As more global fast food chains rush to China for expansion, they also have to face the costly headaches in a fast-changing food supply environment plagued by repeated safety scandals. Fast-food giant McDonald's Corp recently announced ...
Tags: fast food, Food Production Monitor
A report from the nonprofit organisation, As You Sow and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), reveals that while there is a rise in the use of plastic packaging across the US market to meet the needs of fast food and consumer ...
Tags: plastic PET bottles, Agriculture
Del Taco, a leader in the Mexican quick service restaurant category, announced that it will enter into the Northeast region with the signing of two development agreements in New Jersey, slated to begin opening in 2016. Currently with 550 ...
Tags: restaurant industry, Agriculture
Eva Verhaak joins from The Marketing Store Worldwide. Underground Toys has hired a new marketing and PR manager in the form of Eva Verhaak. Verhaak (pictured) joins Underground from The Marketing Store Worldwide, where she was an ...
The operator of McDonald's in Japan and Cargill Inc has not identified any connection between a Cargill-owned plant in Thailand and a strip of plastic traced in a chicken nugget this month that triggered uproar over product safety at the ...
Tags: chicken nugget, plastic
Supermarket dumping of cage eggs could result in egg shortages Egg producers have continued to express concerns about the impact on Australia’s egg industry of moves by supermarket giants Coles and Woolworths, and fast food chain ...
Tags: Cage Eggs, Supermarket, Agriculture
Food processing giant OSI Group has termed accusations made by Shanghai Municipal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as ‘misleading’, stating that its use does not meet the ‘questionable products’ definition ...
Tags: past-due meat products, Drug Administration, Agriculture
American fast food restaurant chain Subway has announced an investigation over a media report in China alleging that workers at a Beijing franchise manipulated food labels. The report said that workers in Beijing Subway outlet doctored ...
Tags: Subway, vegetable products
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)® today announced that top executives from Condé Nast, Fox Networks Group, Google, McDonald’s, and The Walt Disney Co. will join the Brand Matters keynote at the 2015 International ...
According to the news from BBC on December 8, McDonald's global sales figure fell 2.2 percent in November and US sales continues to weaken for six months. Sales at U.S. stores open at least 13 months fell 4.6% in November, the company, ...
Tags: McDonald's, global sales
These days, "the Christmas retail rush" is a Christmas wish more than a certainty for retailers. You've probably already noticed that it's tough out there. Sure, consumers are more receptive to the idea of spending in December. But where? ...
Tags: Christmas retail, soft drink, Packaging
McDonald's USA has introduced fresh, whole fruit side option in kids' meals -- Cuties California Clementines. The kid-sized Sun Pacific Cuties will be part of McDonald's line-up of happy meal and mighty kids meal side choices from ...
Tags: Mcdonald, Fruit, Agriculture
Finland-based packaging company Huhtamaki will be selling its films business to German private equity company Deutsche Beteiligungs for $175m (€141m). Huhtamaki is known for supplying paper cups to McDonald's. The company stated ...
Tags: food packaging, Films Segment, Agriculture
McDonald’s global sees drop in sales McDonald’s Corporation has announced that global comparable sales decreased 0.5 per cent in October 2014, which it said reflected the impact of “business challenges” such as ...
Tags: McDonald, Agriculture
Adding to the ever-growing dubious activities of China’s food industry, 110.23 tonne of toxic tofu was dumped into the local market by a gang from Shandong, in eastern China. As reported in the Shanghai Daily, rongalite, a banned ...