Summertime and the living is easy: Cheez-It and House Wine, along with Cape Cod Potato Chips and Samuel Adams, team up to release limited edition summer-ready snacks to be paired with beverages; Treat Me Sweet Co creates a bespoke range of exotic French...
The North American flour miller and ingredients provider - which also has a footprint in Puerto Rico - has outlined its new Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programme with a renewed focus to help build a more sustainable food system.
IOFI and IFRA, the industry bodies for the flavour and fragrance sector, have launched a new Sustainability Charter. The sectorial approach ‘establishes a framework, sets a bar and raises everybody’, representatives from the two organisations tell us.
During these uncertain times, enhancing shelf life has become more critical than ever to keep precious food resources from going to waste, writes Liz Lalor, assistant marketing manager for Enzymes & Brewing Ingredients at Kerry.
The UK foodservice wholesaler – which supplies everything from baked goods to snacks and Red Tractor accredited and MSC certified foodstuffs – has announced another milestone in its goal to reduce carbon emissions by 30% by 2025.
Lantmännen Unibake has acquired the production assets of Norwegian concern French Bakery Company AS to meet consumer demand for locally-produced products.
Following the global panic buying that surrounded Covid-19, a range of issues – like supply chain robustness, raw material production and consistency – have been brought into sharp focus, says Christoph Boettger, member of the executive board at BENEO.
PepsiCo’s 2019 Sustainability Report reveals the snack giant is on target to reach its goals on reducing sodium, saturated fats and added sugars across its food and beverage portfolios in its key markets, and it is steadily upping the ante with its better-for-you...
Drawing on the experience of nearly 200 years of milling, the UK flour miller has placed sustainability at the heart of its business, keeping quality firmly of utmost importance.
Cargill has reported it has made significant progress in achieving sustainable impact on land use, climate, water, farmer prosperity and human rights in the run up to the UN’s 2030 target.
BakeryandSnacks has enlisted Dirk van Ham, Secretary General of Fedima, on its Editorial Advisory Board, which will enable the site to maintain its position at the coalface of industry-related news, regulations, new product development and technological...
US agri-food giant Cargill is looking to solutions such as mobile money, GPS mapping and digital data collection to improve transparency in its cocoa supply chains in Africa and elsewhere.
Ahead of its release today (May 20), the European Snacks Association (ESA) has welcomed the European Commission’s Farm to Fork Strategy (F2F), but has also cautioned the recommendations to set maximum levels of certain nutrients is not the best way forward.
ZenB and ChicP are sustainable snack brands committed to fighting the good cause; Peacasa is inviting you to take part in the birth of its innovation; and Davina Steel and Good Dee’s capitalise on the at-home baking trend that’s at all-time high.
Multi-national food company has published its 2019 Snacking Made Right Report, highlighting the company’s significant progress towards achieving its 2025 sustainable and mindful snacking goals.
The world has been building a digital reality for years, but now it will really kick in, according to consumer behaviourist Ken Hughes. Market researcher IRI concurs, noting that engaging with consumers will be more important than ever.
Despite the current crisis, Sealpac wants to reassure customers it continues to project manage bespoke, full line site installations, is respond to emergency call outs and can provide quotes for new orders across it product range.
Japanese snack firm Calbee is intensifying its sustainability activities by working on the sustainable procurement of palm oil and attempting to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 30%.
The Association of Plastics Recyclers (APR) has launched an endorsement pogram to promote companies that provide third party certification of Post-Consumer Recycled Plastics (PCR).
Coveris has announced it is investing €850k to switch to a carbon free source of energy at its facility in Egypt, as part of its corporate sustainability ambition.
Snacking – a familiar term that used to represent the habit of junking between meals – is today part of the millennials lifestyle. Noorul Malik, savvy millennial and marketing & communications executive, APAC, SGK Global, looks at how urbanisation,...
Nestlé has signed the European Plastics Pact, to make 100% of its packaging recyclable or reusable and reduce its use of virgin plastics by one third by 2025.
Colpac has expanded its Zest Eco-Packaging Heat Seal range with five products; a square cut sandwich pack, wrap pack, two different sized sandwich packs and a salad pack.
For the sixth consecutive year, baked-goods company Grupo Bimbo topped the Merco ranking of companies with the best corporate responsibility and governance practices in Mexico.
DuPont Nutrition & Biosciences has launched two new emulsifier solutions to help the bakery industry meet consumer demand for friendlier labels and a smaller reducing their carbon footprint.
The supplier to the bakery, patisserie and chocolate industries looks to the next 100 years with an unremitting focus on innovation, health and wellbeing.
DS Smith has opened a Box Manufacturing Plant in Lebanon, Indiana, creating 170 jobs, to meet a growing demand for more sustainable packaging and a reduction of shipping costs across the US.
Sappi Europe has launched recyclable multifunctional packaging for nut and fruit bars, which will be on display at Interpack tradeshow in Dussledorf, Germany in May.
Unilever has launched a recyclable polypropylene (PP) mono-material in Turkey for Knorr dry soup powder, produced at Mondi’s Turkish flexible packaging plant in Kalenobel.
Consumers are demanding more than just indulgence – they want a treat that’s healthy but still tasty; sustainable yet comes with an extended shelf life; is portable and size proportioned; is Instagrammable; and comes with a story or purpose.
Satisfied Snacks is currently 'not courting a major retail listing' it has revealed. However, the innovative start-up, which turns ‘virtually any meal’ into crispy healthy snacks, remains confident in the business case for sustainability.
Upcycling of food ingredients, opportunities for hemp and cannabidiol (CBD), positive impacts of ethical sourcing and foods that promote biodiversity will be discussed at the Sustainable Foods Summit in San Francisco (January 22-23).
Stora Enso is merging its container board business in the Packaging Solutions division with the Consumer Board division to create a Packaging Materials division, effective January 2020.
Constantia Flexibles has opened Constantia Ecoflex Ahmedabad, the world’s first plant designed to produce more sustainable and recyclable flexible packaging in India, focusing on its environmentally-friendly packaging EcoLam.
US better-for-you snack producer Truly Good Foods has released its annual trends report, which highlights the vogue-forward developments it predicts will be big in 2020.
Bunge Loders Croklaan (BLC) will be debuting a 100% sustainable non-hydrogenated shea margarine, specifically designed to create light and crispy baked goods, at this year’s Food Ingredients Europe.
Single-use foodservice packaging is increasingly being defined by the sustainability agenda, creating opportunities for innovative materials and formats that can match the performance of existing pack designs with a lower carbon footprint.
The Mexican bakery giant reported a 3.2% sales growth to 74,965m Mexican pesos ($3.9m) for Q3 2019, due to solid organic growth in all regions in which it operates and record levels of adjusted EBITDA.
Total Corbion PLA (Poly Lactic Acid) has undergone a Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCA) - printed in the Journal of Polymers and the Environment - confirming its low carbon footprint.
