Mondelēz International, a US-based food and beverage firm, is geared up to invest around £75m in its Cadbury plant in Bournville, Birmingham. The investment will be used to upgrade equipment at the facility over the next three ...
Tags: investment, optimizing the costs
FreemantleMedia reveals a raft of new licensees and promotional activity to coincide with the launch Vivid has launched the toy range for Strange Hill High at Toy Fair. To coincide with the launch, FreemantleMedia Kids & Family ...
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Robotics address the need for speed for product placement into packaging. Bosch Packaging TechnologyEnergy and raw materials are becoming more expensive, and consumers want to do more for the environment. This is forcing manufacturers of ...
Tags: Robotics, environment, innovations
Specialty flexible packaging services provider Interflex Group has acquired Star Packaging from the US-based Azalea Capital. Azalea noted that the diverse product mix serves the pet food and treat, fresh produce, food and beverage, snack, ...
The Australian brand Organic Stevia Plant-derived sweetener stevia has been quietly gaining traction with consumers and usurping the traditional pecking order of more established sweeteners, according to a new report from market research ...
Tags: Organic Stevia, sweetener stevia, intense sweeteners, Food Research
The European Candy Group (TECG), a private label manufacturer owned by Bencis Capital Partners, has acquired a Dutch liquorice firm Kraepelien & Holm (K&H). This move is part of the group's efforts to obtain a leading position in ...
Tags: European Candy, Liquorice
Printpack plans to present its innovations at the easyFairs Packaging Innovations, which will held between 26 to 27 February 2014, in Birmingham, UK. The company intends to showcase its recent launches including innovative printing ...
Food items that are rich in sugar are referred to as Confectionery. To make such food items even more delicious, a variety of flavors like chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, etc, are added to them. In fact, there is a separate industry, Food & ...
When consumers head out for their everyday shopping needs, are they navigating the store on auto-pilot or are they open to new products and experiences? According to market research organisation Nielsen, the answer is anything but ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
However, producers may want to be more aggressive than normal in forward-pricing crops that provide acceptable profit. Projected crop budgets generally show some return to labor and management for 2014, although the price of most crops ...
Tags: crops, agriculture, projected crop budgets
Hershey Netherlands, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hershey, has signed an agreement to acquire 80% stake in Shanghai Golden Monkey Food JSC (SGM) for an undisclosed amount. Financial terms of the transaction were undisclosed. With ...
Tags: Hershey Netherlands, chocolate
Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate is geared up to invest around $48m in Belgian chocolate production facility in Mouscron, in a move to double the capacity over the next two years. The new production lines at the facility are scheduled to become ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Chocolate
Finnish pulp and paper manufacturer Stora Enso is set improve the efficiency and environmental performance of Tambrite packaging board by reducing the basis weight. The manufacturer will introduce the new, lower grammage range Tambrite ...
Tags: Stora Enso, Tambrite Packaging
Today, we entirely depend on supermarkets to fulfill our varied shopping needs. These are specifically built to provide best and fresh to buy. Several openings around the world reveals its increasing popularity among people. These of course ...
Willy Wonka is at it again. Not since Violet Beauregarde furiously chewed on a three-course meal piece of gum and suffered the consequences has the confectionery category seen such high levels of innovation and new product development ...