French retailer Auchan has become the latest major name in the sector to plant a flag in India. The privately-held company, which has stores in the Middle East, China and Russia, has struck a franchise deal with Dubai-based Landmark ...
Tags: BRICs, Auchan, retail sector
Epson has unveiled its new thermal receipt printer TM-L90 Liner-free, which prints adhesive-backed receipts and provides an automated method for labeling food and drink orders. The system enables restaurants, cafes and coffee shops to do ...
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HIG Capital has completed takeover of Arctic Glacier Fund, encompassing all its subsidiaries to create an ice packaging firm. Arctic Glacier produces, distributes and markets packaged ice, running 39 production plants and 49 distribution ...
North American packaging recycler, Sonoco Recycling, a unit of Sonoco has announced that Sonoco CorrFlex's Winston Salem, North Carolina facility has secured a silver-tier Sonoco Sustainability Star Award for diverting a minimum of 95% of ...
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Office products supplier JPM Deflect-o has signed on a new team member who is certain to prove popular with customers. Trainee seeing eye dog Dora will be spending the next nine months in the company of her primary carer at JPM, Wendy ...
Tags: office products supplier, JPM Deflect-o, seeing eye dog, stationery, puppy
United World Foods, a seafood company based in New Zealand, is recalling frozen oyster products due to the potential presence of norovirus. Norovirus, which is not typically life-threatening, can cause nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and ...
Tags: frozen oyster products, potential presence of norovirus
American food company Odwalla has launched four new food bars - Apple Toffee Pistachio, Chocolate Almond Coconut, Orange Cranberry and Lemon Ginger. The company noted that all food bars are good sources of five essential vitamins and ...
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Kraft Foods is set to launch its first new Cadbury countline brand Cadbury Crispello in the UK. The new product will feature three cream filled wafer shells covered in a layer of Cadbury milk chocolate. The product will be available at ...
Almost seven years since Tesco first announced its plan to enter the US, the UK retailer has today (5 December) said it is "likely" to quit the market. Tesco said it would take too long for its Fresh & Easy chain to reach the "scale and ...
Australia-based Spring Bay Seafoods is recalling four blue mussels products as they contain naturally-occurring marine biotoxin Paralytic Shellfish Toxin (PST), according to the Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ). These products ...
Tags: mussels products, recalled product, weakened immune systems
Raymond-Hadley of New York is recalling Wegmans Gluten Free Double Chocolate Brownie mixes as the products contain milk as ingredient that is not mentioned on the label, according to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The recall ...
Tags: milk as ingredient, chocolate chunks, life threatening reaction
Researchers at the University of Illinois, US, has a developed new method that uses bacteria to produce 2-fucosyllactose (2FL), a sugar found abundantly in human milk. This development could lead future research on the possibility of its ...
Tags: bacteria, human milk, future research, infant formula
Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival, is the longest and most important holiday for Chinese people. It is usually celebrated from the eighth day of the twelfth month to the fifteenth of the first month (lantern festival), by Chinese lunar ...
Tags: Spring Festival, painting, artworks, folk arts, handicraft
Solar Gard® a company of Saint-Gobain and global leader in the development, manufacturing and distribution of specialty films and backsheet materials, opened its new facility in Qingdao, China, today. Located in the Shandong province, ...
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The Food Standards Agency(FSA)has published the results of a survey which was carried out in the UK to evaluate the public opinion on food safety issues. The survey results showed that the main food safety issues that people were ...
Tags: FSA, food safety, additives