Kiefel, the German manufacturer of thermoforming machines and a unit of Brückner Group, has announced to acquire 100% stake in Mould & Matic Solutions, an Austrian supplier of tools and of automation solutions to the packaging ...
Tags: Kiefel, Mould&Matic, Haidlmair Group
Finnish food company Atria is entering Swedish poultry business by acquiring Lagerberg i Norjeby (Lagerbergs). The financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed. Through this deal, the company is purchasing the entire share ...
Tags: Atria, Swedish Poultry, Aquisition
Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev) has agreed to sell SABMiller’s Chinese beer business to China Resources Beer Holdings for $1.6bn, in an effort to gain regulatory approval for its pending acquisition of SABMiller. The Chinese ...
Tags: AB In Bev, SABMiller, China Resources, Chinese Beer
The European Commission has approved Switzerland-based meat processor Bell Food Group‘s acquisition of Austrian poultry producer Huber Group. The financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed. The acquisition was announced on 16 ...
Tags: European Commission, Bell Food Group, Huber Group, Acquisition
The US Senate Agricultural Committee has passed a bill which paves the way for a single national labeling law for food made with genetically engineered ingredients, while doing away with state by state labeling. With this bill, which ...
US-based meat processing company Central Maine Meats is using a flash freeze technology which is claimed to preserve agricultural products for longer time. The flash freeze technology, which is currently being used at the company's ...
Tags: Central Maine Meats, Flash Freeze Technology, Food Preservation
LPS Industries, a leading producer of flexible packaging solutions, recently announced that its Vapor Flex Division is playing a key role as the manufacturer for a distributor that was recently awarded a two-year General Services ...
European bottler of soft drinks and fruit juices, Refresco Gerber has signed an agreement to acquire the bottling facility in Hamburg, Germany from food and beverage company PepsiCo in a bid to strengthen its co-bottling activities. The ...
Tags: Refresco Gerber, soft drinks, fruit juices
The Australian Federal Government's Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB) is allowing China's Moon Lake Investments to acquire Australia's largest dairy producer, Van Diemen's Land Company (VDL). The purchase price is AUD$280 million for ...
The Australian treasury has given its approval to the sale of the country's largest dairy farm Tasmanian Land Company (TLC) including Van Diemen's Land Company (VDL), to Chinese billionaire Lu Xianfeng's Australian arm Moon Lake Investments ...
Tags: VDL, Dairy Farm
Mondi Group has agreed to acquire the Simet corrugated plant located in Grabonóg, near Poznań in Poland. The plant is designed to produce a wide range of flexo printed packaging including American cases, die-cut and multipoint ...
Australian agrifood company TasFoods is planning to acquire North West Tasmanian chicken producer Nichols Poultry for A$12.55m ($8.98m). Under the acquisition terms, TasFoods would purchase Nichols' poultry processing facility, 91 ...
A group of consumers is pledging never to buy Lilydale free-range chickens again after finding out the chickens are fed genetically modified (GM) feed. The issue arose by complaints on social media followed by a response by Lilydale on ...
Tags: Free-range chickens, non-GM food
Canada-based organic food company SunOpta has entered into an agreement to sell Opta Minerals business to Speyside Equity Fund for CAD$6.2m ($4.4m), in order to focus on its core business of food distribution. The acquisition proposal has ...
Tags: SunOpta, organic food
FormFactor Inc of Livermore, CA, USA (which provides wafer test technologies and expertise) has agreed to acquire Cascade Microtech Inc of Beaverton, OR, USA (which provides equipment enabling precision contact, electrical measurement and ...
Tags: LED devices, wafer