Premier Foods faces six key challenges – including: managing consumer demand uncertainties, reducing its borrowing and grappling with its pension deficit – according to City analyst Investec. Commodity concern: Premier ...
Packaging manufacturer North State Flexibles plans to expand its operations in Greensboro, North Carolina, US with an investment of over $6m over the next three years. The expansion is expected to create 41 new jobs in the region. The ...
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Google is open-sourcing a new general purpose data compression library called Zopfli that can be used to speed up Web downloads. The Zopfli Compression Algorithm, which got its name from a Swiss bread recipe, is an implementation of the ...
UK-based bakery products manufacturer Finsbury Food has sold its free-from bakery business to Scottish firm Genius Foods for pound 21m, as part of its efforts to focus on core cake and bread businesses. The sale includes two subsidiaries ...
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Finsbury Food Group has sold its free-from business to Genius Foods for Pound 21M to focus on its core bread and cake business and reduce debt. Genius Foods has a 50% share of the UK gluten-free bread market The free-from business ...
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Packaging manufacturer North State Flexibles has announced plans to expand its operations in Greensboro, North Carolina, US with an investment of over $6m over the next three years. The City of Greensboro, Guilford County, and the State ...
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Associated British Foods has forecast flat revenue from its grocery division in the first half of its fiscal year amid challenging conditions in bread markets in the UK and Australia. ABF, which owns the Kingsmill bread brand in the UK ...
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US-based Vie De France Yamazaki plans to shut down its frozen bread manufacturing facility in Bensenville, Illinois, as part of its efforts to consolidate production and control costs. The company stated that closure of the plant on 27 ...
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US-based King Arthur Flour is voluntary recalling certain bags of flour as they may contain small blue polyurethane balls that are used in the sifting process, according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The products subject ...
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Asda, the UK's second-largest retailer, saw its underlying sales slow in the last three months of its financial year. The company today (21 February) reported its like-for-like sales, excluding fuel, increased by 0.1% in the 14 weeks to 5 ...
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Swiss food company Aryzta has entered into an agreement to acquire Klemme, a leading bakery in Germany, for EUR280m, as part of a strategy to strengthen its presence in the region. Klemme, established in 1991, operates seven bakeries with ...
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The basic mechanics of the pop-up toaster haven't changed much since its invention nearly a century ago. Most models feature the same vertical slots with heating elements on either side that slowly toast the bread. In the absence of any ...
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Last year was packed with surprises for the food and drink manufacturing sector, according to business guru Paul Wilkinson. Paul Wilkinson reviewed a year of food and drink manufacturing surprises Here we capture the highlights of his ...
Despite the precision mechanics and computerization of modern agriculture, dogs are a part of farming and as it turns out, probably always have been. In an industry increasingly reliant on complex technology, dogs still herd sheep; watch ...
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Quiznos, the US-based quick service restaurant chain, is relaunching lobster just in time for the lent season for a limited period of time. The new offerings include Lobster and Seafood Salad Sub and Lobster and Seafood Fresh Salad. ...
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