Kraft Heinz is planning to expand its cream cheese manufacturing facility in Lowville, which will see 100 new employees being hired over the next five years. Currently, the Lowville plant, which makes Philadelphia brand cream cheese, ...
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Cargill is set to invest $111m to transform its ground beef facility in Columbus, Nebraska, to cooked meats facility. This conversion, which will begin in early December this year, will enable the company to produce specific types of ...
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The UK Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs' (DEFRA) report has supported the use of new video imaging and infrared technology to estimate fat content and meat quality of carcasses in abattoirs. The technology, launched in ...
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While many domestic cosmetics brands are challenging international giants like L'Oreal and Estee Lauder in China, one brand is slowly encroaching on their home turf. Herborist, a herbal medicine-based cosmetics line owned by Shanghai ...
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Dawn Meats has received approval for the proposed acquisition of a 49% stake in French beef and veal processor Elivia from the EU Competition Commission. Upon completion of the deal, Dawn Meats will have an option to increase its ...
Russian food safety agency Rosselkhoznadzo has imposed a temporary ban on meat product imports from ten processing plants in Brazil. The agency said that the processing plants in Brazil have failed to comply with phytosanitary measures, ...
Brazilian meat processor JBS is exploring opportunities for possible acquisitions in North and South America and Australia. The company will consider acquisitions in the chicken, pork and branded, packaged food industries this year, ...
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Brazilian food company BRF is set to establish a joint venture with UK-based Invicta Food Group to distribute processed foods in Britain, Ireland and Scandinavia. Reuters reported citing a securities filing that the company's ...
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Private equity firm Fanisi Capital has invested $2.1m in a Kenyan food company European Foods Africa Limited (EFAL) to expand its investment footprint across East Africa’s food processing sector. The food company will use this fund ...
Dunbia Northern Ireland, part of the Dunbia Group, is set to invest 27m to create a new intelligent boning hall and upgrade the company's beef mince line as well as diced & burger line at its Tyrone meat processing plant. The company's ...
Denmark’s meat processing company Danish Crown and meat marketer Westfleisch are set to form a joint venture aimed at deboning and sales of sow meat. Both the companies will have an equal share in the new venture called ...
The Australian Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB) has approved $1.13bn bid by JBS USA to acquire Australian Consolidated Food Holdings (Primo), said treasurer Joe Hockey. With this approval, US subsidiary of the Brazilian meat ...
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US-based establishment Golden State Foods is planning to establish a new meat processing facility in Opelika, in the US state of Alabama. To be located in the Northeast Opelika Industrial Park, the proposed facility will see an ...
Russia’s meat company Cherkizovo announced that poultry sales have increased 22% year-on-year to 416,622 tonnes. While sales price for poultry grew by 18% in ruble terms, pork sales increased by 8% to 170,172 tonnes in 2014. Sales ...
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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