A reputation for quality and efficiency across Europe and Asia have
helped Swiss baker Hiestand to predict it will beat its own
earnings targets for 2004. But the company's biggest challenge is
deciding where to go next, writes...
PepsiCo is now in a prime position to dominate the blossoming
European snacks market, especially the emerging eastern sector,
after US food maker General Mills pulled out of their 12-year-old
joint venture to pay off mounting debts,...
A combination of increasingly fast-living lifestyles and weird and
wonderful flavours is helping Poland, Hungary and the Czech
Republic to emerge as some of the most dynamic savoury snacks
markets in Europe, writes Chris Mercer.
The EU Commission's announcement this week that Germany will be
referred to the European Court of Justice unless it establishes an
effective, simple and non-discriminatory deposit system for
beverage packaging is music to the...
German consumers eat more organic food than their counterparts in
both France and Britain combined, according to a new report from
market analysts Mintel. The German market alone is worth
more than €3.2 billion, but significant future...
Switzerland's sweet and savoury biscuit sector saw a return to
growth in 2003 due entirely to a strong upswing in export sales -
but domestic sales fell for the second year in succession as a
result of cheaper imports from the...
Ball Packaging Europe has developed a new deposit-free beverage can
for the ready-to-drink coffee drinks market. The new coffee cans
are made of 100 per cent recyclable steel, and are being
distributed by convenience stores. Customers...
UK packaging group Rexam has blamed Germany's recycling system for
a dramatic loss of business in the country. The system, which
requires customers to pay a deposit on cans and bottles used only
once, has meant that capacity...
As an army of chemists around the world continues the march towards
replicating in the laboratory the sweetest gifts from nature, a
small group in West Africa is determined to stake a claim in the
process.
A new gelatine replacer from Dutch company DMV International
carried off the gold award for the most innovative new ingredient
on the marketplace, rounding off the first day of the bustling Fi
Europe exhibition that opened its doors...
Lorenz Bahlsen Snack-World has said that it is considering
concentrating the production of one of its speciality products,
Laugengebäck crackers, to its existing factory in Skawina in
Poland.
The organic food industry in Germany continued to grow last year,
despite a nitrofen contamination scandal. The Anuga food exhibition
in Cologne next month will feature thousands of organic food
products which show that there is still...
Custom-designed thermoformed tubs from RPC Bebo Plastik have been
used to launch a new range of children's spreads from leading
German dairy manufacturer Frischli Milchwerke.
Price discounting in Germany and the strength of the Swiss franc
severly reduced exports of biscuits and crackers from Switzerland
to Germany, by far the most important foreign market.
Rexam, a leading consumer packaging company, has reached an
agreement with Belgian brewing giant Interbrew to acquire German
glass container manufacturer Nienburger Glas.
The high cost of labour in the Netherlands has prompted dairy group
Campina to close down one production facility and transfer
production to other sites, including one in Germany where the costs
are much lower.
Experts from European science and consumer organisations have
painted a visionary picture about food production in Europe, using
enzymes and genetically modified ingredients - according to a
report from the Fraunhofer Institute for...
