3M hygiene monitoring system verifies surface cleanliness
3M Food Safety has launched an updated hygiene monitoring and management system.
Archives for July 20, 2016
Top five factors when consumers buy ice cream
Using worldwide consumer surveys, GNT Group, the Dutch global provider of food coloring concentrates, has put together the top five factors consumers are interested in when it comes to buying ice cream.
Atria’s profits rise despite tough competition
Scandinavian meat processor Atria has seen pre-tax profits rise marginally, according to half-year trading figures posted on 21 July.
Survey results
Brexit Poll: Confectionery industry outlook negative after Brexit vote
The majority of ConfectioneryNews readers polled expect the UK’s exit from the European Union will hit sales volumes for their businesses and lead to price hikes for cocoa and sugar.
Mondelēz 'in talks' to acquire Cadbury biscuits license from Burton’s
Mondelēz International has allegedly approached UK’s Burton’s Biscuits for its license to produce Cadbury biscuits, according to reports.
Chinese firms boosting nutrition market share by shopping overseas
Strong demand for healthcare products and growing recognition of overseas brands is driving more Chinese companies to find overseas corporate targets, according to market intelligence provider CCM.
Australia
Canny brands should use strategic smarts to topple top tipple
When it comes to Australia’s overall liqueur consumption, one brand towers over all the others: Baileys Irish Cream, which is more than three times more popular than second-placed Kahlúa, and has nearly the same number of drinkers as the seven other most...
No accounting for taste? Scientists get one step closer to rating food palatability
New insights into the science of taste and how changes in taste receptors determine the way we perceive food have been gathered in a study carried out by Japanese researchers.
Meat disputes hold up TTIP deal
Disagreements about the meat sector are holding up a deal between the EU and the US on a comprehensive Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership (TTIP).
PHE: E. coli O157 outbreak ‘subsiding’; source still unconfirmed
Public Health England (PHE), the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), the Food Standards Agency (FSA) and the European Commission are involved in attempting to identify the source of an E. coli O157 outbreak in the UK.
Food brands not quite in tune with consumers’ demands around trust and ethics
KPMG and the Consumer Goods Forum recently polled 400 consumer goods retail and manufacturing executives from 27 countries. They’ve pulled the data for the 34% of respondents that were from the food and drink sector for FoodNavigator to analyse.