Tesco meat packer Hilton Food Group has reported "good progress" in a number of its western European markets for the past quarter (third quarter) to November 5. Declines in meat sales were driven by horsegate The Huntingdon-based ...
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Four foreign journalists were honored with Press Freedom Awards Tuesday evening recognizing their work in the face of severe reprisals, including physical threats and imprisonment. The Committee to Protect Journalists' 2013 International ...
Greencore’s full-year results reveal both the resilience of the convenience foods sector, after the horsemeat scandal, and the potential for earnings per share growth next year, according to City analyst Panmure Gordon. Greencore ...
Food traceability will become more important for the supply chain industry, according to Advanced Business Solutions. The software provider is advising supply chain logistics companies that unless they invest in the right technology to ...
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Seoul-based LIG Group is planning to divest all shares of its nonlife insurance division, as part of its strategy to gather the required funds to compensate investors for losses from a financial fraud scandal in 2011. Unveiling its ...
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The true cost of fossil fuel reaches far beyond what is paid at the gas pump -- the expense of waging war to protect oil interests, governmental corruption, global warming and environmental destruction all are part of the equation. And ...
Secure email providers Lavabit and Silent Circle have formed a partnership they call the Dark Mail Alliance, with the intention of creating a secure email service that can thwart government surveillance. According to security news site ...
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Profits fell for Boparan Holdings, holding company for 2 Sisters Food Group, in the past financial year, dented by the integration of Vion's meat processing plants. Boparan: 'trading conditions have been very tough' Reporting on results ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Meat
Across large parts of the world Christmas is fast approaching. Retail stores are already stocking the usual tat associated with the festivity while young children begin to prepare their wish lists. Those who have behaved well this year or ...
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The sophistication of information gleaned from "big data" has reached such a level that it is starting to impinge on privacy, warns Menno van Doorn, a director at VINT Research, which is part of the Sogeti IT services company. Van Doorn ...
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Andrew Parker, Director General, MI5 The head of MI5 has said that the Prism data leaks scandal has damaged the UK’s efforts to counter terrorism. Speaking at the Royal United Services Institute in London last night, director ...
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Hong Kong has had enough of mainland mothers emptying the region's shelves of imported baby formula. The government there will fine people up to US$64,000 and potentially throw them in jail for up to two years if they're caught carrying too ...
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National Development and Reform Commission of China (NDRC) was said to convene several meetings to discuss the possibility to withdraw natural gas pipeline business from PetroChina (SHSE:601857) with a purpose to further rationalize the ...
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Leading Chinese insulin producer Gan & Lee Pharmaceuticals is brought under the limelight due to a bribery scandal. People in the know disclosed in an interview on September 9 that it was established in Beijing in 1998 and as the sole ...
Companies in China, whose tainted milk powder scandal in 2008 left six dead and more than 300,000 sick, are vaunting tie-ups with French dairies to shore up their image but some fear this could backfire for Paris. Chinese firm Biostime ...
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