Virginia Poultry Growers Cooperative will build a $62m turkey processing facility in Hinton, a move that creates new jobs. The expansion will increase the company's poultry production by over 45% to cater to the increasing consumer demand ...
Tags: animal husbandry, turkey processing, poultry production
Campbell Soup is planning to reformulate its products as part of its business restructuring strategy to bolster its core business. The company plans to remove ingredients such as added MSG from its existing range of condensed soups for ...
Tags: healty food, organic food
Nestlé has opened a new $50m research & development (R&D) center in Solon, in the US state of Ohio. The new 144,000ft2 facility will focus on research in frozen and chilled foods. The Solon R&D center will also focus on ...
Tags: food production, frozen food, chilled food
US-based food company Beyond Meat has made a plant-based sausage pizza, under a partnership with Daiya Foods. The new Supreme Pizza is made with Beyond Meat's gourmet meatless sausage made out of pea protein and Daiya's dairy-free ...
Design and packaging firm Graphic Packaging International has opened up its Global Innovation Centre (GIC) for consumers in the UK, to support new developments in food and beverage packging. Developed with an investment of $1m at Bardon ...
Tags: Graphic Packaging, packaging
Beverage packaging that scores on the environmental front is influencing the purchase decision of consumers, finds a survey undertaken for Tetra Pak in 12 countries. According to Environment Research 2015, 75% of the respondents said that ...
US-based flexible packaging products maker Bemis Company has inked a pact for the acquisition of South American rigid plastic packaging business of Brazilian firm Emplal Participa. The transaction, contingent upon customary closing ...
Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), along with colleagues at Taiwan’s National Chiao Tung University, have developed a 3D-printed cap smart cap to detect spoiled milk. The 3D-printed cap uses ...
Tags: Smart Cap, Spoiled Milk
The European Commission has launched a probe into the proposed purchase of UK-based can manufacturer Rexam by the US firm Ball Corporation, to ascertain whether it conforms to the EU Merger Regulation. The investigation is born out of ...
Tags: beverage can, aluminum bottle
The Australian government will enforce new country of origin food labeling system from 2016 to inform consumers where products are made, grown or packaged. Under the new national standard, locally processed foods will carry a new label ...
Tags: origin food, food labeling
Sales will continue to grow as major companies roll out new products with long-lasting flavors in a highly competitive market Wallace Chung looked as if he had just stepped off a movie set. Dressed in an electric blue jacket with matching ...
Tags: Chewing Gum, chewing gum market
The Chinese government will allow prices of several agricultural goods to float freely in the market in an "historic adjustment," state media reported Tuesday, as high domestic prices struggle to cope with a downtrend in the global ...
The New Zealand Government has launched a new initiative to supply recycling bins at retail outlets to enable consumers to dump the used soft plastic bags for recycling. Initially put on a pilot mode at New World, PAK'nSAVE and The ...
Thai Union Frozen Products (TUF) is planning to raise close to $380m, which will fund its planned acquisition of Bumble Bee Seafoods. TUF will offer up to 795.3 million new shares to its existing shareholders at $0.4685 each, Reuters ...
Tags: food, Bumble Bee Seafoods
New Zealand-based milk marketing company a2 Milk has rejected a joint takeover proposal from Australia's Freedom Foods and US food giant Dean Foods. The company's board did not consider the proposal, which was made in June, as compelling. ...
Tags: healthy food, animal husbandry, milk