British snacking company KP Snacks agreed to buy Butterkist, the popcorn business of Tangerine Confectionery for an undisclosed price. The acquisition will also include the manufacturing facility of Butterkist located in Pontefract, West ...
The institute is offering technical advice on packaging design and materials, testing facilities and food analysis in particular migration. Areas covered include competence in food and packaging and its interaction, testing facilities to ...
KP Snacks and Intersnack UK are set to establish a new £16m nut processing and packing facility in Rotherham, Yorkshire. The new facility is expected to produce all of the nuts volume required by the combined entity in the future. ...
Tags: Nut Processing, Snacks
Trigon Snacks, the maker of pub favourite peanut brands such as Big D and Planters, has entered administration as a result of cash flow problems, putting more than 130 jobs at risk. Trigon Snacks makes a range of branded and own-label ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Snacks
German snack firm Intersnack is set to merge its UK business with United Biscuits' (UB) snacks division, KP Snacks, in 2014. In December 2012, Intersnack acquired KP Snacks from United Biscuits for approximately $600m as part of its ...
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A German design student Sabine Zits has joined forces with Innovia Films to create new crisp packs, in a bid to promote renewable packaging materials. Innovia Films helped Sabine Zits, an undergraduate at the FH Aachen University of ...
The 2012 trend for major cross border merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the UK food and drink industry is set to continue in 2013. That’s the view of expert Andrew McLean, a partner at law firm Stephenson Harwood, in this ...
Tags: M&A, UK, food and drink industry
There were, despite continued economic uncertainty in many Western markets and concerns over slowing growth in the East, signs that M&A activity rebounded in the food sector this year. Data for the whole of 2012 has not yet been published ...
Tags: European M&A advisors, food sector, Food
Intersnack has reached a deal to acquire the snack unit of United Biscuits for an undisclosed sum. The privately-held German snack group will take control of KP Snacks, the UK's second-largest snack business with an annual turnover of ...
Tags: undisclosed sum, snack group, KP Snacks
The week's two major stories broke within hours of each other on Wednesday - Tesco admitted it was "likely" to leave the US and Germany's Intersnack snapped up United Biscuits' salty snacks business. Elsewhere, ex-Tesco CEO Terry Leahy led ...
Tags: salty snacks, Intersnack, Hula Hoops, McCoy's, Skips, dairy, pork sector
German snack firm Intersnack has agreed to acquire UK-based United Biscuits' (UB) snacks division, KP Snacks, from its private equity owners Blackstone and PAI Partners. This move is a part of the Intersnack's strategy to strengthen its ...
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German snack company Intersnack is finalizing an agreement to acquire UK-based United Biscuits' snacks business, KP Snacks, for more than £400m. Intersnack and KP Snacks are likely to announce the agreement this week, reported ...
Tags: snack, acquire, Intersnack, KP Snacks, food, potato chips
KP snacks–the maker of Hula Hoops,KP Nuts and McCoy's–has been bought from United Biscuits by German firm Intersnack for an undisclosed sum. KP Snacks has been bought by Intersnack for an undisclosed sum Analysts had long ...
Tags: KP snacks, Intersnack, Hula Hoops, KP Nuts, McCoy
Ireland-based high speed packaging machinery specialists Tekpak Automation has provided snack food manufacturer Largo Foods( part of the Intersnack Group), with a robotic pick and place solution for loading bagged snack products into shelf ...
Tags: Automation's Packaging Solution, bagged snack products, Largo Foods