US-based food company TreeHouse Foods is planning to close two production facilities located in Azusa, California and Ripon, Wisconsin. The shutdown of facilities is part of the company's efforts to streamline operations by reducing ...
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US-based rigid packaging company TricorBraun has redesigned cat litter package for Bentonite Performance Minerals (BPM), a subsidiary of Halliburton. Bentonite Performance Minerals is a producer of sodium bentonite mined from the Wyoming ...
Two new studies, separately released this week from Roy Morgan Research and Euromonitor International respectively, show how bottled water consumption is increasing in both Australia and the US. Over 5 million Australians drank bottled ...
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Southeastern Grocers, parent company to BI-LO, Winn-Dixie and Harveys stores, has committed to converting 100% of its private label eggs to cage-free during 2017, and targeting the expansion of that commitment to the remainder of eggs sold ...
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US-based private equity firm Wind Point Partners has acquired Evans Food Group and its subsidiaries. The financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed. Evans Food Group, which was founded in 1947 and acquired in 1985, is the maker ...
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Monogram Foods has acquired Massachusetts-based Progressive Gourmet, a manufacturer of frozen appetizers for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition will bring additional processing capacities and distribution for small bites foods, baked ...
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Tassal will stop supplying Coles supermarkets with private label salmon as of 4 June 2016. The Tasmanian seafood company will also stop a salmon supply contract with Simplot from 30 June 2016. Tassal said it decided to withdraw tenders ...
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Gelson's Markets has announced that it will convert all of its private-label packaged eggs to cage-free this year. The company projects that close to 90% of its packaged egg sales will be cage-free by next year, with available eggs ...
TreeHouse Foods’ subsidiary Bay Valley Foods is planning to close spoonable dressings production facility in Ayer, Massachusetts. The company is planning to stop production in the first half of 2017, while the full closure of the ...
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Albertsons Companies has launched its new store brand, Signature, the largest private label across all 2,286 of its stores. Signature is a multi-category brand developed to address consumers' growing appetite for quality private label ...
Woolworths is reportedly repackaging more than 900 of its Homebrand products with the "Essentials" own-brand label to counter customer perceptions about their quality. The Homebrand range has annual sales of about $1.4 billion and more ...
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China is introducing a new tax which will impact Australian food companies that rely on selling their products online. Details of the tax are not yet clear however it is expected that online purchases from outside of China will be ...
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Further details on Aldi’s expansion into Western Australia show things are running on time. While Woolworths supermarkets group announced the ditching of the Homebrand private label, analysts say the decision is an attempt to ...
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Woolworths supermarket group is saying goodbye to its Homebrand private label range and replacing it with another of its private label brand. Homebrand was established by Woolworths in 1983 and developed an early reputation for ...
G-III Apparel Group Ltd. reported fourth-quarter earnings that came in well short of Wall Street targets. For the fourth quarter ended Jan. 31, 2016, G-III reported that net sales increased by 3 percent to $527.4 million from $514.3 ...
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