UK confectionery firm Glisten Confectionery has gained a stronger
foothold at the higher end of the confectionery market after food
ingredients business Kiril Mischeff sold its House of York toffee
brand to the Blackburn-based firm.
After a highly successful Fairtrade Fortnight earlier this year,
Britain's number two food retailer Asda is to increase the number
of ethical products on its shelves - further evidence of the
popularity, and profitability, of...
Ahold's management remains stoically bullish about the Dutch
retailer's chances of recovering from the double whammy of fraud
and poor performance, but the company's latest set of results show
that the journey is likely...
Tesco strengthened its position as the leading grocer in the UK in
the last quarter, with sales growth more than twice that of its
nearest rival Asda. Upmarket retailer Waitrose also showed
excellent growth, while Morrisons continued...
Two of the biggest chocolate makers in the UK are to launch
products which will directly compete with some of each other's
biggest brands - an indication, perhaps, that the rich vein of new
product innovation of the last few...
The competitive world of xanthan gum saw a new player enter the
already crowded market this week when US chemicals firm Huber
announced it would buy the world's number one xanthan gum supplier
CP Kelco. Huber steps into the leading...
UK bakery ingredients firm BakeMark continues to drive deeper into
'value-added' ingredients, designing a new premix for food makers
looking to target the growing low-carb food market.
Sparking an angry response from the egg industry, but opening up
opportunities for alternative ingredients, Japanese researchers
suggest an egg a day could significantly contribute to heart
disease in women.
Czech brewer Ostravar says it is planning to enter into the Polish
market in the coming months. The brewer says it wants to start
exporting Ostravar beer to Poland, where it will concentrate on the
Warsaw metropolitan region from...
Backed up by strong growth in the Czech and Slovakian markets, soft
drinks manufacturer Kofola has announced a 30 per cent increase in sales
turnover as it launches a series of new brands and extends its
reach into other markets in...
Polish meat processors have been reporting increased sales
following the country's accession to Europe, but despite the good
news not everyone in the industry believes that this will have long
term benefits. Indeed pig producers...
Unilever, currently the world's third largest food company, has
announced flat quarterly and half yearly results in Europe. But
despite the disappointment the results highlight a number of
sectors in central and eastern Europe...
Marketing and sales strategy pays off for UK-based firm Muntons
Malted Ingredients (MMI) with turnover increasing more than three
times in as many years.
Four former executives of Dutch retail group Ahold have been
indicted by the US authorities for fraudulent activities at the
group's US Foodservice division - the first charges brought against
employees in an investigation which...
The food included in children’s menus at a large number of UK
restaurants and cafés is systematically failing to meet the
nutritional guidelines set out for school canteens – which
themselves are hardly paragons of healthy eating...
Food makers need to write clearer food labels so that consumers can
easily understand the ingredients used in the food formulation,
finds a new report released in the UK this week.
Ending a long running lawsuit the US unit of UK starch and sugar
group Tate & Lyle will pay out £55 million (€89m) to settle an
anti-trust lawsuit on high fructose corn syrup, a popular sweetener
used by soft drinks giant Coca-Cola...
French retailer Casino saw a slight downturn in growth in the
second quarter of the year, impacted by fewer shopping days and the
cost of revamping its convenience business. But a solid performance
from the discount business in France...
Overproduction by New World wine producers has pushed down prices
over the last few years, taking a major toll on producers' margins.
But a growing trend towards premium wines could save the day, in
both established and emerging...
Flavour firms operating on the global scene will turn their sights
to Asia to up returns as evidence suggests new flavours are
emerging in China in the brand war between foreign and domestic
food makers.
Family-owned US firm JM Huber has become the number one pectin,
xanthan gum and CMC supplier after yesterday agreeing to buy
leading hydrocolloid firm CP Kelco from merchant bank Lehman
Brothers, reports Lindsey Partos.
Food makers working on the European stage today are matching
consumer concerns over genetically modified organisms, largely
selecting non-GMO ingredients for their food formulations,
highlights a new survey.
Leading Spanish food group Ebro Puleva, whose revenues broke the
billion euro barrier last week, has agreed to buy Riviana Foods,
the largest rice processor in the US.
Good news for players in the dairy industry as a new report claims
thevolume of dairy trade is growing at a faster pace than global
milk production. But Europe is outstripped by Australia and New
Zealand on the global stage.
