Food and non-food volume sales are falling, indicating ordinary people are not feeling the benefits of economic recovery in Europe and the UK yet, according to market analyst Information Resources (IRI). Commenting on the firm’s ...
Gerber Poultry has started using the 'Where Food Comes From' labeling program on its Gerber's Amish Farm Chicken products. The labeling program uses QR codes for smartphones to offer detailed information to its consumers regarding the ...
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CVSL Inc. and My Secret Kitchen, an award-winning United Kingdom-based direct seller of a unique line of food products, announced today that they have signed a letter of intent for My Secret Kitchen to become part of the CVSL family of ...
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Burcon NutraScience Corporation, a leader in functional, renewable plant proteins, reported results for the fiscal second quarter ended September 30, 2013. "During the quarter, we made continued strong progress toward commercializing ...
Use of food grade gum as additive is extensively used in the food and hospitality industry. One of the aspects of the gum is high stability. Basically it is a food additive and the use of this additive is meant for stabilizing the foods ...
Ramar Foods, a US-based specialty food products manufacturer, has selected Bloom Energy's clean energy fuel cell to power its manufacturing facility in Pittsburg, California. Claimed to help reduce the facility's CO2 emissions, the fuel ...
Plum Baby Foods, a UK-based organic food company, is voluntarily recalling some ready-to-eat baby food products due to a packaging defect that could potentially cause pouches to swell or spoil, The Food Standards Agency announced. ...
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Germany-based Weidenhammer Packaging Group (WPG) has agreed to acquire AR Packaging Group's (AR) subsidiaries A&R Carton Lund and Flextrus in Sweden. Under the deal, WPG will acquire AR's sites at Lund and Halmstad, as well as in ...
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GSC Packaging (www.gscpackaging.com) operates a state-of-the-art contract packaging facility, producing pouches, stick packs, envelopes and other flexible containers for packaging of food products and nutritional supplements. The entire ...
Tingyi, a Chinese instant noodle producer, is set to form a joint venture (JV) with Wakodo, the baby nutrition unit of Japanese beer maker Asahi, to sell infant milk formula in China in response to increasing consumer demand for quality ...
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Tingyi, a Chinese instant noodle producer, is planning to form a joint venture with Wakodo, the baby nutrition unit of Japanese beer maker Asahi, to sell infant milk formula in China in response to increasing consumer demand for quality ...
Tags: Tingyi, Infant Milk Formula
The U.S. stand-up pouch market has seen dramatic growth over the past five years, increasing by 50 percent in unit volume terms to approaching 17 billion units in 2013. Beverages and pet food are the largest end use categories, each ...
UK-based packaging technology provider TCL Packaging in partnership with Rofin-Baasel is introducing a new laser micro perforation and scribing system. The system comes with three scanning heads featuring Rofin two-axis technology and ...
Cargo theft and cattle rustling are crippling crimes for farmers and ranchers. Theft may take the form of one big grab and run, or it may be the death-of-a-thousand-cuts. A tiny sampling of recent cargo hits from the Associated Press: In ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
The supervision of cocoa businesses will be increased amid health concerns relating to the use of powdered shells instead of cocoa powder in food products. Supervision over the use of imported cocoa shells as well as manufacturers of ...
Tags: Cocoa Industry