Orkla Foods Sweden, through its Anamma division, has developed a new vegan burger for international fast-food chain McDonald's which will be launched in Sweden and Finland later this month. The jointly developed burger from Anamma and ...
Orkla Food Ingredients has, through its 50% ownership in FD Holding Oy, been granted European patent for the FOODDUCK spread dispenser. Corresponding patent application has also been approved for grant in the US. Following successful test ...
Tags: Orkla Food Ingredients, FD Holding Oy, FOODDUCK spread dispenser
Norwegian conglomerate Orkla has signed an agreement to acquire 70% stake in Broer Bakkerijgrondstoffen to expand its presence in the Netherlands. Broer is a manufacturer of almond paste, bakery ingredients and ice cream powder. Orkla ...
Plastic packaging firm RPC Promens Innocan has introduced a new range of PET containers designed for the edible oil sector. The fully-recyclable containers feature wide labeling area to allow manufacturers to maximize brand image and ...
Tags: edible oil sector, tooling costs
Plastic packaging firm RPC has developed a new thermoformed twist cup for Orkla Foods Norway’s Denja range. RPC Superfos and RPC Promens have worked with Orkla to develop a thermoformed twist cup with an injection moulded screw ...
Indian food company MTR Foods is planning to invest Rs 2bn ($30m) in the next four to five years to increase its production capacity from 45,000 mt to 72,000 mt at its facility in Bengaluru, the capital city of the country’s southern ...
Tags: MTR Foods, Orkla Foods
Injection moulded packaging specialist RPC Superfos has developed a new injection moulded polypropylene pot for Orkla Foods Norway’s chocolate spread Nugatti. Available in new 350g pack along with the earlier version of 500g, the ...
LiquiGlide has inked a licensing pact with Norway-based branded consumer goods supplier Orkla, allowing the latter to use its slippery coating for mayonnaise products across Nordics, Germany, Benelux and the Baltics. LiquiGlide's ...
Tags: Food Packaging, Slippery Coating
Orkla has reported a 10% increase in operating profit , totalling NOK 725m in the first quarter of 2015. The Branded Consumer Goods business achieved EBIT (adj.) of NOK 769 million, an improvement of 11% from the first quarter of 2014. ...
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Orkla has agreed to divest its confectionery producer OJSC Orkla Brands Russia to Slavyanka-Lyuks JSC, a member of the Russian confectionery group Slavyanka. The agreement signed will require the company to sell 100% of its shares in ...
Tags: confectionery, Agriculture
Norwegian conglomerate Orkla plans to source sustainably produced palm oil for use as an ingredient in its consumer products. Palm oil is a widely used vegetable oil across the world with around 87% of it coming from Indonesia and ...
The Norwegian Competition authority has approved Orkla's purchase of 90.11% of the shares in food firm Rieber & Son. The acquisition is expected to be completed within a week. The approval of the Norwegian competition authorities ...
Tags: Norway Competition
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
Norwegian conglomerate Orkla has booked a decline in first-half profits from its FMCG division. The loss of contract production in the second half of 2011 had a negative impact on the unit's earnings in the six months to the end of June, ...
Tags: Orkla, consumer goods, first-half profits
Norwegian conglomerate Orkla, which is reshaping its business to focus on consumer goods, is to buy local food group Rieber & Søn. Orkla has struck a deal to buy the Rieber family's 90.1% stake in Rieber & Søn. The agreement ...
Tags: food group, food, pizza, chocolate