According to a recent report one third of all food produced in the world ends up as waste, costing consumers globally more than £259bn per year. In addition, around 200,000 tonnes of the 15 million tonnes of food thrown away in the UK ...
Tags: Packaging
Emerald Kalama Chemical, a business group of Emerald Performance Materials, has appointed Kaye Linkenhoger as sales manager, North America, for the group's growing line of K-FLEX low-VOC, non-phthalate plasticizers and coalescents. In this ...
Tags: Construction, adhesives, sealants, caulk
Global beverage major Coca-Cola has closed on deals to give new distribution territory to Great Lakes Coca-Cola Distribution and Coca-Cola Beverages Florida. Reyes Holdings's subsidiary Great Lakes Coca-Cola Distribution will bottle and ...
Boulder Canyon Foods, a brand owned by US-based Inventure Foods, has introduced new potato chips cooked in coconut oil to its existing range of kettle cooked potato chip range. The new Coconut Oil Kettle Cooked Potato Chips are made with ...
Tags: Food
Nomad Holdings has completed the previously announced acquisition of frozen food company Iglo Foods from Permira Advisers for €2.6bn. Said to be Europe's largest branded frozen food company, Iglo operates in 12 countries in Europe, ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, frozen food
Indian food safety regulators have filed a lawsuit against Nestle India for selling Maggi noodles in the country with unsafe levels of lead. The complaint was filed at a local court in the state of Uttar Pradesh after the local Food ...
Tags: Food, Food Safety, Nestle
Nestle USA will reformulate its frozen pizza and snacks range to cut down sodium content by 10% compared to the amount used in 2013. The move is part of the company's strategy to improve the nutritional and ingredient profile of its ...
Tags: Nestle, Frozen Food, Food, Pizza, Snacks
Organic health food product CO YO has won a Retailers’ Choice Award while celebrating new packaging at the Naturally Good Expo in Sydney. Picking up the award for Best Organic Food Product, founders Henry and Sandra Gosling have ...
Tags: Coconut Yoghurt, Labelling
Cosmo Films has a growing interest in the Australian market, and its range of specialty films with barrier properties shows it has much to offer. Barrier properties are increasingly important for packaged food products, and Cosmo Films ...
Kefir cultured probiotic dairy products supplier Lifeway Foods has expanded its product distribution to Mexico, under partnership with Baja Food Service and Intimidea. Through the partnership, Lifeway will distribute its probiotic ...
Tags: dairy products, Lifeway Foods
More than 85% of healthy fruit snacks contain huge amount of hidden sugars per 100g than sweets, according to Action on Sugar. As part of the new study, around 94 products such as fruit leathers, flakes, gums, chews, and coated dried ...
Tags: Fruit Snacks, vegetables
Armenia has imposed a ban on poultry product imports from 17 US states over bird flu outbreak, according to the former's Agriculture Ministry. The ban comes in the wake of avian influenza outbreak across several commercial poultry farms ...
Tags: Poultry Imports, poultry product
The Canadian government has approved gluten-free claims on specially produced oats and foods containing trace amounts of gluten. The approval comes after it was found that oats produced and processed to avoid cross-contamination by gluten ...
While government estimates released Wednesday show the overall U.S. economy contracted, they indicate the sporting goods industry continued to grow. Real gross domestic product - the value of the production of goods and services in the ...
BASF has opened a new Agricultural Research Station in Loni Kand, Pune, India. This new research and development (R&D) center will focus on global agricultural research on herbicides, fungicides, and insecticides, as well as on solutions ...