Finnish meat processor Atria has gained the approval of Swedish Competition and Consumer Authority to complete the €18m acquisition of poultry firm Lagerberg. The competition authorities have approved the transaction without any ...
Tags: Atria, Lagerberg, Acquisition, Consumer Authority, Competition Authorities
Somma Food Group has launched a partnership with the New York City Public School System in offering Chickentopiatm Drumstix in over 1,700 of their schools. First served in December, Chickentopiatm Drumstix are served to New York City's ...
New Zealand poultry producer Tegel is predicted to soon list on the New Zealand Exchange and the Australian Securities Exchange. Tegel producers both chicken and turkey products and has four major processing facilities located across ...
Finnish food company Atria is entering Swedish poultry business by acquiring Lagerberg i Norjeby (Lagerbergs). The financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed. Through this deal, the company is purchasing the entire share ...
Tags: Atria, Swedish Poultry, Aquisition
Australian agrifood company TasFoods is planning to acquire North West Tasmanian chicken producer Nichols Poultry for A$12.55m ($8.98m). Under the acquisition terms, TasFoods would purchase Nichols' poultry processing facility, 91 ...
A group of consumers is pledging never to buy Lilydale free-range chickens again after finding out the chickens are fed genetically modified (GM) feed. The issue arose by complaints on social media followed by a response by Lilydale on ...
Tags: Free-range chickens, non-GM food
US-based confectionery company Mondelez International has committed to source 100% cage-free eggs in the US and Canada by 2020 and in Europe by 2025. The commitment comes after years of responsible sourcing and sustainable practices that ...
Tags: cage-free eggs, eggs
South Korea has stalled the imports of US poultry and poultry meat following new cases of bird flu. This ban comes just two months after the Asian country resumed the shipments. However, imports of poultry meat treated with heat are not ...
Tags: US Poultry, Bird Flu
Swiss food company Nestle has committed to use only cage-free eggs for its US food products by 2020. With this decision, the packaged food company has joined companies like Kellogg, McDonalds, Subway and Dunkin' Donuts, who have already ...
Tags: Nestle, cage-free eggs, Food
Blue Sky Family Farms, presented by Egg Innovations, the nation's largest producer of 100% free range and pasture raised eggs, is now available in Natural Grocers in the Midwest, Southwest and Northwest regions. Blue Sky Family Farms ...
Brazilian meat producer JBS has completed the acquisition of European poultry company Moy Park for $1.5bn from Marfrig Global foods, following an approval from the European Union. The deal, which was announced in June, required certain ...
Harrisvaccines has been granted a USDA conditional license for the company’s avian influenza vaccine, RNA. This is the first conditional license for the highly pathogenic avian influenza that swept across the Midwest in the spring of ...
Tags: Harrisvaccines, avian influenza vaccine, SirraVax technology
US-based McDonald’s plans to stop using eggs from chickens raised in cages in the US and Canada over the ten years. This may leave a major impact on the egg industry given that the restaurant chain annually uses two billion eggs in ...
Tags: Cage-Free Eggs, McDonald
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has eased restrictions on Canadian poultry imports as the industry is recovering from the recent bird flu outbreak. Imports of poultry and poultry products from Ontario were banned in April after a ...
Tags: Poultry Imports, hatching eggs
Egg and turkey prices in the US will surge more than expected this year as a result of the severe bird flu outbreak in the country. Figures released by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) show that over 48 million chickens and turkeys ...
Tags: poultry industry, chicken, Egg