Flint-based Creative Foods is set to cease ready meals operations in Flintshire, north Wales, a move which will affect around 150 staff. Located in Aber Industrial Estate, the plant manufactures frozen ready meals, sauces, soups and pasta ...
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US-based food brand Amy’s Kitchen will establish a new organic food manufacturing plant in Goshen, Orange County, New York with an investment of $100m, a move which will create about 700 jobs. Work on the 500,000ft2 plant, which is ...
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Scientists have discovered why dark chocolate is good for us The health benefits of eating dark chocolate have been extolled for a long time, but the exact reason has remained a mystery — until now. Certain bacteria in the stomach ...
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February 10, 2014 Sophie Langley Retail food sales and manufacturing growth strengthening in Australia Year-on-year growth in retail food sales is at its strongest since early 2010, according to a report from food manufacturing industry ...
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Leclerc Foods USA, a Canadian cookie, snack bar and crackers producer, has purchased a new facility at Freeport Business Center to strengthen its food manufacturing capabilities in Phoenix, Arizona. The investment is in line with the ...
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UK-based Premier Foods has taken over the wheat and flour milling operation of Swaziland-based Ngwane Group for ZAR100m. The Swaziland Competition Commission (SCC) has approved the transaction, subject to certain conditions. The ...
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In the first month of 2014, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued 11 warning letters to food manufacturers and processors. The first two warning letters of the year were delivered to a seafood processing facility in Hawaii and a ...
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SATO has developed a new food label printer which enables food producers and operators to comply with the allergen labelling changes with the minimum of effort and change to existing procedures. With the company's new solution, food ...
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UK-based Premier Foods will invest £20m to set up a new production and packing line at its cake manufacturing site in Fish Dam Lane in Carlton, Barnsley, in order to meet growing demand for its Mr. Kipling Snack Pack slices range. ...
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Four companies have confirmed they will be exhibiting for the first time, increasing the breadth of services offered, and deepening the show's penetration of two key sectors – chemicals and food. New exhibitors, Woodman Hill and ...
November had the lowest number of unemployed people in the U.S. since five years ago, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' monthly employment report. The unemployment rate for November was at 7 percent, lower than the 7.3 percent ...
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US-based SK Food has unveiled plans to set up a food manufacturing facility in the Columbus region, Ohio, a move which would create approximately 250 jobs over the next three years. The $13m project will be operated within the company's ...
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Canada-based CAM Packaging Systems has unveiled an automatic side sealer that offers single solution system for vegetable and fruit packaging needs. According to the company, the food packaging equipment has the ability to both shrink ...
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Victoria's strong footprint in the national food manufacturing and processing industries has prompted organisers of next year's foodpro food manufacturing trade show to head to Melbourne for the first time. The event's exhibition manager, ...
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For years I have gone into food stores and read labels only to not know what half the ingredients were. I got to thinking, that maybe I'm not alone when it comes to knowing what the rest of them are. So, I've put together what might be a ...