
Post Holdings suffers the ‘unfavorable commodity cost effect’
Unfavorable grain costs pressed full year earnings for Post Holdings, despite a sales surge in the fourth quarter, it said.
Smilde Bakery to close plant and shift production
Smilde Bakery plans to close its Mijdrecht factory in the Netherlands and will expand production at its Edam plant to enable it to grow share in international markets.
Dispatches from Emballage 2012
Packaging constantly changing to respond to lifestyles, says INCPEN
Packaging is like a mirror to social developments, fashions and trends which enables constant response to innovation, according to INCPEN.
Flaxseed shows blood pressure-lowering potential: Study
Daily consumption of flaxseed-fortified bakery products may reduce blood pressure levels in patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD), suggests new data presented at the November American Heart Association 2012 Scientific Sessions.
Sunwin to broaden stevia presence through Chinese private label bakery
Sunwin Stevia International hopes to penetrate the Chinese bakery sector further by targeting the private label segment with a range of stevia formulations.