Leicester-based Universal Flexible Packaging (UFP) will be investing around £2.3m to convert its current Lunsford Road site into a Peanut and Tree Nut site. The company made this announcement after its September announcement of ...
Tags: confectionery, popcorn, dry goods packaging
Cargill India is set to commence production at its INR5bn ($78.8m) maize milling unit in Karnataka in June 2015. The plant, which is said to be the company's first maize unit in India, will be capable of processing around 800 tonnes of ...
Tags: bakery, confectionery, snacks, beverage, Agriculture
US-based food manufacturing company Kellogg's has once again raised its offer to acquire Egyptian cake and biscuit maker Bisco Misr to £89.86 per share, in an increasing $144m takeover battle. Kellogg's new offer overtakes Abraaj ...
Tags: Egyptian cake, biscuit maker, Agriculture
Earlier in December 2014, Australian Food News reported that food manufacturing was one of four manufacturing sub-sectors to expand in November 2014, according to the Australian Industry Group Australian Performance of Manufacturing Index ...
Tags: Food, Beverage, Agriculture
SME fund Enact has made a six-figure investment in flexible packaging company Excelsior which specialises in high quality gravure print for the food, confectionery and medical sectors. Enact's investment is aimed at helping Excelsior to ...
Tags: food, confectionery, medical sectors, Agriculture
RPC Containers Blackburn has created a new, narrower jar for Tangerine Confectionery which loses none of the on-shelf impact of its larger predecessor. Tangerine Confectionery will be using these containers for its Taveners traditional ...
Tags: confectionery, sweet shop, Agriculture
Confectionery manufacturers should promote chocolate products as an indulgent treat with natural ingredients and sustainable production in order to tap into the chocolate market, according to market research organisation Canadean. ...
Tags: chocolate products, Food
Singapore’s Olam International has agreed to acquire the global cocoa business of Archer Daniels Midland Company, in a $1.3bn deal. This new development is expected to enhance Olam's chocolate and cocoa businesses, in an effort ...
Flexible packaging such as plastic bags, confectionery wrappers, frozen food bags and pouches makes up nearly a third (32%) of consumer plastic packaging in the UK, however virtually all of this 556,000 tonnes produced annually ends up in ...
The two-year REFLEX project, funded by the UK’s innovation agency, Innovate UK, aims to create a circular economy for flexible packaging – from confectionery wrappers to detergent pouches – by involving the whole supply ...
Few companies in the UK have come together to start work on a two-year project called 'Reflex,' with the hope of significantly improving the recyclability of flexible packaging and diverting more of it away from the landfill. The project ...
Tags: flexible packaging, landfill, Packaging
Hershey has completed the acquisition of The Allan Candy Company, a Canadian confectionery producer for an undisclosed amount. The addition of Allan Candy's manufacturing capabilities and confectionery portfolio will enhance Hershey's ...
Japanese retail packaging is as culturally unique to Japan as its language, traditional dress and customs, and it took four days at Tokyo Pack 2014 to begin to make sense of characteristic traits in pack construction and consumer ...
Tags: retail packaging, Packaging
American confectionery producer Hershey is planning to replace high-fructose corn syrup with sugar in certain products. As reported by the Associated Press, the move comes in response to the decreasing demand for the syrup and growing ...
Tags: confectionery, Sugar
India’s Prova Flavours, the manufacturer of cocoa, coffee and vanilla flavours and extracts, is set to start a 10,000sq ft manufacturing plant in Mahadevapura, Bengaluru. With the new plant, the company will process and extract ...
Tags: vanilla, cocoa, coffee, Agriculture