UK frozen food retailer Iceland Foods has reported a 14% increase in full-year profits as it reported a solid increase in sales despite fierce competition. Iceland booked net profit before tax of GBP147.5m (US$229.8m) for the 53 weeks to ...
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The Australian food industry has recently claimed substantial progress for its self-regulatory measures aimed at restricting children's exposure to advertising of foods high in salt, sugar and fat. Health campaigners are less impressed. Ben ...
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Marks and Spencer's food business will continue to prosper, the UK retailer's chief executive said today (10 July), despite the head of the division being moved to lead its under-pressure non-food arm. Marc Bolland told just-food the ...
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Swiss food company Nestlé's $11.85bn deal to acquire Pfizer's infant nutrition business has received approval from the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, a move which brings the company closer to completing the acquisition. ...
Tags: infant nutrition business, anti-trust bodies, baby food market
Exopack has established a new manufacturing center of excellence for its pet food business in Spartanburg, South Carolina, in a bid to sustain its position in the development and manufacture of packaging solutions for the pet food market. ...
Tags: Pet Food Packaging, Pet Food, Food Packaging
US-based industrial and food applications equipment firm Avure would open a new facility for producing 50 HPP systems annually, close to its headquarters at Franklin, Tennessee by the end of the year. According to the firm, it is ...
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Ehrmann USA has announced that it has expanded the retail distribution of its All Natural Bavarian Lowfat Yogurt in the US by adding more than 80 Wegmans Food Market stores along the East Coast. According to the company,the expansion will ...
Tags: lowfat yogurt, healthy food, all natural
Campbell Soup has completed the acquisition of Bolthouse Farms, a US-based food and beverage company, from private equity firm Madison Dearborn Partners in an all cash deal of $1.55bn. The acquisition is a part of the company's strategy ...
UK-based Mettler Toledo has introduced InspireX R40LF-800, a high-speed X-ray system which identifies foreign objects and detects shape defects in processed formed foods. According to the company, the new system has been developed to ...
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Avery Dennison is introducing a new pressure-sensitive label for meat packaging applications which it claims will withstand the vacuum-shrink process without wrinkling The self-adhesive label manufacturer said that the new label will ...
Kellogg is to team up with Singapore agribusiness giant Wilmar International to manufacture and sell cereal and snacks in China. The US company said the venture would look to tap into growing cereal consumption and the "large growth ...
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The Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Association (PMMI) has released this month a report “Bakery and Snacks — Market Assessment 2012.” The report - available here for PMMI members - details the effects of changing ...
Tags: market view, PACKING MACHINE
UK frozen food manufacturer Iglo Group has booked an increase in first-half profits but warned it expects markets in the second half of the year to remain "challenging". EBITDA in the six-month period climbed 12.8% to GBP180.3m ...
Tags: frozen food, snacking, takeaway style, fish, poultry, vegetables
Silgan,a supplier of rigid packaging for consumer goods products,has entered into an agreement to buy Rexam's plastic thermoformed food business for$250m. Rexam's plastic thermoformed food business provides thermoformed packaging ...
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Ella's Kitchen,which manufactures premium foods for pre-school children,has entered the baby breakfast cereal category in the UK. The company has launched a range of cereals that it is billing as"healthy"and"fun".These are certainly ...
Tags: pre-school children, premium foods, baby breakfast cereal category