Swiss transnational food and drink firm Nestle has opened a new $245m child nutrition factory in Jalisco, Mexico. The 600,000 m2 facility will triple the company's existing capacity for manufacturing child nutrition products. It is ...
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French frozen pastry maker Mademoiselle Desserts has acquired the Netherlands based Quality Pastries, for an undisclosed sum. Investment firm Equistone Partners Europe has provided financial backing to the French company in the ...
Freedom Foods Group has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with its Guangzhou based partner Shenzhen JiaLiLe Food (JLL) to set up a new company for expansion of its Australia’s Own (AO) brand in China. The new company ...
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Grieg NL has selected AMG Norway, a subsidiary of the Aqua Maof Group, to build its state-of-the-art hatchery and nursery facility in Marystown, Newfoundland. The facility, which will deploy Aqua Maof's cutting edge RAS technology, will ...
BASF has started planning for the construction of a new world-scale plant for vitamin A in Ludwigshafen, Germany. The new facility will increase BASF’s total annual production capacity of vitamin A by 1,500 metric tons. Reference ...
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Chocolate and cocoa products maker Barry Callebaut has opened its first chocolate factory in Indonesia. The company had entered into a long-term agreement for out-sourcing with GarudaFood Group. As per the deal, GarudaFood will supply ...
DuPont Nutrition & Health has launched two new cheese cultures under the Choozit range which are claimed to streamline production and help in producing high-quality soft-ripened cheese. The two cheese cultures have been branded as Choozit ...
Olymel has announced that it will expand its pork processing facility in Beauce in Canada’s Quebec province with an investment of $3m. The Canadian pork and poultry meat producer will use the investment for installing new equipment ...
Global plant protein manufacturer Axiom Foods will enter India to produce natural rice bran oil to tap the vast potential of the market. In India, Axiom Foods will produce a range of stabilized rice bran ingredients for both human food ...
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Ice creams made in Russia are gaining popularity in China after Russian President Vladimir Putin brought them as a gift for President Xi Jinping during the G20 summit in Hangzhou earlier this month. Xi, who turned out to be a fan of ...
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Neovia Vietnam launches a new pig production chain called “Le porc du Mékong”, in partnership with the Grimaud and Le Boucher Groups. The creation of a pig production chain in Vietnam, in partnership with the various ...
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Global agriculture company Syngenta has completed expansion of its key projects in Brazil and Switzerland to increase its production capacity. It had invested a total of $240m in two Brazilian plants. One of them is the new Elatus ...
Consolidated Grain and Barge (CGB) is set to expand its soybean processing plant in southwest Indiana with an investment of more than $31m. Through the expansion, the company plans to double the size of its plant located at the Port of ...
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Shanghai Husi Food and its US based parent company OSI Group have been fined more than CNY24.3m ($3.6m) by the Shanghai Municipal Food and Drug Administration for preparing and selling sub-standard meat products. While Shanghai Husi Food ...
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Potato-chip giant Utz Quality Foods has completed its previously announced $135m acquisition of Alabama based Golden Enterprises, the owner of the Golden Flake Snack Foods. The merger is expected to support Utz Quality Foods’ growth ...