Some vintners in Italy last week may have stopped stomping grapes and frantically opened their Chinese dictionaries. The vineyards in the EU's wine-producing regions have 10 days to get the language down pat, so they can respond to a trade ...
Tags: China Probe, EU Wineries
Australia-based dairy food exporter Devondale (Murray Goulburn Co-operative) is set to establish a milk processing facility at Erskine Park in Sydney, with an investment of a A$60m ($54.5m). Devondale had purchased a five-hectare plot ...
Tags: Milk, dairy food
New Zealand-based multinational dairy co-operative Fonterra has selected Tetra Pak's processing and packaging equipment for its NZ$100m ($77.7m) UHT greenfield plant in Waitoa. The new facility, which will feature five UHT lines, will ...
The Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF), an India-based milk co-operative operating under the Amul brand, has reported a turnover of INR137.35bn ($2.29bn) during the year 2012-13, a growth of 18%, compared to INR116.68bn ...
Tags: Dairy Product, Milk
Financial representatives are attempting to forge a sale of some or all of chilled food firm Bakkavr’s UK facilities to 2 Sisters Food Group, according to a source within 2 Sisters. 2 Sisters has been highly acquisitive recently ...
Tags: Agriculture&Food, 2 Sisters, Bakkavor Next
A new front-of-pack food label that has the support of big brands, health groups and all the major supermarkets was launched yesterday. Food sold in packaging will be colour coded according to a red, amber and green scheme to show how ...
Tags: food label, label, Packaging, Printing
Blue Diamond Growers, a US-based agricultural co-operative, has opened a new almond processing facility in Turlock, California. The 200,000ft2 facility is located on an 88 acre land at N. Washington and Fulkerth roads. The products from ...
Tags: Blue Diamond, Food
Food companies including Mars, Nestle, PepsiCo, and Premier Foods have signed up to the new consistent front-of-pack nutritional label scheme introduced by the UK Government. The new labeling scheme has been launched on food products to ...
Tags: PepsiCo, Food Label Scheme
UK has unveiled a new front-of-pack nutrition labelling system, which will make it easier for consumers to make healthier choices about the food they eat. The new labelling system is colour-coded red, amber and green, and is designed to ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, nutrition labelling system, Packaging, Printing
Forrester founder and CEO George Colony has touted the shift from IT to business technology and urged CIOs to get closer to their marketing colleagues in the age of the customer. Speaking at Forrester’s CIO Forum in London and in an ...
Tags: Forrester, CIO-CMO Collaboration
UK-based mutual life and pensions company Royal London has announced that 95% of its members have approved the acquisition of Co-operative Insurance Society (CIS), the life insurance business of the Co-operative Banking Group. Members ...
A recent research on development of pesticide conducted by Australia-based Growth Agriculture Pty Ltd to protect cotton plants has achieved positive results for a single cotton plant, ‘Plant X. Andrew Vesey of Growth Agriculture ...
GreenSaver and the SolarShare Co-operative have signed an agreement to develop a solar project on the rooftop of 32 Goodmark Place in Toronto. Both partners are not-for-profit corporations and the solar development will be financed by ...
Tags: OPA, solar installation, Ontario Power Authority, rooftop projects
Arla Foods, a Denmark-based dairy cooperative, has selected the digital asset management (DAM) software of American Widen Enterprises. Widen Enterprises DAM is said to be a cost-efficient brand management solution conducive to ...
Tags: Arla Foods, Food
Food waste will be sent to anaerobic digesters which will convert the waste into energy. The Co-operative, which has one of the largest and most diverse food retail estates across the UK, is extending its waste back-haul initiative to ...