2 Sisters Food, a UK-based chicken meat processing company, has entered into an agreement to acquire Dutch food firm Vion's red meat and poultry activities for an undisclosed sum. Under the terms of the deal, 2 Sisters Food will acquire ...
Ireland-based food ingredients and flavors group Kerry has completed the acquisition of South Africa-based sweet ingredient solutions supplier Orley Foods for an undisclosed sum. Kerry noted that this acquisition is in line with its plan ...
P&B Foods is recalling certain batch codes of Heera and Parivar brand coriander seeds in the UK because of possible insect contamination, according to the Food Standards Agency (FSA). The products being recalled are Heera Small Coriander ...
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Linde North America and Shick have launched a newly renovated test facility that combines precise temperature control with pneumatic ingredient-conveying solutions. Featuring a pneumatic conveyor equipped with a CO2 injection chilling ...
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Genius Foods will invest millions of pounds developing the Livwell and United Central Bakery (UCB) production sites in Hull and West Lothian, following the firm's 21M acquisition of the companies last week. Genius boss Roz Cuschieri ...
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Spanish designer and manufacturer of packaging systems Ulma Packaging has launched its new horizontal flow pack wrapper (HFFS) FR 305 for the bakery industry - cakes, cookies, chocolates, confectionery and sweet, and for produce packaging. ...
UK-based bakery products manufacturer Finsbury Food has sold its free-from bakery business to Scottish firm Genius Foods for pound 21m, as part of its efforts to focus on core cake and bread businesses. The sale includes two subsidiaries ...
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Finsbury Food Group has sold its free-from business to Genius Foods for Pound 21M to focus on its core bread and cake business and reduce debt. Genius Foods has a 50% share of the UK gluten-free bread market The free-from business ...
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US-based baking company Flower Foods has acquired the perpetual, exclusive, and royalty-free licenses to the Sara Lee and Earthgrains brands for sliced breads, buns, and rolls in California from Grupo Bimbo's subsidiary BBU for an ...
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US snack manufacturer Snyder's-Lance is to close its bakery facility in Ontario as part of a company-wide review. In a statement yesterday (25 February), the firm said its plant in Cambridge will close on 17 May. The company did not say ...
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Associated British Foods has forecast flat revenue from its grocery division in the first half of its fiscal year amid challenging conditions in bread markets in the UK and Australia. ABF, which owns the Kingsmill bread brand in the UK ...
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A Huddersfield pie manufacturer has been found guilty of health and safety breaches that killed a factory worker in a gas oven explosion. The site after the explosion in 2009 Andrew Jones Pies was prosecuted by the Health and Safety ...
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Swiss food company Aryzta has entered into an agreement to acquire Klemme, a leading bakery in Germany, for EUR280m, as part of a strategy to strengthen its presence in the region. Klemme, established in 1991, operates seven bakeries with ...
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Swiss bakery giant Aryzta is to buy German peer Klemme in a bid to expand its business with the country's retailers. Aryzta said the EUR280m (US$376m) deal, which remains subject to Germany's competition authorities, would make it a ...
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Bimbo Bakeries USA, the American arm of Mexican baking company Grupo Bimbo, is voluntarily recalling its bakery products across the US due to the possible presence of flexible wire. According to the company, the fault has been caused due ...