US own-label group Ralcorp Holdings, which today (27 November) agreed to a takeover bid from ConAgra Foods, returned to profit in its fiscal 2012 year, boosted by acquisitions made during the year. In the 12 months to the end of ...
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Ralcorp Holdings has acquired Italian private-label frozen ready meals maker Gelit for an undisclosed sum. Gelit, based in Cisterna di Latina, employs around 130 staff and produces frozen ready meals for sale in the US and Italy. The ...
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If you asked for three words to sum up Britain in the 21st century, a pessimist might come up with 'lonely', 'busy' and 'aging'. Government figures indicate the number of single-person households is increasing by more than 160,000 a year, ...
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UK children's meal producer Little Dish has revamped its range to include new recipes and packaging. In stores from July, the revised range includes fish pie with pollock and new four-cheese sauce. The new colour-coded packaging ...
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Food giant Heinz has extended its UK sauces range with the introduction of a range of ketchups in a jar. Designed with adults in mind, Heinz said the range aims to drive new usage occasions by allowing consumers to "spoon a generous ...
Lactalis has added to its Seriously Strong product line in the UK with the launch of a cheese sauce. Seriously Strong Cheese Sauce will be the first sauce product for the Seriously Strong brand, Lactalis said today (20 August). For use as ...
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Chicken Tonight, a subbrand of Unilever's Knorr brand, is set to launch a new Turkey tomorrow sauce in the UK, just in time for the Christmas season. Chicken Tonight Turkey Tomorrow is a mild curry sauce made with tomatoes and spices. The ...
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Hellmann's, a US-based mayonnaise brand owned by Unilever United States, has launched its new limited edition flavor Southwestern Ranch Flavored Reduced Fat Mayonnaise. The new creamy flavor can be used as a dipping sauce for snacks ...
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Old South Foods, a leading bottler and co-packer of restaurant foods, has converted its 16-ounce barbecue sauce decanter from glass to hot fill polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles from Amcor Rigid Plastics, the world's leading producer ...
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Speech by the Chairman of the Autonomous Region Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (IMAR), situated in the northern border area of China, possesses unique regional advantage and consummate infrastructure. With abundant resources it enjoys ...
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UK-listed Chinese sauce firm China Food Co. has insisted it has a "robust platform" for growth despite reporting a loss for the first half of the year. A jump in selling and marketing costs pushed China Food Co. into the red in the six ...
Tags: Chinese sauce, robust platform, "premium"soya sauce brand Xaka
Speech by the Governor Sichuan, hometown of Deng Xiaoping, is famed for the' heavenly land'. In the upper reaches of Yangtze River, the province lies in the hinterland of Southwest China, covering an area of 485,000 sq km with a total ...
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It is 100 years since Titanic struck an iceberg and sank on her maiden voyage on April 15th 1912 with the loss of over 1500 lives. Henry Aldridge and Son latest auction like its predecessors this year broke a number of world record prices. ...
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US food group Campbell Soup Co. is to shut two domestic plants, citing falling canned soup sales among the reasons for the move. Campbell will close a spice factory in New Jersey by March and a soup and sauce plant in California by July. ...
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Amcor Rigid Plastics has supplied hot fill polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles to Old South Foods, a bottler and co-packer of restaurant foods to replace its 16oz barbecue sauce decanter from glass. According to Amcor, the ...