US cranberry co-operative Ocean Spray will roll out a plumper
version of its health ingredient for use in bakery products onto
the European food market in the next few months, hoping to see
value-added ingredients boost a bottom line...
The popularity of food products formulated with ethnic ingredients
is far from waning in the UK, and Thai cuisine continues to hold
the number one slot in emerging cuisine with food makers such as
Jacob's rolling out finished...
Europe's retailers are among the most international in the world,
but one market where they are still under-represented is Latin
America. Yet as the region's economies begin to strengthen after
several difficult years, the...
With Europe now enforcing some of the strictest rules in the world
on the traceability of genetically modified ingredients, companies
that can offer a tracked identity preservation system are likely to
gain from demand by food makers...
Slim-Fast, the weight loss brand owned by Unilever, has been one of
the hardest hit by the low-card dieting fad which has swept the US
and now Europe. But the company will hope that a new formulation
for the brand will restore some...
Britain's TV advertising watchdog Ofcom has given a boost to
beleaguered food companies by stating that there is no need for
tighter regulations on the way in which they advertise food
products to children. But childhood obesity...
Dutch supplier of palm oil-sourced food products Loders Croklaan
has consolidated its position in the growing palm ingredients
market, agreeing this week to buy Malaysian palm oil specialities
company Soctek.
There could be growing opportunities for makers of chocolate milk
in health positionings, in particular in the Nordic countries.
Danes, for example, are consuming more of this product than ever
before, and new product introductions...
Frozen food may not have the sexiest of images, but growing
consumer demand for convenient, healthy and, above all, safe food
has led to something of a revival in the fortunes of frozen
products across Europe. But this could also...
Openings for low-fat, weight-conscious foods are growing with new
findings suggesting US consumers believe they are to blame for
being obese. While confusion exists over artery-clogging trans
fatty acid, soy foods come out on top...
The Australian food watchdog has issued a warning over a low-cal
sweetener that could harm consumers who are intolerant to the fruit
sugar fructose, advising these people to avoid the novel food
ingredient tagatose, produced by Arla...
Germans have a reputation as Europe's beer-drinking heavyweights,
but an increasing lack of interest in beer among young consumers
there means that German brewers may have to look to other western
European nations such as Italy...
Spanish ready meal sales grew by 7.5 per cent in 2003, another
clear example of how Spaniards are rapidly embracing modern
culinary trends and shedding the tapas image. And with the
category still relatively underdeveloped compared...
German discount store Lidl is hoping to steal a march on arch rival
Aldi by rolling out stores in 15 European countries where the
latter has no presence - a move which should also turn it into
Europe's biggest discount store...
For the past 13 years, Proliant Dairy Ingredients and Hilmar Cheese
have worked together to develop whey protein and lactose products.
Hilmar now hopes to increase its presence in the functional foods
field by purchasing Proliant...
With impending sugar reform set to slash the bottom line for the
owner of British Sugar, UK food and ingredient group Associated
British Foods, the company is driving further into the ingredients
business with the decision to buy...
The price war in the Dutch retail market continues to impact retail
businesses there, none more so than Laurus which is also trying to
revamp its business at the same time.
Just as sales of Polish meat and dairy products have boomed
following the country's accession to Europe, fruit producers are
also reporting booming sales of apples, cherries, raspberries and
strawberries to the rest of the European.
Baltika has reported that its sales for the quarter April to June
have improved by a healthy 61 per cent, to 5.5 million hecolitres.
This led to a jump in revenue to RUR 7.5 billion (€210m) for the
same period, although the company...
The Alfa Group says that its holding company Alfa-Eco has increased
its stake in the Sun Interbrew company by increasing the number of
shares it holds in the company to 15 per cent - a move that could
set the Moscow-based investment...
A number of the leading players from the bakery sectors in the
Baltic States have announced strong first half results in the past
week. The results for Latvia's Hanzas Maisnica, together with
Lithuanian players Vilniaus Duona...
Russian food retailing is continuing its dynamic performance of the
last five years, but alongside the development of the Moscow and
St. Petersburg markets, other provincial capitals are now proving
to be targets, according to a recent...
Food safety scares in China have opened up opportunities for food
makers looking to pierce this growing market with imported brands.
Raw materials and food ingredients products with the most potential
include tree nuts, dried fruits,...
Stricken Italian dairy giant Parmalat, which has operations in
Romania, Hungary and Russia, has come up with a plan that will see
the many creditors offered stock.
