The top two stories on just-food's pages this week included Barry Callebaut's deal to buy Petra Foods' cocoa ingredients business and the European Commission's warning it will come forward with ideas for a grocery code adjudicator next ...
Tags: Barry Callebaut, Petra Foods, cocoa, grocery code adjudicator
Kosher (also kashrut, kashrus or kashruth) signifies food that meets with Jewish dietary law. Kosher certification plays a very important role in increasing the sales of a food company. The Badatz Igud Rabbonim KIR is one of the largest ...
Tags: Kosher, food, certification
Weissenhorner Milch Manufaktur, Weissenhorn, Germany, produces a line of premium dairy products that feature a subtle packaging design that exudes refined pleasure. The basic cup shapes generally resemble those of widely available creamery ...
Tags: New Dairy Line, Long on Flexibility, Space, Packaging
News of the acquisition comes just a month after BWAY Corporation was bought by private equity house Platinum Equity – which also owns Contego Packaging in the UK. In a statement, Louis Samson, a partner at Platinum Equity, said ...
Tags: Linpac, North American Business Ropak, BWAY Corporation, Louis Samson
US-based 3M Food Safety has achieved NF Validation mark for its Molecular Detection Assay Salmonella from AFNOR Certification. The Salmonella assay was among three pathogen test cases that the company unveiled, following the launch of its ...
The new SurePOUCH is a clean-fill machine series, with roll-fed vertical form, fill and seal machines that have a footprint of just 6 m square. Clean-fill applications include non-carbonated beverages and water, dairy products, ...
Tags: Pouch Fillers, Fillers, clean fill machine
Unilever has attained the UK sales and distribution rights to dairy-free ice cream brand Swedish Glace, a year after acquiring its Finnish owner. The company will take on the sales and distribution in January from local dairy group ...
Tags: Unilever, Faye Bradford, Swedish Glace, Fayrefield Foods
US-based Ossid, a division of integrated packaging products Pro Mach has unveiled a new weigh-price labeler, Ossid WPL1522. The labeler has been introduced for meat, poultry, dairy products, seafood, and produce packing operations that ...
Tags: weigh-price labeler, versatile machine, packing operations
FDT Consulting Engineers & Project Managers (FDT) and Koch Membrane Systems (KMS) have been presented with a Green Apple award at the Palace of Westminster, London, UK. FDT won the Gold Award and nominated Koch Membrane Systems as ...
Tags: Green Apple award, Membrane System, membrane filtration
Here's help in deciding how much rent you can afford for land. We've all heard the stories about land rents gone wild:$400/acre.$500.Even$550. Corn and soybean growers have been bidding those rents up,hoping to spread their fixed costs ...
Tags: land rents, machinery ownership, bidding war
Danone is to cut EUR200m (US$261m) in costs from its European operations in a bid to "win back its competitive edge" in the region after falling sales. The French food giant said it would "adapt" its management structure in Europe and ...
Tags: Danone, costs, European operations
A US 'activist' investor who has stamped his authority on Heinz, Cadbury and Kraft has taken a euro242M (€300M) stake in Danone, vowing to improve its profitability. Nelson Peltz, the head of Trian Partners, said the maker of ...
Alternapak and Nampak have concluded a cooperation agreement to develop the fast growing African market for long life liquid products in Cape Town, South Africa. In terms of the cooperation agreement, Alternapak, a supplier of aseptic ...
Tags: Alternapak, Nampak, cooperation agreement, liquid product
Netherland-based Royal FrieslandCampina has completed the acquisition of IDB Belgium. Although IDB Belgium will become a part of FrieslandCampina Cheese, Butter & Milkpowder, it will continue to operate independently. It has one ...
US-based Consolidated Container Company (CCC) has announced its proposal to buy all of the assets of Roffe Container, a plastic container manufacturer in Moorhead, Minnesota, US. CCC, which develops and manufactures rigid plastic ...
Tags: CCC, Roffe Container, US