When corn is cheap, hogs get plentiful. The annual Pork Powerhouses ranking of the 25 largest producers in the U.S. shows a gain of 128,000 sows in the past year. With two new packing plants set to open in 2017, producers are gearing up to ...
Tags: corn, Pork, Smithfield Foods
Youngevity International, a global direct marketer of nutritional and lifestyle products and also a vertically-integrated producer of gourmet coffees for the commercial, retail and direct sales channels, has secured approval from the ...
Tags: Youngevity, Core Product
RPC Promens Industrial Rushden's recently-launched 5 litre co-extruded jerrycan has been selected for a range of specialist cleaning and maintenance chemicals from leading manufacturer Selden Research. The blow moulded HDPE container ...
Brazilian meat producer JBS has completed the acquisition of European poultry company Moy Park for $1.5bn from Marfrig Global foods, following an approval from the European Union. The deal, which was announced in June, required certain ...
British alcoholic beverages company Diageo is including nutritional information on the packaging of its whisky brand Crown Royal to provide readily available facts to consumers. Crown Royal is the first alcohol beverage brand to ...
China has adopted International Monetary Fund rules aimed at helping to improve the transparency, reliability and international comparability of the country's statistics. The move, announced on Thursday, is being viewed by Beijing-based ...
Tags: IMF, Economic Statistics
The Taiwan government has passed draft amendments to the Civil Aviation Act to regulate drones, pending parliamentary approval. Local governments will be responsible for regulating drones up to 15kg and those above the weight level will be ...
Tags: Commercial-use Drones, Drone
Google has hired former Hyundai boss John Krafcik to spearhead its self-driving car project. He has been working as the president of online car shopping service TrueCar since April 2014 and earlier held management position in Ford. ...
Tags: Google, self-driving car, Apple
Quiksilver, Inc. announced that the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware has approved a variety of First Day Motions related to its voluntary Chapter 11 restructuring. Collectively, the orders granted by the ...
Tags: Quiksilver, Roxy, DC
Originally a battery maker, Indian manufacturer Eveready is transiting into the LED lighting market recently with the aim of acquiring at least 10% market shares, according to a Business Standard report. According to the company Directing ...
Tags: LED Lighting Market, LED industry
Shoppers in the UK believe that cardboard packaging provides better protection than polystyrene and is convenient to recycle. This has been revealed in a research commissioned by Confederation of Paper Industries (CPI). A survey was ...
Tags: cardboard packaging, polystyrene
Bunge Brasil, a subsidiary of global agribusiness and food company Bunge, has reportedly agreed to acquire Moinho Pacifico, a wheat processor in Brazil. With this acquisition, Bunge would increase its share in wheat flour and other ...
Tags: Wheat Processor, soybean, corn
Foods and beverage ingredients firm BioNeutra Global has increased its manufacturing capacity with the acquisition of a production plant in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The transaction is valued at around $7.85m. The company will develop ...
Tags: EFSA approval, FDA
Global nutraceuticals market is expected to cross $262.9 billion by 2020 from the current level of $182.6 billion growing at compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of about 8 per cent according to the joint study brought out by The Associated ...
Chile is planning to implement strict rules for tobacco, including plain packaging that depict the gory consequences of consuming such products. The government is proposing a bill that mandates tobacco firms to bring in changes in ...
Tags: Plain Packaging, Cigarettes