India is mulling over imposing stock holding restrictions on food commodities including pulses and edible oils, in order to control the increase in prices. According to Food Minister K V Thomas, the government is closely evaluating the ...
Tags: restrictions on food commodities, pulses and edible oils
Australian grain handler GrainCorp has agreed to acquire Australian oilseed crusher Gardner Smith for A$302m ($313.82m) as well as Goodman Fielder's commercial oils business Integro Foods for A$170m ($176.65m). The deals, which represent ...
Tags: commercial oils business, edible oil sector, leading oilseed crusher
German packaging company Bericap Holding’s Indian arm will widen its product portfolio in the country this year. The company plans to foray into specialty segments such as lube and edible oils and expand in the bottle water segment. ...
Tags: Bericap, product portfolio, specialty segments, bottle water segmen
India may lower the quantity of imports of pulses and edible oil in response to non-availability of sufficient produce worldwide,which may in turn lead to increase in prices in the country in near future. In India,the production of oil ...
Tags: pulses, edible oil, rain
Flour Mills of Nigeria plans to invest N200bn($1.25bn)in various projects,in order to boost food production in Nigeria. The plan was disclosed by the company's chairman George Coumantaros at its 52nd annual general meeting in Lagos. ...
Tags: Flour Mills, food production, pasta
The Indian Government said that this move will allow firms to conveniently switch to uniform norms for selling their products. With the revision, its now mandatory for FMCG companies to pack and sell products such as biscuits and milk ...
Tags: Packaging Norm, India, Indian packaging, Fmcg Firms
Roberts PolyPro, a producer of product packaging lines based in the US, and a subsidiary of Pro Mach, will launch a bottle handle applicator at forthcoming Pack Expo 2012. With a capacity of 20 cases per minute, the new Inline ...
India has amended a regulation,which makes it mandatory for FMCG firms to sell products such as biscuits and milk powder in standard sizes.The new regulation will go into effect beginning 1 November 2012. This move comes after the ...
Tags: regulation, standard sizes, FMCG, packaged products
Bottles made of PET are recycled to reuse the material out of which they are made and to reduce the amount of waste going to landfills. In many countries, PET plastics are coded with the resin identification code number "1" inside the ...