News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
In addition to evident best practice in food safety across the food chain, the food industry needs to establish better channels of communication to tackle food recalls and avoid a blow to consumer confidence, conclude the authors of a fresh survey in...
Premier Foods, the company at the centre of the UK's biggest food product recall, said it was confident of suffering little or no financial impact as a result of the food scare as it reported figures for 2004 already affected by the result of a fire...
Sales of the sugar substitute neotame more than quadrupled last year as food and beverage manufacturers searched for low calorie alternatives in the face of rising obesity, said its makers, writes Philippa Nuttall.
Contributing the biggest revenue stream to Givaudan, the flavours unit posted sales of CHF 1.6 billion (€1 billion) sales in 2004, representing stagnant growth on a like-for-like basis in Swiss francs.
InBev is already beginning to see the benefits of last year's merger of Belgian brewer Interbrew and Brazil's AmBev, with volume sales in 2004 growing at more than twice the rate of the global beer market as a whole. And with operations in all of the...
New Zealand dairy co-operative Fonterra has upped its share price offer for Australia's leading dairy company National Foods, trumping a rival bid from San Miguel Corporation (SMC) and gaining the unanimous backing of National Foods' executive board,...
The sale of Chr Hansen's ingredients arm gains pace with reports suggesting the unit could fetch nearly €1 billion ($1.31 billion), writes Lindsey Partos.
The US Centre for Disease Control has helped to create a climate of fear by exaggerating America's obesity crisis, claims a consumer and industry group, as one major cereal producer warns the whole obesity issue is becoming too emotional, reports...
Raised demand for rapeseed oil leads agri-giant ADM to expand crushing facilities in Europe.
Industrial food processing systems provider FMC FoodTech has launched a new batter mixer that offers greater capacity, easy maintenance and improved hygiene resulting in increased productivity and lower costs.
Cases of the harmful food pathogen E coli in beef dropped by over 40 per cent last year, according to a study published last week by the USDA.
One of Asia's biggest food retailers, Dairy Farm, has this week announced strong sales growth for 2004 helped by the recovery of many local economies and a raft of recent acquisitions. But increasing competition from European and US retailers looking...
Strong sales of ketchup helped keep sales buoyant at Heinz during the third quarter, though a write-down of its investment in Hain Celestial provoked a 25 percent drop in earnings.