Shrink hooding, stretch wrapping and stretch hooding are emerging as the most effective palletising packaging techniques on the market, and the Beumer Group is offering solutions in these areas. Stretch hooding has been efficient in ...
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Cereal maker Post Holdings is planning to consolidate its ready-to-eat cereal business with MOM Brands, a move that will put around 200 jobs at risk. The new business, Post Consumer Brands, will be moved to Minnesota. The company will ...
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Italian coffee company Massimo Zanetti Beverage Group (MZB Group) has bought the production and distribution network of CECA S.A., a subsidiary of the German Neumann Kaffee Gruppe. Expanding its footprint in the Costa Rican market, MZB ...
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The pace of growth in the global chocolate market slowed in 2014 as the industry faced challenges stemming from increased cocoa prices, according to findings from market research organisation Mintel. However, chocolate innovation ...
The World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) and Cote d'Ivoire's Conseil du Café-Cacao have reached an agreement to improve cocoa planting material. This new agreement is part of the Ivorian government's 2QC national cocoa strategy. WCF ...
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Endangered Species Chocolate (ESC) has added three new 60% cocoa bars to broaden its Natural Bar product range. The new products include dark chocolate with lemon poppy seed, dark chocolate with blackberry sage and dark chocolate with ...
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French chocolate manufacturer CEMOI is planning to launch a factory in Ivory Coast, targeting the local and West African market, a company official said. CEMOI senior employee in Ivory Coast was quoted by Reuters as saying: "I can ...
Hershey is planning to reformulate its products by using simple and easy-to-understand ingredients. This forms a part of the company's strategy to responsibly source ingredients it uses in its product range. The company will use ...
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Chinese chocolate market would see a $4.3bn growth by 2019, a 60% increase from $2.7bn in 2014, says chocolate manufacturer Hershey. Hershey president Bert Alfonso told Reuters that the growth will be driven by demand from the growing ...
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US-based chocolate manufacturer Hershey has decided to use genetically modified (GM)-free ingredients in its chocolate products. The firm said that its milk chocolate bars as well as chocolate drop 'Kisses' packs would no more contain ...
The European Commission has started an in-depth investigation into Cargill's planned acquisition of Archer Daniels Midland's (ADM) chocolate business, as the $440m deal could lead to higher prices of chocolates. During a preliminary ...
Swiss chocolate maker Barry Callebaut has agreed to acquire industrial chocolate manufacturing assets from US-based World's Finest Chocolate. Both the companies have signed a new long-term outsourcing agreement to this effect. As per ...
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Mondelez International and FLOCERT, a socially focused global certification body, have entered into a new partnership to authenticate cocoa volumes and commercial transactions for the company's $400m Cocoa Life program. Cocoa Life will ...
Cereal maker Post Holdings has agreed to acquire ready-to-eat and natural cereals producer MOM Brands, in a $1.15bn deal. An agreement to this effect was signed by MOM Brands. MOM Brands offers Malt-O-Meal brand ready-to-eat cereals, ...
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Swiss chocolate maker Barry Callebaut has warned that its results could be impacted by strong Swiss franc. The chocolate maker said that as 99% of Barry Callebaut's business is done outside of Switzerland, it had minimal operational ...
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