US-based investment firm Joshua Green has announced the acquisition of Harris Soup through its food-focused subsidiary, JGC Foods, for an undisclosed amount. Harris Soup, doing business as Harry's Fresh Foods, offers premium refrigerated ...
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McErlain’s Bakery, a family business based in Magherafelt, Northern Ireland, UK, has announced expansion plans, a move which will create 100 new production jobs. The expansion was announced by Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster. ...
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You don't have to consume a lot of business news to see transparency as an issue in the food industry. Whether the topic is pink slime in McDonald's burgers, Whole Foods promising to label products with genetically modified ingredients, or ...
A leading official from China's food and drug watchdog has called for enhanced testing to tackle outstanding issues in the country's food and drug sector. Sun Xianze, a member of the Communist Party of China group of the China Food and ...
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Packline Materials Handling has launched new ‘rotating cradle arms’ lifting attachment, which enables rolls of material, handled by the roll’s internal mandrel, to be lowered in to a shrink-wrap machine. The company ...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has published a new regulation, under which products labeled gluten-free must contain less than 20 parts per million of gluten. The regulation has been issued in order to provide a uniform ...
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Mondi Ibersac has been certified with the British Retail Consortium/Institute of Packaging (BRC/IoP) standard, which is important for customers in the food industry specifically. Mondi Industrial Bags Spain is said to be the first ...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has published a new regulation defining the term gluten-free for voluntary food labeling, in order to provide a uniform standard definition to help up to 3 million Americans who have celiac disease. ...
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Workers are planning strike action at Premier Foods' Wigan bakery over use of agency labour and shift pattern changes, while the firm's bakeries at Birmingham and Greenford shut on schedule. Premier Foods makes Hovis-branded products at ...
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Contract packaging company Tech Packaging has announced plans to invest more than 12.4m in a bid to expand and equip its facility in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, US. Recently, the company purchased 32 acres of land in the Humboldt ...
Capable of speeds up to 100 a minute in reclosable, MAP mode, the new Scirocco-ZIP uses either zipper or mini-hook profile yet can be changed over to produce pillow packs at speeds up to 150 a minute in less than 20 minutes, according to ...
This week it has been revealed the 2013 targets set by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) to reduce campylobacter levels in chicken have not been hit. The FSA targets aimed to decrease the number of contaminated birds in the UK from 27% to 19% ...
Noble Foods is investing £9M in an extra egg-packing facility at Witney, near Oxford for its Shell Egg division. The company, a leading supplier of fresh eggs to major retailers, aims to complete the construction project early next ...
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Premier Foods announced the deal with 2 Sisters over Hovis Breakfast Bakes last week "I think we will see an increasing number of this sort of deal. There's no point in investing in manufacturing if someone else has got the expertise," ...
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Changing consumer demand in terms of fashion and quality has sustained the development of the mature and saturated workwear and uniforms market in Western Europe. As the need for traditional blue workwear decreases, existing suppliers are ...
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