With the exception of just a handful of acres relative to the entire nation, the 2014 corn and soybean crop is essentially in the books. Monday's USDA-NASS Crop Progress report shows 94% of the nation's corn crop and 97% of its soybeans ...
Tags: soybean crop, corn, Agriculture
Need a recipe for the perfect Thanksgiving meal? Start your holiday meal off right with an ounce of fire prevention and add a pound of food safety. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), the U.S. Fire Administration (USFA), ...
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Danone Nutricia Early Life Nutrition has increased capacity with its extended infant formula production line in Wexford, Ireland. The expansion is said to form a part of the company's €180m investment programme at its Irish ...
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British food and drinks companies are losing over £11.2bn to fraud and error annually which is equal to over 85% of their total profits. The food and drink industry can boost its profitability by £4.48bn, or more than 34% ...
Tags: Food Firms, Fraud, Agriculture
Nellson Nutraceutical has agreed to acquire Canadian nutritional and snack bars producer Le Groupe Multibar for an undisclosed amount. An agreement to this effect was signed between both the companies. The transaction, which is ...
America's PerkinElmer is set to acquire Perten Instruments Group, supplier of advanced analytical instruments for quality control of food, grain, flour and feed. The net purchase price of the deal is around $266m and the transaction is ...
Tags: grain, flour, feed, Agriculture
Philippines Government officials have seized 150kg of frozen meat products worth P20,000 ($444) from Quezon City. GMA News reported citing radio dzBB's James Agustin that the National Meat Inspection Service (NMIS) captured the meat from ...
Tags: frozen meat, Agriculture
Russia’s veterinary and phytosanitary watchdog has banned the import of meat and dairy products from eight Belarussian companies. The banned companies include Agrokombinat Skidelsky, Vitebsk Broiler Poultry Plant, Servolux Agro, ...
Tags: Meat, dairy imports, Agriculture
Absolut Elyx - the first single-estate, luxury vodka - will create a private pop-up club, Casa Elyx during Art Basel's Miami Beach show this year. Inspired by the effervescent creativity arising out of Latin America, and Miami's position ...
Finland-based packaging company Huhtamaki will be selling its films business to German private equity company Deutsche Beteiligungs for $175m (€141m). Huhtamaki is known for supplying paper cups to McDonald's. The company stated ...
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Coca-Cola is planning to launch new Fairlife milk across the US, with a strategy to expand profits. Expected to cost almost double the standard milk currently sold, Fairlife milk will be available for sale from December. Coca-Cola ...
Packaging solutions provider Multivac has launched a packaging solution R 900 for filling water beakers for the first time. The solution has been designed for the portion packing of drinking water and has the capacity to produce up to ...
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Danone Nutricia Early Life Nutrition has opened its extended infant formula production line in Wexford, Ireland. The expansion forms part of the company's €180m investment programme in its Irish operations in Macroom and Wexford. ...
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Keyway Innovations has launched Qi teamaker, which is said to be the world's first app-enabled tea maker with an innovative patent-pending brewing system. They have just launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign and needs your support ...
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Global brewing major SABMiller has agreed to expand its product presence to Brazil, under a partnership with Grupo Petropolis. Earlier in 2012, the company terminated its operations in Brazil citing a difficult exchange rate that made ...
Tags: Beer Market, SABMiller, Agriculture