British Retail Consortium releases online retail sales monitor figures for April 2014. BRC-KPMG Non-Food Retail Sales Year-on-Year Growth: Clothing In contrast with March, the fashion categories growth were negatively affected by ...
Tags: Online Garment, Online sales
Online sales of non-food products in the UK grew 11.2% in April versus a year earlier. In April 2013, they had increased by 6.3% over the previous year. In April, online sales represented 16.1% of total non-food sales of the BRC's ...
Tags: non-food products, Economy
US consumers prefer restaurants that have nutrition information and "healthful" options US consumers were more likely to frequent restaurants that provided both 'healthful' foods and nutrition information, according to research from Penn ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
The issue of food safety has rocketed up the political agenda in recent years but despite huge improvements, some concerns and problems still persist. Fears about our food are moving away from issues about ensuring an adequate supply and ...
Tags: Food Safety, Agriculture, Food
When it comes to Halal food, most people think of meat products only. However, Muslims must ensure that all foods, particularly processed foods, pharmaceuticals and non food items like cosmetics are also Halal. Often these products contain ...
Tags: Halal Certification, certification, Certification Rules, Halal
Most of us go to grocery store to buy food items, vegetables, fruits, medicines, etc without a second thought to industrial refrigeration. Do you know that ammonia refrigeration systems play a crucial role in many of the products you buy ...
Tags: Industrial Refrigeration, food items, vegetables, fruits
ConAgra Foods, Inc., one of North America's leading food companies, today reported results for the fiscal 2014 third quarter ended Feb. 23, 2014. Diluted EPS from continuing operations was $0.58 as reported for the fiscal third quarter vs. ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
A refrigerator or fridge is an electro-mechanical equipment that consists of a thermally insulated compartment and a compressor that transfers heat from the inside of the fridge compartment to its external surroundings so that the inside ...
Tags: Commercial Refrigerators, Consumer Electronics, Refrigerator
General Mills today reported results for the third quarter of fiscal 2014. Sales and operating profit for the 13 weeks ended Feb. 23, 2014, reflect lower volumes, consistent with generally weak food industry trends during this period; the ...
Researchers from the University of Western Australia (UWA) are developing quality control systems for unprocessed and processed food items using infrared technology. Funded by an Australian Research Council grant, the project is aimed ...
Tags: Infrared Technology, Food Quality
China-based Dongxing Aluminium has debuted new aluminium foil strips and shielding tape which are suitable for food packaging. The aluminium foil strip, which is ideal for moisture prevention, enables the food to retain its taste and ...
Tags: Food Packaging, Aluminium Foil
Tesco's UK like for like sales drop 2.4 per cent, while Morrisons sees a 5.6 per cent fall in sales Tesco has revealed that it experienced weak trading over the crucial Christmas period. Britain's biggest supermarket chain announced ...
Tags: Tesco, weak trading, Christmas sales, Morrisons, Marks, Spencer, grocer
Food items that are rich in sugar are referred to as Confectionery. To make such food items even more delicious, a variety of flavors like chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, etc, are added to them. In fact, there is a separate industry, Food & ...
Foodborne illness outbreaks result when two or more persons develop similar symptoms of illness (gastroenteritis) after eating a common food, or become ill after consuming food from a common source. Such events occur relatively frequently ...
Tags: Foodborne Illness, Food Safety, Food
The use of color-coded "traffic light" food labels and changes in the way popular items are displayed appear to have produced a long-term increase in the choice of more healthful food items among customers in a large hospital cafeteria. A ...