Potato chips remain Australia’s favourite snack food When it comes to the nation’s most popular snacks, it seems Australians’ tastes tend more towards savoury than sweet. Potato chips are a favourite — 41 per cent ...
Tags: Snacks, Potato chips, Agriculture
FLEXcon has introduced a new PVDC-coated film, known as optiFLEX RESEAL BARRIER Clear, to address the growing demand for resealable food packaging. The new offering, which will serve as a barrier against moisture to maintain food ...
Tags: FLEXcon, PVDC-coated film, Packaging
Melbourne-based snack manufacturer Funch has launched a range of snack food pre-mixes in Australia, which it says is part of the “next generation of snack foods” that appeal to consumers wanting to eat healthily. The ...
Tags: Snack Foods, sunflower seeds, cacao, coconut, Agriculture
Australia’s snacking habits revealed, Nielsen Eating between meals is extremely widespread with 96 per cent of Australians saying they regularly consume snack foods, according to new research from global market research ...
Tags: snack foods, Fruit, Agriculture
Hershey has acquired an 80% stake in the Shanghai Golden Monkey Food Joint Stock (SGM), a privately held confectionery company based in Shanghai, China. Shanghai Golden Monkey Food Company product range includes Golden Monkey candy, ...
UK-based packaging firm Universal Flexible Packaging (UFP) has invested £11m at a new facility that will help them boost their annual turnover from the current £17m to £25m in three years. The firm will be relocating ...
Tags: Flexible Packaging, Packaging
Pepsi Cola Products Philippines (PCPPI) is investing PHP650m ($14.5m) to build a new snack foods manufacturing facility in the Philippines. Expected to be initiated in the second half of 2015, the new manufacturing facility will produce, ...
Tags: Pepsi, Cola Products
Universal Robina, a subsidiary of Philippines' JG Summit Holdings, is set to acquire New Zealand-based Griffin's Foods from Australian Pacific Equity Partners (PEP) for about NZ$700m ($609m). Universal already has presence in Thailand, ...
Tags: Universal Robina, Griffin's Foods, Food
New Jersey-based J&J Snack Foods Corp. (JJSF) proudly introduces Minute Maid 100% Frozen Juice Bars. Minute Maid 100% Juice Bars are naturally flavored and made with apple juice from concentrate and added ingredients. Hitting shelves this ...
Tags: Snack Foods, Juice Bars
Snyder's-Lance has completed the acquisition of Baptista's Bakery, a producer of baked snack foods and 'better for you' snacks. The deal was originally announced on 7 May 2014. Financial details of the acquisition have not been disclosed. ...
Tags: Bakery, snack foods
Packaging solutions provider Ampac has introduced new packaging format, E-Z SnackPak, which is said to act as an alternative to the typical single serve VFFS snack food bag. According to the company, the new E-Z SnackPak technology offers ...
Tags: Food Packaging, Packaging, Printing
Snyder's-Lance, a US-based salty snack maker, has agreed to buy Baptista's Bakery, a producer of baked snack foods and 'better for you' snacks. As part of the agreement, Snyder's-Lance will acquire 100% stake in Baptista's Bakery, and its ...
Tags: Snack Foods, Baptista's Bakery
Global high barrier packaging film consumption is at approximately 1.76 million tonnes in 2014 with a value of $15.9 billion. This is forecast to grow at a CAGR of 5.0% between 2014 and 2019 according to a new market report by Smithers ...
US-based J & J Snack Foods has reported a 13% rise in H1 2014 net earnings to $25.9m, compared to $22.9m in the corresponding period a year ago. The company posted an increase in its sales by 4% to $408.8m from $392.8m in the first six ...
Tags: Snack Foods, Agriculture, Food
An example of 'innovative' nut varieties The share of nuts in global snack foods launches has risen steadily in recent years as nuts have found increasing favour as convenient and nutritious snacks and technology has allowed development ...