PureCircle, a producer of stevia ingredients, expects first-half sales to surge as food and beverage companies sign up for the natural sweetener. Net sales are expected to show an increase of 80% to US$27m in the six months to 31 ...
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Sweet Green Fields, a US-based stevia extracts producer, announced plans to expand its stevia crop in the South-eastern US based on the performance of the crop during the 2012 growing season. Sweet Green Fields has teamed up with grower ...
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Truvia business has signed a strategic agreement with Grupo Herdez for the distribution and marketing of its Truvia sweetener in Mexico. Truvia is a stevia-based sugar substitute developed jointly by Coca-Cola and Cargill. Recently, ...
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US agribusiness giant Cargill has launched its stevia sweetener Truvia in Venezuela. Cargill announced the launch of the natural sweetener into the South American market yesterday (18 July), following what it claims is "a year of ...
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Associated British Foods today (10 September) revealed it had taken an impairment charge of A$150m (US$155m) on its Australian meat business as it battles "difficult" trading conditions in the market. The UK-listed group announced the ...
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The latest batch of reports from the just-food research store includes a look at bakery trends,a European dairy industry outlook to 2020,and how stevia will change the sweeteners market. TRENDS What's Hot in Bakery:Global Industry ...
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Health Canada has authorized the use of stevia, a natural and no calorie sweetener, in foods and beverages in Canada. The approval follows Health Canada's evaluation of the data supporting the safety and efficacy of steviol glycosides as ...
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Canada has become the latest country to approve the use of stevia in food and beverages. Health Canada said on Friday (30 November) it has authorised the use of the sugar substitute as a food additive for products. Previously it was only ...
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American agribusiness company Cargill has launched Truvia,a stevia-based sugar substitute,in Venezuela,as a part of its effort to strengthen its position in the stevia-based sweetener category. According to the company,this move comes ...
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Nevella To Go, the brand owned by US-based Heartland Food Products, has launched portable liquid sweetener with zero calories. New Nevella To Go liquid sweeteners are available in easy squirt bottles that are small enough to fit in the ...
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Sweet Green Fields , a US-based producer of stevia extracts, has launched two natural sweetener solutions - Optesse HPX and Optesse HPS - which can be used for diet and reduced calorie beverages. The company noted that the two high ...
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SportsQuest has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Maize Pluss, has signed a contract to distribute organic stevia, an USDA FDA approved organic sweetener. SportsQuest CEO Jeff Burns said that the company is building a very ...
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Stevia supplier PureCircle today (11 September) insisted it was still confident about the future of the natural sweetener despite its losses widening in the last 12 months. UK-listed Pure Circle reported a loss after tax of US$23.3m for ...
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Stevia Nutra,a Canadian company focused on stevia agronomics,announced that it has entered into a services provision agreement with Ecologica,a local Cambodian agro-development company. Stevia Nutra,a Canadian company focused on stevia ...
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