The National Development and Reform Commission is pestering and probing 60 foreign drug makers regarding the prices at which they sell their wares in China. Scrutiny of the foreign drug sector in China made headlines in June when ...
Tags: Harsh Medicine, Pharma Firms
The infant formula industry is in the spotlight again after the launch of a price-fixing investigation into foreign and domestic milk powder makers and intensified government efforts to consolidate a nationwide hodgepodge of producers. ...
Tags: Dairy Industry, infant formula
UK-based Dairy Crest is planning to expand its milk processing plant at Davidstow, Cornwall, with an investment of £40m. The company plans to use the whey generated during the production of cheese at the Davidstow creamery to ...
Some vintners in Italy last week may have stopped stomping grapes and frantically opened their Chinese dictionaries. The vineyards in the EU's wine-producing regions have 10 days to get the language down pat, so they can respond to a trade ...
Tags: China Probe, EU Wineries
The Chinese government has been busy probing Western firms this week. On Monday, the country announced it would investigate EU wine dumping into the Chinese market, an action that could see prices hiked on imported wine this year. On ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
International infant formula producers in China have announced their plans to lower the prices, a move which comes after the government initiated an investigation into alleged price fixing by foreign firms. Danone said that it will lower ...
Tags: infant formula, baby formula
A second foreign manufacturer of baby formula is planning price cuts amid an investigation by China's top economic planner. Dumex, part of France's Danone group, said Thursday it was preparing a price reduction proposal. On Wednesday, ...
Tags: baby formula, dairy products, milk powder
Wyeth Nutrition, the infant formula company bought by Nestle last year, is cutting prices in China, the first such move since it was one of five foreign infant milk formula companies put under investigation for possible price-fixing. ...
Tags: infant formula, milk powder
Security systems integrator Tyco Integrated Security (TycoIS) has collaborated with Perrigo Nutritionals to develop a theft-resistant infant formula container for The Kroger Company, a retailer in the US. Infant formula company Perrigo ...
About a third of the country's baby formula businesses will be axed, in what experts are calling a major consolidation of the industry. The government has been trying to revive the industry since the 2008 melamine scandal, but consumer ...
Tags: Baby Formula, milk powder
China Mengniu Dairy is set to purchase a 75.3% stake in Yashili International for $1.6bn from its controlling shareholders, Zhang International Investment and CA Dairy Holdings. Yashili is currently one of the largest domestic pediatric ...
Tags: Mengniu Dairy, Yashili
Reusable plastic water bottles may be good for the environment, but a new study shows they might be bad for your health. There's a possibility that the chemical found in plastic water bottles, baby bottles and the lining of many food, ...
Tags: baby bottle, child bottle
Mexico's competition watchdog Cofeco has said that it has accepted a proposal by Nestlé to sell Pfizer’s baby food business in Mexico, in order to ensure that Pfizer's formula brands remain as an independent and viable ...
The Eindhoven-based firm said it has developed the pack for semi-liquid food and it is designed for the on-the-go baby food market. The pack includes a milk powder dispenser, spring water and a ‘baby nipple’. In a statement, ...
Tags: self heating packaging, packaging, Dutch
There are three hot topics in the packaging world. The first one is the dispensing cap, which we find mainly on top of a water bottle for inserting a certain dose of vitamins. It is a packaging format which over the last years attracted ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Self-Heating Packaging