Post Holdings has agreed to acquire Ohio-based sausage maker Bob Evans Farms for nearly $1.5bn to strengthen its position in refrigerated retail and food-service channels. The acquisition, which will see the American packaged foods ...
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South African food company Pioneer Foods has announced that it would buy a 49.89% stake in major FMCG manufacturer Weetabix East Africa for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition is expected to establish a strategic beachhead for Pioneer ...
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The nation's biggest breakfast cereal brand Weetabix is kicking off the New Year with a flying start, after taking first place in the cereal category at this year's Product of the Year awards; for new product Weetabix Protein Crunch. ...
The Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has established Great British Food Unit intended to boost exports and create 5,000 jobs in food and drinks manufacturing sectors. The partnership between the sector ...
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China-based Bright Foods’ listed subsidiary is acquiring 50% stake in New Zealand-based meat cooperative Silver Fern Farms for NZ$311m ($197m) as it seeks to import more of agricultural products from New Zealand. Silver Fern ...
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Weetabix has launched a new range of single serving Weetabix products in packaging of Clondalkin Flexible Packaging Bury. The three new products - Weetabix Crispy Minis Chocolate Chip, Weetabix Crispy Minis Banana and Weetos pots and were ...
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Many Northamptonshire businesses have formally pledged to create good quality training opportunities for young generation locally to meets the sector's needs. Companies making the pledge include TMI Foods, Warner Edwards, Phipps ...
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Kliklok has worked closely with the Weetabix Food Company over recent years, and has successfully installed a number of automatic cartoning lines at their Kettering site in Northamptonshire, to pack Alpen cereal bars and Weetabix biscuits. ...
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China-based Bright Food is seeking to list Weetabix Food, which it bought two years ago, in Hong Kong or London. The Wall Street quoted Bright Food vice president Ge Junjie as saying that it plans to list Manassen Foods Australia too ...
Packaging News entered the debate via local radio as national newspapers seized on a report in the Grocer, claiming that 74% of respondents had been “forced” to take a knife to open packaging with 63% claiming they’d ...
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January 15, 2014 Sophie Langley Mundella Foods has been acquired by China-based Bright Food Group China’ Bright Food Group Co Ltd (Bright Food) has agreed to buy Western Australian dairy company Mundella Foods, expanding the ...
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GlaxoSmithKline’s sale of Lucozade and Ribena for £1.35bn earlier this month was the latest in a long line of iconic British brand sales topped by Cadbury. GlaxoSmithKline's sale of its drinks brands was the latest in a long ...
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2 Sisters Food Group, and PepsiCo are among the trade buyers that could snap up Burton's Biscuits, although the deal could easily go to a private equity house, according to analysts. Burton's makes Cadbury-branded biscuits under licence ...
Chinese state-owned Bright Food is looking at options to acquire Israel’s major food manufacturer and distributor Tnuva, as part of its efforts to further expand its presence overseas. Tnuva owns seven of the top ten leading food ...
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Alpen, a porridge brand owned by UK-based cereal manufacturer Weetabix, has unveiled new varieties, Maple and Pecan porridge pot and Golden Syrup, Almond and Hazelnut sachet, to complement its existing range of convenient porridge pots and ...
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