Food firm Kerry Group has posted promising half yearly figures despite UK brands flat-lining in spreads and frozen food as a result of heavy promotions and the horsemeat effect. While the firm’s Richmond sausages, Wall’s ...
Tags: Kerry Food
French dairy firm Danone has acquired YoCrunch, a US-based company which produces yogurt with crunchy toppings such as M&Ms and Oreo, for an undisclosed amount. Established in 1985, YoCrunch is a leading producer of yogurts with mix-in ...
Tags: dairy firm, Yogurt
China's consumer quality watchdog issued a warning Monday morning over two potentially tainted New Zealand-made Karicare-brand infant formula products because of botulism concerns. The General Administration of Quality Supervision, ...
Tags: NZ Milk
Omega Protein, a US-based nutritional product company, plans to invest $20m to expand its specialty dairy protein production facility in Reedsburg, Wisconsin. The expansion, which is expected to be completed by mid-2014, will ...
Tags: Omega Protein, Dairy Protein
Irish bakery brand BFree has unveiled new Multigrain Wraps in the UK, a development which marks the brand's foray into the UK market. The new BFree Multigrain Wraps are dairy-free, egg-free, high in fibre, low in fat and contain only 99 ...
Tags: Multigrain Wraps, BFree
Could desalination technology help California farmers? Central Coast grape growers want new water district Can fire ant venom stop plant pathogens? Crop report season in California continues. For the larger agricultural producing ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Consumer Prices for July 2013 National Bureau of Statistics of China 2013-08-09 13:20:50 In July, the consumer price index (CPI) went up by 2.7 percent year-on-year. The prices grew by 2.6 percent in cities and 2.9 percent in rural areas. ...
Tags: china, economy, Consumer Prices
China has levied a record fine of US$109 million (RMB668 million) on six baby formula producers as part of an anti-competition probe, South China Morning Post reported. The six companies under fire were Biostime, Mead Johnson, Abbott, ...
Tags: Baby Formula
China has levied a record fine of US$109 million (RMB668 million) on six baby formula producers as part of an anti-competition probe, South China Morning Post reported. The six companies under fire were Biostime, Mead Johnson, Abbott, ...
Tags: Argentine Corn
China's food watchdog, the State Food and Drug Administration, has released information on nearly 130 milk powder producers that are authorized to sell their products. It is also tightening regulation on the production of infant formula. ...
China has halted all milk powder imports from New Zealand after a bacteria that could cause botulism was discovered in products from the country's biggest milk exporter Fonterra, South China Morning Post reported. China is the largest ...
Tags: Zealand Milk Powder
China’s stocks rose for a fifth day on Monday, continuing their longest stretch of gains in two months thanks to a services gauge that rose for the first time since March, Bloomberg reported. Shanghai Friendship Group (600827.SHA) and ...
Tags: China Stocks
Global food and pharmaceutical products testing provider Eurofins Scientific has entered into an outsourcing agreement with French dairy firm Danone to acquire the latter's laboratory for infant nutrition analysis, Central Laboratories ...
Arla Foods has completed the sale of British milk drinks business Crediton Dairy to a management buy-out team led by former Milk Link chief executive Neil Kennedy and former Milk Link group finance director Tim Smiddy after obtaining of ...
Tags: Arla Foods, Milk Drinks
China, Vietnam and Russia have imposed an import ban on milk powder and whey protein from the New Zealand-based Fonterra after the dairy co-operative warned that a batch of whey powder produced in 2012 may be contaminated with bacteria that ...