Despite today's overarching trend towards new and exotic flavours, when it comes to crisps, traditional flavours like cheese & onion and ready salted are best, generating strong sales and bolstering growth for snack makers despite the challenging...
The Obama effect and concerns about food safety could help boost US brands overseas which appear to be falling out of favor, according to a new report from Euromonitor International.
The founder of American snacks company Guiltless Gourmet has announced the launch of a new company called Right Brothers Foods in Austin, Texas, which aims to tap into demand for healthy snack foods.
PepsiCo today announced it will split its
operations into three separate units in a move to better
harness the growth of its snack and beverage businesses.
Rexam expects to further raise the price of its beverage cans in
the coming year, the packaging giant said yesterday in its second
quarter financial report.
Heineken announced yesterday that it has doubled its forecast for
net profit growth, with strong sales in emerging markets offsetting
slow growth rates in Europe and the US.
Dutch company CSM will continue to concentrate
its manufacturing in the US by transferring the production of
a subsidiary to other CSM North America plants.
Premium crisp manufacturer Kettle Chips has launched a new variety
of an old classic to tempt lovers of the traditional best-selling
cheese & onion flavour.
The demonisation of spinach following last week's E.coli outbreak
could give salad-dodgers the excuse they have been looking for to
skimp on their recommended five to nine portions of fruit and veg a
day. Without communication...
Snacks including sweets and potato chips will not be sold in school
canteens throughout Russia from September of this year, under a new
initiative announced by the country's chief sanitary doctor,
Gennady Onischenko.
Cocoa manufacturing giant Barry Callebaut has underlined the
importance of the US in its global portfolio with the opening of a
new $20 million facility.
China is on its way to becoming the largest exporter of tomato
paste in the world as Xinjiang Production and Construction
Corporation (XPCC) increases its production capacity for tomato
paste to 500 million tons a year, writes Hridyesh...
CSM Bakery Supplies North America plans to close three production
sites and to restructure a further two facilities, the Dutch
ingredients firm announced today.
Rock-Tenn has completed the acquisition of the assets of Gulf
States' Paperboard and Packaging, including 11 folding carton
plants that primarily serve the food packaging, food service and
pharmaceutical and health and beauty...
Finnish crispbread specialist, Vaasan & Vaasan, has revamped
the image of its flagship Finn Crisp brand to take advantage of a
growing market for high fibre and wholegrain snacks in Russia and
lure increasingly health-conscious...
Two US pasta companies have joined forces to try and deal with the
crumbling pasta consumption, mainly blamed on low-carb lifestyles,
that threatens to streamline the whole industry, reports Chris
Mercer.
Good foresight on rising health trends and heavy investment in
premium brands have helped cereal and snack producer Kellogg to a
steady sales and earnings rise for 2004, with North America leading
the way, reports Chris Mercer.
World demand for packaging machinery is projected to rise over 4
per cent a year through 2008 to over $31 billion, according to a
recently published report by Freedonia.
A Californian consumer group in the US has called for beef sold in
the state to carry country-of-origin labels, and claims that
supermarket giant Safeway has been selling unlabelled beef from
Canada, where a feeding practice linked...
Germany's current one-way can deposit system should be scrapped and
replaced with a mixed strategy of reuse and recycling, according to
the Association of European Steel Producers (APEAL). The body
argues that it has the support...
The North American meat market remains as buoyant as ever, despite
animal health scares that have dominated the news for the past few
months. Diet and a lack of public hysteria towards outbreaks of BSE
and Avian flu have been identified...
Dutch retailer Ahold's efforts to streamline its business are
continuing apace, with yesterday's announcement that the US convenience store business
was to be sold followed today by news of a realignment at the
retail headquarters...
German company Weener Plastik Packaging Group has entered into a
strategic alliance with Canada-based CCL Industries, a global
developer and manufacturer of packaging and labelling solutions.
Both businesses believe that the arrangement...
Frantschach has completed the acquisition of an industrial sack
plant near Chicago, USA. The move is designed to consolidate the
firm's position across the Atlantic and open up new opportunities
for the export business in the...
Proposals by the state of California to make it compulsory for
products that might the potential carcinogen acrylamide to carry
warning labels have met with anger from food processors.
Cargill and Riceland Foods have announced their intention to link
up to manufacture, market and sell lecithin products to food,
pharmaceutical, and technical customers.
Finland's Corenso United and Spain's Mandriladora Alpesa have
agreed to intensify co-operation within their respective packaging
operation the two companies have announced.
Spain is set to be the first European country to start producing
Crown Cork & Seal's SuperEnd end for beverage cans, following
its successful launch in a number of other world markets.
The 2003/04 outlook for wheat production in the United States is
very healthy according to the US Department of Agriculture. But
world wheat use is expected to exceed production.
Food Safe, a wholly owned subsidiary of publicly traded Aquentium,
has filed a patent application with the United States Patent and
Trademark Office for its proprietary food sanitisation process.
The debate on the yield superiority of traditional crops over
organic crops is set to continue as a recent study reveals that
corn and soybeans were only minimally reduced when organic
production practices were used instead of conventional...
CSM, the Netherlands-based bakery group, has completed the
acquisition of Carpro, a leading manufacturer of bakery supplies in
the United States. The buy includes all of Carpo's current
production facilities in the US.
Ball, Daiwa Can Company and Mitsui have entered into an exclusive
agreement for the sales and distribution of Daiwa's New Bottle Can
beverage container in North America.
Anyone who has visited the United States will have witnessed the
generous portions that regale the multitude of eateries. But
according to new research to come out of the States, this is in
fact a new phenomenon, and one which has...
Following its recent merger with Barco and Perup-Eskofot, newly
formed Esko-Graphics has concluded a thorough strategic review of
all its product and market activities in the packaging and graphic
arts sector.
Rexam's can operations in both the US and Europe are looking strong
for the year ahead, with the US market recovering from the recent
lull and the European market continuing to show strong growth.
Archer Daniels Midland has announced that as a result of reduced
soybean processing margins in the United States, it will decrease
its soybean crush rates at several manufacturing locations in the
US.
In the US, the Kellogg Co. has announced the recall of 730,000
boxes of Pop-Tarts bakery breakfast snacks. The company warned that
the breakfast pastries may contain eggs that are not listed among
the ingredients - a potential hazard...
US and European biotechnology companies are making concerted
efforts to fight a US state ballot initiative that will require new
labelling standards for genetically-modified foods in the US.
