The UK's largest cash and carry wholesaler Booker Group has posted an increase in third-quarter sales, boosted by revenue growth in all its divisions. In the 16 weeks ended 4 January, total sales rose by 3.1%, while like-for-like sales ...
Tags: Booker, sales, fresh departments
It's inevitable when traveling.You find yourself drawing comparisons to home. I recently had the good fortune to travel to Germany,the Netherlands and Austria as part of a world vegetable forum sponsored by Bayer CropScience. We heard a ...
Tags: agriculture, vegetable, heritage, appreciate home
Discount retailer Lidl has launched a trial "healthy till" initiative in a move that will see it remove confectionery products from its till areas. Impulse confectionery products, such as chocolates, will be replaced with foods that have ...
Tags: healthy tills, confectionery products, foods, fruit, vegetable
One of the great things about life in the 21st Century is that we have a whole set of interior design traditions to borrow from, and to mix and match. This helps us to add flourishes to our modern spaces that make statements – ...
Tags: Vintage Home Decor, Modern Home
The Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company Foundation has announced the addition of ten new countries to its international ‘Litter Less' education campaign led by the Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE).This addition brings the number of ...
Tags: packaging, litter education, Litter Less
Kids Gourmet, a natural brand extension of Baby Gourmet aimed at school-aged kids, today announces its launch and introduces its first snack line, Squoosh. Squoosh, the only organic snack with a full serving of fruit & veg in every pouch, ...
Tags: Squooshy Packaging, Healthful Snacks, Packaging, Kids
2012-10-15 12:22:06-Glass and Glass Product Manufacturing in Australia-Industry Risk Rating Report-a new industry profile report This is the replacement for IBISWorld´s June 2011 edition of Glass and Glass Product Manufacturing in ...
McCain Foods has signed a deal to buy the potato division of Belgian vegetable supplier PinguinLutosa. The deal, announced today (19 October), is based on an enterprise value of the division of EUR225m (US$293.2m). It encompasses ...
Tags: McCain Foods, potato division, PinguinLutosa, vegetable
Hain Celestial has today (22 August) been announced as the buyer of Premier Foods plc's spreads assets, including brands such as Hartley's jam and Sun-Pat peanut butter. The US food group had been linked to Premier's spreads business, ...
Tags: Hain Celestial, Premier Foods plc, peanut butter, food industry
Hain Celestial is to sell its UK sandwich business Daily Bread to Adelie Food Group in return for the local firm's prepared fruits business. The US group said the deal with Adelie, which supplies products including salads, quiches and ...
Tags: Hain Celestial, sandwich business, fruit business, food industry
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has announced that Saladexpress, located in Saint-Rémi, Quebec, has been fined for violating the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Regulations. CFIA noted that Saladexpress marketed the ice ...
Tags: CFIA, Saladexpress, fined, fresh fruit, vegetable
Nut, fruit and vegetable processors have a new weapon in their quality control arsenal in the form of Tomra Sorting Solutions’ Best Nimbus N sorter, which can sort products in free fall. The 640mm or 1,200mm sorter uses ...
Tags: Tomra, hyperspectrum cameras, Nimbus N, free fall, infra-red, IPA, nuts
Africa and the Middle East have driven a rise in exports of food and non-alcoholic drinks from the UK in the first half of 2012, figures show. For the six months to the end of June, food and soft drinks exports increased by 2.2% to ...
Irish paper and packaging group Smurfit Kappa has won the PPI award for the Eco Tray, a corrugated tray offering a green alternative to conventional polystyrene and plastic trays. According to the company, the 100% recyclable Eco Tray ...
The Salars, with' a population of 87.697, mainly live in close community in Xunhua Salar Autonomous County of Qinghai Province. A few are scattered in Qinghai, Gansu and Xinjiang. Killing sheep on the Festival of Fast-breaking ...
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