Belgium - L-Acoustics has announced that Brussels-based sales and distribution team, XLR, has joined the new L-Acoustics Certified Provider network for Belgium as a distributor. Jan de Brucker and Louis Lukusa head the team dealing with ...
Cargill is to quit the vegetable oil business in Romania in a bid to develop its agricultural operations in the country. The US agribusiness giant has agreed to sell assets that include the Untdelemn de la Bunica and Olpo to Expur, part ...
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French food retailer and manufacturer Les Mousquetaires saw its sales increase by more than 5% in 2012, with supermarket chain Intermarché gaining market share and higher revenues at its production arm. The company today (12 ...
French retailer E. Leclerc today (12 February) claimed its share of the domestic market grew faster than its rivals in 2012. Leclerc said it had 18.6% of the French grocery market last year, up a full percentage point on 2011. The ...
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Romania this afternoon (11 February) insisted the two slaughterhouses in the country under scrutiny over horse meat contamination have not broken EU food rules. Victor Ponta, the Romanian Prime Minister, said the slaughterhouses under ...
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Tesco has admitted an own-label spaghetti bolognese in the UK contained horse DNA. The UK's largest retailer announced this evening the product, sold under its cut-price Everyday Value own label, contained over 60% horse DNA in some ...
An abbatoir in Romania is alleged to be the source of the horse meat contained in Findus products that have sparked the crisis that has rocked Europe's food industry. Initial investigations by the French government have linked the ...
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German retailer Tengelmann has confirmed its Kaiser's supermarket chain has pulled frozen lasagnes from shelves amid concerns the lines could contain horse meat. A spokesperson for the group told just-food today (11 February) that it had ...
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The UK's Food Standards Agency has insisted the traceability systems in place to track ingredients down the supply chain are proving robust as it works to uncover how undeclared horse meat made its way onto frozen beef products. "We are ...
Bete Ltd are delighted to announce the appointment of Bruno Guerin as business development manager for their French and Spanish territories. Bruno has a background in engineering along with extensive experience of technical sales in a ...
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Political activists from the Middle East were targeted in attacks that exploited a previously unknown Flash Player vulnerability to install a so-called lawful interception program designed for law enforcement use, security researchers from ...
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One in five Chinese LED lighting companies may fail this year as falling prices and oversupply batter an industry that Beijing bankrolled to try to build an energy-efficient future. About 4,000 companies in China are producing LEDs, or ...
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Six of France's largest retail chains have pulled products from their shelves amid concerns the lines could contain horse meat. Retailers including Carrefour and Casino have recalled SKUs supplied by Findus and by French supplier Comigel, ...
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A mathematician at the University of Central Missouri has discovered what is now the largest known prime number -- one with more than 17 million digits. Dr. Curtis Cooper, who has made two other prime number discoveries, has found the ...
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UK police have raided two meat firms as part of an investigation into how beef products containing horse meat have been sold. The UK Food Standards Agency issued a statement yesterday evening (12 February) to say its officials and police ...
Tags: meat firms, horse meat, Food