Associated British Foods has "emphatically" denied allegations of tax evasion on profits made by its sugar processing operations in Zambia. In a report published by Action Aid at the weekend, the charity claims the Ryvita and Silver Spoon ...
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Jacada has entered into a material agreement with a major US insurance group to offer its real-time process guidance and automation solutions to support the latter's policy servicing and processing operations across multiple lines of ...
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Two billion tonnes of food never makes it on a plate – this was the headline that grabbed the nation’s attention mid-January, putting the food industry and its practices under the microscope again, re-igniting the debate on ...
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Danish toy bricks manufacturer Lego has announced plans to discontinue packaging and processing operations at its Billund plant in western Denmark, in a bid to slash costs. The unit manufactures the toys' packaging as well as decorations. ...
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SunOpta, a Canada-based organic, specialty and natural health products manufacturer, is set to add additional filling lines at its Allentown, Pennsylvania facility in the US, as part of its strategy to expand flexible re-sealable pouch ...
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PMMI, the owner and producer of the EXPO PACK and PACK EXPO family of trade shows, announced that the premiere edition of EXPO PACK Guadalajara (Feb.27 -March 1, 2013; Expo Guadalajara) has sold out. "In December, we were happy to see ...
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American agribusiness company Cargill has announced that it will idle its beef processing facility in Plainview, Texas, on 1 February 2013, and lay off 2000 workers. The company has blamed reduced cattle supply resulting from years of ...
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This spring will bring job cuts for some of the 169 staff at the Scottish Salmon Company (SSC) in the Western Isles, as the firm announced a review of its Stornoway harvesting and processing operations last week (January 8). The ...
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Businesses will face tough penalties for failing to secure personal data under new European legislation. Companies could face fines of up to 2% of their turnover for breaching a proposed EU data protection law. “It is ...
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The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has allowed XL Foods to re-open the facility at the centre of an e. coli scare after an assessment of its food safety controls. XL Foods has had its suspension lifted by CFIA and is now licensed ...
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Agribusiness giants Archer Daniels Midland and Wilmar International have set up a venture to sell and market vegetable fats and oils in Europe. The venture was announced alongside two other partnerships on global fertilizer and on ocean ...
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Finnish materials company Ahlstrom has signed an agreement with Munksjö’s principal owner EQT to combine its Label and Processing business area with Munksjö to form a single company Munksjö Corporation through two ...
Tags: Business Unit, Label and Processing business, Coated Specialties plant
Australian grain handler GrainCorp has agreed to acquire Australian oilseed crusher Gardner Smith for A$302m ($313.82m) as well as Goodman Fielder's commercial oils business Integro Foods for A$170m ($176.65m). The deals, which represent ...
Tags: commercial oils business, edible oil sector, leading oilseed crusher
XL Foods' plant in Alberta, Canada, which was at the center of a national beef recall, has resumed operations under its new owner - JBS USA. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) had suspended the license of the plant on 27 September ...
Tags: beef processing operations, national beef recall, contaminated products
Japanese trading company Itochu is in talks to acquire Dole Food’s global canned-fruit and juice-beverage processing operations, as well as its packaged foods and Asian fruit and vegetable businesses. Dole Food, a distributor of ...
Tags: Dole Food, canned-fruit, juice-beverage, talks