American retailer The Kroger Co has announced its commitment to source sustainable palm oil by the end of 2015. In a policy statement, the company said that Palm oil has become the leading oil crop in the world and currently accounts for ...
Food packaging manufacturer in the UK Sirane has announced the launch of a new cooking bag which is suitable for meat, fish, poultry and vegetables. Sirane managing director Simon Balderson said the company's new Sira-Cook Supreme cooking ...
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M&S delivers strongest quarterly sales growth in the last two years -Group sales +3.1% -Total UK sales +2.6%: Food +6.3%; GM –2.2% -Like for like UK sales +0.6%: Food +4.0%; GM –3.8% -Multi-channel sales +22.9% ...
Tags: Marks&Spencer, Global Sales
A major challenge that organic and sustainable brands face is how to break through the green glass ceiling. How can such brands break out of their niche status and gain a mainstream following? How can they maintain their core green values, ...
US-based chemical company FMC has acquired the pectin-related intellectual property developed by Vigido, a subsidiary of UniPektin Ingredients. Vigido is the former exclusive marketer of the pectin products of Pectine Italia, a company ...
Tags: FMC, Pectin Intellectual Property, Vigido
Toray Industries has announced a JPY3bn ($32m) investment in Asia to strengthen its vapor deposition capabilities for food packaging films. As part of the expansion plan, Toray Advanced Film (TAF) will introduce state-of-the-art vapor ...
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Intelligent Packaging Solutions (IPS), a UK-based supplier of plastic packaging for food industry, has introduced a new frozen ready meal packaging format - Desto cup. The new Desto cup is made with a lightweight, clear plastic inlet, ...
Food packaging manufacturer Seda UK said that it is investing £18m over the next five years in a major expansion at its Blackwood facility and creating 70 new jobs The Welsh firm also said that it was safeguarding more than 170 ...
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) has published the second round of the food industry’s own tests, which were carried out over the last three weeks. The tests revealed that a total of three samples contained horsemeat. A ...
Tags: Foods, horsemeat, Foods products
A beef ready meal manufacturer is fighting to preserve the 750 jobs at its Somerset site, as sales fall in the wake of the horsemeat scandal. Oscar Mayer supplies chilled ready meals to Sainsbury, which has seen reduced sales of ...
US-based chemical company cThe investment is a part of the company's strategy to supply its MCC to cThe new facility is expected to commence production in late 2014 and will feature MCC production, blending, packaging and warehousing. The ...
US-based RiceBran Technologies has announced plans to launch a new line of ingredients based on rice bran protein, under the PRORYZA brand. The company stated that the PRORYZA rice bran protein ingredients will be produced using methods ...
Buying traceable, local and British food has risen “substantially” up consumers’ agendas since the horsemeat scandal, according to the latest research from Mintel. The horsemeat scandal had made consumers more aware of ...
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c at the University of Lincoln are working to develop a flexible computer system that can be used to identify the defects in food products and packaging on the production line. The new multi-purpose imaging technology will be created by ...
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The 2 Sisters Food Group expects the horsemeat scandal to cause "considerable volume reduction" to its ready meals business, according to its latest financial results for the 13 weeks to January 26. 2 Sisters said the horsemeat crisis ...
Tags: Horsemeat, Food Group, Food