Danish packaging company Primoreels has invested in a new Nilpeter all-new FA press to increase printing quality and capacity. Primoreels is engaged in providing lidding solutions for the dairy sector and water/juice industries. The firm ...
French food group Danone has signed a binding agreement to sell its US dairy subsidiary, Stonyfield, to Lactalis for $875m. The price of the deal represents 20 times its earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization ...
French dairy giant The Lactalis Group has offered its Italian subsidiary Parmalat a buyout offer of €637m for the 12.26% stake it doesn’t hold. The move from the Lactalis is to take 100% control of Parmalat in order to delist ...
Tags: dairy, Lactalis Group
Parmalat, a supplier of milk products and fruit based drinks, has commissioned Sacmi’s new injection preform system (IPS) 220 to renew its Piana di Monteverna plant in Caserta, Italy. Lactalis Group-controlled Parmalat has installed ...
Tags: Pet Preform, Parmalat, milk products
Branding and packaging design firm Parker Williams has given a Rachel's yogurts a makeover with 'Bright ID' technology. In the maiden redesign during the past five years of Rachel, Parker Williams has worked towards matching the ...
Tags: Parker Williams, Yogurts Packaging
French dairy group Lactalis has got approval from Brazilian antitrust authority to purchase the dairy units of food processor BRF SA in a deal worth $594m. Lactalis will execute the deal through its Parmalat subsidiary in Brazil. ...
Tags: dairy group, Lactalis, Dairy
Brazilian food company BRF is set to establish a joint venture with UK-based Invicta Food Group to distribute processed foods in Britain, Ireland and Scandinavia. Reuters reported citing a securities filing that the company's ...
Tags: Processed Foods, BRF
French dairy producer Lactalis International has offered to buy the Egypt-based dairy firm Arab Dairy for LE66 ($9.20) per share. This new offer marks the highest price for share compared to the other potential buyers including Saudi ...
Tags: Arab Dairy, Acquisition Offer, Agriculture
BRF ended the third quarter of 2014 with net income of R$ 624 million, an increase of 117.5% over 3Q13. This performance arose from the management techniques and processes that have been implemented over the last year and highlight the ...
Tags: Brazilian operations, Net Operating Revenues, Agriculture
French dairy group Lactalis is in negotiations to acquire Canadian dairy processor Saputo's cheese manufacturing facility in Germany for an undisclosed amount. Saputo's German facility manufactures Italian specialty cheeses for the retail ...
Tags: French dairy group, Food
Parmalat has confirmed its full-year growth targets after booking an increase in first-half profits. The Italian dairy group, in which Lactalis owns a majority stake, recorded earnings of EUR82.5m (US$101.6m) in the six months to end of ...
The managing director for Nestle's confectionery business in the UK, David Rennie, has been appointed VP of the group's European operations. Rennie, who has led the Kit Kat firm's UK confectionery unit since January 2009, will be tasked ...
Tags: confectionery, confectionery business, confectionery unit, dairy
Lactalis has agreed a deal to buy Australian cheese business Jindi from local FMCG sales and marketing firm Menora Foods. Jindi, which Menora said manufactures "speciality" cheese, will join a Lactalis Australian cheese portfolio that ...
Tags: Cheese Firm, Menora Foods, cheeses
Lactalis has added to its Seriously Strong product line in the UK with the launch of a cheese sauce. Seriously Strong Cheese Sauce will be the first sauce product for the Seriously Strong brand, Lactalis said today (20 August). For use as ...
Tags: Cheese Sauce, product line, cheddar cheese
Former Lactalis boss Michel Léonard has been appointed CEO of Groupe Doux, the French poultry processor that went into receivership earlier this month. Léonard, who was Lactalis president for nine years until 2009, takes the ...
Tags: Doux, CEO, receivership