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Pecan Deluxe Candy (Europe) QSR inclusions expansion

Pecan Deluxe Candy (Europe) to move to bigger premises

By Jenny Eagle

Pecan Deluxe Candy (Europe) has invested in a €300,000 Yamato multihead check weigher, which can operate up to 100 bags per minute, to meet increasing demand for inclusions in products such as ice cream, desserts, cookies and donuts.

“Fruit ingredients are never there to replace fresh fruit.”

Fruit ingredients shows super European growth

By Nicola Cottam

Food manufacturers have pampered to health-conscious Europeans with a raft of new fruit-based product launches in 2013, with overall fruit ingredient launches up 22% over the preceding year, according to Innova Market Insights.

Europe's bakery sector saw a lot of innovation in 2013, says Innova, with NPD in cookies, on-pack claims and price surges

Dispatches from Bakery Innovation Europe in Munich

Biggest bakery NPD trends in Europe 2013

By Kacey Culliney

One-third of all new bakery launches were sweet biscuits and cookies in 2013, the most popular on-pack claim was ‘no additives’ and the average price of baked goods rose, according to Innova Market Insights.

Report forecasts frozen bread sector promise

Frozen bakery will to soar to $32.5bn by 2018

By Annie-Rose Harrison-Dunn

The global frozen bakery market will reach $32,505.2m by 2018, with the Asia-Pacific market promising the greatest growth, according to new report findings. 

Sales of EPS in packaging and other fields is on the rise.

EPS market to top $19bn by 2018

By Jenni Spinner

Demand for expanded polystyrene (EPS) is trending up, fuelled by food packaging and other industries around the globe.

Lay's would be no. 5 most chosen FMCG brand if Walkers, Sabritas, Margarita and Elma Chips were included

Lay’s is no. 9 most chosen global FMCG brand

By Kacey Culliney

Frito-Lay’s flagship brand Lay’s has a global penetration of 26% and is the ninth most chosen fast-moving-consumer-goods (FMCG) brand in the world, according to Kantar World Panel.

Nutripack snaps up injection moulding business

Nutripack snaps up injection moulding business

By Rod Addy

Paccor Netherlands has sold its injection-moulding foodservice business to Proplast subsidiary Nutripack Benelux for an undisclosed sum, freeing itself up to focus on developing its core foodservice thermoforming capabilities.

Bakery faces identity crisis, says analyst

Bakery faces identity crisis, says analyst

By Oliver Nieburg

The global bakery industry is juggling with both indulgence and healthy trends that have now made their way to Asia, according to an analyst.

JBT FoodTech cuts back as recession bites

JBT FoodTech cuts back as recession bites

By Rory Harrington

JBT Corp has blamed a drop in demand for its decision is to cut 115 jobs in its food processing division and shift some operations out of Europe in a bid to make annual savings of US$9m by the end of next year.

Linpac's Euro stacking container

UK investment helps Linpac expand in Europe

By Helen Glaberson

The expansion of its UK manufacturing facility will allow Linpac Allibert to supply the whole of Europe with its stacking containers for food, industrial and engineering industries.

Novel foods progress may mean removing clones

By Jess Halliday

All is not well down on the novel foods farm. If food innovation in Europe is to thrive anew, MEPs and the Council need to get past the recriminations over the failed talks and remove the troublesome question of cloned foods from the negotiating table.

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