Nestlé has agreed to purchase US-based Sweet Earth to enter plant-based protein market. Sweet Earth produces products ranging in plant-based proteins like wheat-based seitan, tofu as wells as legumes such as lentils, chickpeas and ...
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Nestlé USA has forayed into the direct-to-consumer (DTC) prepared meals business by acquiring a minority stake in Freshly. The Nestle subsidiary was the leading investor in a $77m funding round in the DTC healthy prepared meals ...
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Bonduelle has agreed to acquire Ready Pac Foods, the US producer of convenience fresh meal solutions, salads and fresh cut produce. The transaction is expected to close by the end of March 2017 following routine regulatory reviews and ...
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Honey Creative has developed new packaging for the entire retail and in-meeting product range of Weight Watchers International. Weight Watchers, which provides a range of food products, will roll out more than 170 product skus across 30 ...
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Swiss food group Orior has announced that it will acquire the Culinor Food Group to strengthen its presence in the European market. Operating out of Benelux, Culinor is a major producer of ready-made meals and meal components serving ...
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UK’s fresh prepared foods manufacturer Bakkavor Group has agreed to sell its Belgian fresh prepared food business, Vaco, to Culinor Food Group for undisclosed sum. The sale is part of Bakkavor's restructuring strategy to focus on ...
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Toray Advanced Film, a sister company of Toray Plastics (America), has developed a new high-barrier, transparent, aluminum oxide-coated polyester film for retort pouches. The Barrialox SBR2 film has been designed to offer enhanced thermal ...
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It is a known fact that food is a basic necessity of mankind, a source of survival. From ancient times, man has been involved in finding various elements that serves as an eatable that also fulfils the criteria of being edible and safe to ...
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Arkansas-based Tyson Foods is planning to close two of its prepared foods manufacturing plants as part of its efforts to enhance overall performance and streamline operations. The company's plants that will discontinue operations are ...
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The U.S. prepared meals market, one of the largest in the world and a leader in per capita consumption, is maintaining strong growth, resulting in increased opportunities for packaging solutions that satisfy consumer demands in terms of ...
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French food ingredients firm Solina Group has agreed to acquire the Industrial Flavouring Division of Paulig, which provides taste products for Nordic meat industry. This new development is expected to help Solina to increase its ...
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A recent study across the US revealed that highly processed foods were at the top of the American consumers shopping list, which consisted of more sugar, salt and fat than foods that were less processed—equalling 60% in calories of ...
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The popularity of sushi is on the rise in Australia, while spring rolls appear to be gradually falling out of favour, according to findings from market research organisation Roy Morgan Research. Between July 2009 and June 2014, the ...
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Capsicums are increasingly being used in some of the world’s most innovative food products launched in Australia, according to recent market research commissioned by the Australian vegetable industry. Following a recent domestic ...
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Packaging firm Delta Packaging plans to open a new 10,000m2 production facility in Katowice, Poland. Katowice facility will house rotary flexographic and sheet-fed lithographic printing technologies, in-line functional barrier coating ...
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