The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a legal settlement with Losurdo Foods Inc. of Heuvelton, New York that will reduce the amount of pollutants the company discharges to the municipal water treatment plant. Losurdo has agreed ...
Urban Barns Foods Canada, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Urban Barns Foods, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Sobeys Quebec to establish a collaborative business relationship between the two businesses. The deal will see ...
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Kind Healthy Snacks, a natural foods company based in New York, and Garden of Life have reached a settlement related to a trademark infringement lawsuit brought by the former in response to Garden of Life's launch of the Kind Organics line ...
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The chocolate pralines are crafted in Europe, and special attention has been taken post production in designing and packaging. The design and manufacture of the packs was a joint collaboration with Pearlfisher, AiR Innovation, Multi ...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is weighing an antitrust lawsuit against the $3.5bn merger of Sysco and US Foods which was announced in December. FTC has been investigating the proposed merger, which according to it, has the potential ...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded an environmental education grant of $81,600 to Mesa Community College for the development of a cutting-edge “Center for Urban Agriculture” program which will include a degree ...
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Australian private equity firm Archer Capital is looking for a joint venture (JV) partner in Asia for its Brownes Dairy unit. As reported in the Wall Street Journal, the move comes in response to the dominance of retailers, which have ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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US-based Back to Nature Foods has introduced a new range of artisanal soups to its existing product portfolio. Made with ancient grains, the soups are available in variant flavors such as Chicken & Wild Rice with Kamut, gluten-free ...
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United Natural Foods reported fourth-quarter (Q4) net income of $33.4m, as against $32m in the corresponding period a year ago. Revenues for the quarter were up 7.4% at $1.76bn compared with $1.64bn in the prior year. Gross margin was ...
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Soups producer Vanee Foods has announced a new high-speed hot fill bottling line at its Broadview manufacturing facility in the US state of Illinois. The company has invested around $8m in the new bottling line, which has the capacity to ...
Arla Foods is making a non-binding bid for a majority stake in Arab Dairy Products Company, a listed company based in Cairo, Egypt. The bid of 65 Egyptian pounds per share is dependent on a satisfactory due diligence of the dairy company ...
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US-based food products manufacturer Vanee Foods Company will invest close to $8m in a high-speed hot fill bottling line. Based at the company's Broadview manufacturing facility, the new facility will fill bottles ranging in size from 8 fl ...
Japanese food producer Ajinomoto has agreed to acquire US-based frozen food maker Windsor Quality for $800m. Windsor has seven production facilities throughout the US and strong brands/positions in Asian, Mexican, Italian and appetizer ...
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