Campbell Soup Company is hoping a $160m refurbishment to its Pepperidge Farm bakery in Richmond, Utah, will tip its Goldfish cracker brand over the billion-dollar sales mark.
Despite high inflation, the majority of consumers are happy to pay more for products with a sustainable backstory. So there’s money to be made from environmental credentials, which makes falling into the greenwashing trap a bigger temptation than ever...
New research suggests food wastage – much of which comes from people simply not eating what they buy – is a bigger problem than previously thought, which if cut in half would help remove around one-quarter of total greenhouse gas emissions from the global...
The Oreo maker has launched Harmony Ambition 2030, the next chapter of its European sustainable wheat sourcing programme. Bees play a key role, and for each pack of biscuits sold, consumers will have the opportunity to contribute towards ‘a beautiful...
Food and beverage companies are under increasing pressure to measure, reduce, and accurately report their social and environmental impact, with the SEC recently outlining proposals* that would require all registrants to disclose their scope three greenhouse...
The snack giant has laid out its impressive Positive Agriculture agenda, designed to significantly shrink its carbon footprint, provide readily-available access to food for global population and improve the livelihoods for more people.
Ingredients supplier Kerry Group has unveiled an ambitious sustainability strategy including a commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 33% by 2030 and achieve net zero before 2050. It is also exploring those sectors such as immunity and food...
Impact Snacks is rolling out its flagship range of sustainable superfood bars – packed in 100% home compostable bioplastic – following a ‘much-buzzed-about’ Kickstarter campaign that surpassed its goal of $20,000 in just 13 hours.
According to the United Nations (UN), climate change threatens our food supply ‘through increasing temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, and greater frequency of some extreme events’. And there’s no time to lose.
PepsiCo posted better-than-expected fourth quarter results, primarily driven by its Frito-Lay North American unit, which delivered its fastest rate of growth since 2013, according to CEO Ramon Laguarta.
An increasing number of commercial organic operations could be contributing to higher levels of greenhouse gases coming from each acre of farm land, say researchers who warn that organic food production needs to take the right direction on emissions.
Newsweek’s list of the US’s most sustainable companies names packaging firms like Ball, beverage producers like Coca-Cola, and food manufacturers such as General Mills rank among the green giants.
International Paper has published its 2012 Sustainability Report which reveals strong progress against the packaging company’s 10-year environmental goals, which includes reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and water pollution.
Food processors will be able to better calculate the carbon footprint of their manufacturing and supply chain thanks to revamped eco-guidelines, said the British Standards Institute (BSI).
Analysing the carbon footprint of Kingsmill loaves has helped Allied Bakeries squeeze out additional cost savings that it would not have extracted through traditional continuous improvement techniques, its operations director has claimed.
A pledge to cut its US greenhouse gas emissions 20 per cent per dollar sales between 2006 and 2012 has been made by Ecolab, a provider of cleaning, food safety and health protection products.
Minimising food packaging, boosting processing efficiency and avoiding food waste could make powerful contributions to reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the US food industry, according to a new report.
Energy and environment ministers met this week in London to discuss
the challenge of creating lower carbon energy systems to combat
climate change over the next 50 years.
The UK's paper sector has passed the second milestone target of its
Climate Change Agreement (CCA), according to the Confederation of
Paper Industries (CPI).
A consortium of 48 European companies and organisations has been
formed to launch a cooperative research and development initiative
aimed at finding new steel production processes that would
drastically reduce CO2 and other greenhouse...
The European Fluorocarbons Technical Committee (EFCTC) has welcome
last week's decision by the EU to reduce fluorinated gases, but has
sounded a note of caution.
Honeywell is building a new facility in China to produce
'environmentally friendlier' HFC refrigerants, just as Europe
pledges to reduce these types of gases.
The European Council agreed last Friday to reduce emissions of
fluorinated greenhouse gases, a decision that will affect food
processors and firms involved in refrigeration.
