General Mills has agreed to sell its Argentina bakery and foodservice business to a Mexico-based baking company Grupo Bimbo for undisclosed sum. However, General Mills will retain its growing retail food business in Argentina, including ...
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Nestle Dreyer’s Ice Cream has made significant changes to key ingredients of its six brands that include Dreyer’s, Hagen-Dazs, Outshine, Skinny Cow, Nestlé Ice Cream and Nestlé Drumstick. As part of the ...
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Australian technology and design firm Glowpear has launched an Indiegogo campaign to introduce their latest product, Glowpear Mini: a smart, self-watering planter makes it easy, rewarding and fun to grow fresh, organic produce from the ...
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US-based flexible and rigid packaging solutions provider Bemis has agreed to acquire medical device packaging operations and related value-added services from SteriPack Group for an undisclosed sum. As part of the transaction, Bemis will ...
Tags: Bemis, Acquisition, Medical device packaging, SterPack Group
A new hand-held scanner which determines whether meat is safe to eat or not, is now being sold in Australia. The ‘FOODsniffer’ is a small scanner which can be placed near raw chicken, beef, pork or fish to pick up ammonia, ...
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There are some serious lessons to be learnt for businesses in the food industry when examining a unique case of food fraud out of the UK this week. Facts of the fraudulent scenario The guilty culprit, Yakub Moosa Yusuf, was sentenced to ...
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A Queensland not-for-profit charity providing food relief for families in need is benefiting from new and refurbished material handling equipment supplied by Toyota Material Handling Australia (TMHA). Located at Loganholme and Hillcrest ...
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Aldi Australia has the potential to be bringing in AUD $15 billion in annual sales by 2020 says a new Morgan Stanley report. Released yesterday, the report analysed that shoppers are now spending an average of AUD$100 per month at ...
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Dow Chemical Company has launched an innovative Microfoaming Technology for the packaging industry in Latin America. The project is part of a comprehensive Dow program focused on mitigating the carbon footprint of the Rio 2016 Olympic ...
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William Jackson Food Group (WJFG) has acquired healthy snacking brand The Food Doctor. We've been looking to enter the healthy eating category for some time now and have long admired The Food Doctor, a London-based business started by ...
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Olam International has entered into a $175m five-year loan agreement with IFC, a World Bank Group unit, to fund its working capital and capital expenditure requirements for four of its food processing facilities in Nigeria and India. The ...
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Spice manufacturer McCormick & Company has acquired Australia-based packaged herbs manufacturer Botanical Food Company in an all-cash deal worth $114m. The acquisition will expand McCormick's existing branded herb portfolio with the ...
US-based trade organisation the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) and technology company Battelle have partnered to provide a secure, web-based software tool called EMAlert, which allows food manufacturers to review and understand ...
Tags: GMA, Battelle, EMAlert, Food manufactures
Scottish oats company Stoats is launching two new product ranges with the release of their new Porridge Sachets and Rustic Scottish Oat Muesli. The new Porridge Sachets will be available in four different flavours; Original, Multigrain, ...
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3M Food Safety, the availability of software enhancements to its 3M Petrifilm Plate Reader, a peripheral device that serves as an automated alternative to the more time-consuming task of manually counting and documenting colonies of ...