The plastic pots for Simpson’s of Manchester’s Christmas Puddings that are being sold exclusively through Spar supermarkets for the 2014 season have been supplied by RPC Bebo UK. Simpson's which is a family-run business ...
Tags: Packages, Christmas Puddings
Packed basmati rice provider Amira Nature Foods has joined hands with 7,500 farmer families in India to develop 12,000 hectares of land for organic crops. As part of this development, Amira plans to deliver technical guidance, marketing ...
Tags: technical guidance, farming, Agriculture
Nutroganics has inked a letter of intent to acquire certain assets of soy yogurt brand Wholesoy for an undisclosed amount. Wholesoy offers organic, non-gmo verified, soy yogurt to natural foods retailers such as Whole Foods and specialty ...
Tags: soy yogurt, Agriculture
Chicago-based Kronos Foods has signed a licensing agreement with Meyer Family Farms in Adams County, Illinois, to market, sell and distribute frozen pomegranate arils. With this agreement, Kronos Foods will be able to offer pomegranate ...
Tags: Kronos Foods, pomegranate arils, Agriculture
As the end of 2014 draws near, Canadean forecasts the top trends which will influence consumer behaviour in 2015, and provides an insight into how manufacturers and marketers can target these evolving consumer needs to drive sales over the ...
Tags: craft offerings, FMCG market, Agriculture
British food firm Premier Foods has agreed to reconsider its controversial scheme of receiving payments from suppliers in return for contracts. The company faced severe criticism after a report revealed that it had received millions of ...
Tags: British food, Agriculture
The UK’s Food Standards Agency (FSA) has published the cumulative results from the first two quarters of its year-long survey of campylobacter on fresh chickens, which showed that 70 per cent of chicken sold in UK supermarkets were ...
Tags: Chicken, Campylobacter Bacteria
White House Rural Council and six federal agencies have selected 26 communities to be part of a federal initiative called Local Foods, Local Places. This initiative aims to provide technical support to integrate local food systems into ...
United Natural Foods reported financial results for the first quarter of fiscal 2015 ended November 1, 2014. First Quarter Fiscal 2015 Highlights Net sales increased 24.4% to $1.99 billion compared to $1.60 billion for the same period ...
Tags: Natural Foods, Agriculture
American-style cheese manufacturer Glanbia Foods is set to invest $82m in a bid to expand its manufacturing and production plants in Gooding and Twin Falls, Idaho, US. With this investment in manufacturing processes, Glanbia aims to ...
Lamb Weston / Meijer, a joint venture between US-based ConAgra Foods Lamb Weston and Netherlands’ Meijer Frozen Food is set to invest around $150m to expand its frozen potato facility in Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands. Adding a ...
Tags: frozen potato, Agriculture
UK-based RPC Containers Corby has invested in a new Injection Stretch Blow Moulding (ISBM) technology, enabling the company to offer its established high barrier PP/EVOH/PP containers with enhanced transparency. According to the ...
Tags: Injection Stretch Blow Moulding technology, Agriculture
Japanese retail packaging is as culturally unique to Japan as its language, traditional dress and customs, and it took four days at Tokyo Pack 2014 to begin to make sense of characteristic traits in pack construction and consumer ...
Tags: retail packaging, Packaging
Private equity firm American Capital has invested $31.5m to support the acquisition deal of Teasdale Foods by Snow Phipps Group that happened in October this year. Teasdale Foods offers private label and branded bean and hominy products ...
HJ Heinz has opened its new $70m infant cereal production plant in Foshan City, Guangdong Province, China, a move that will create 200 new jobs. The new plant, which is the company's largest infant cereal production plant across the ...
Tags: Infant Cereal, Agriculture