In the run up to the Food ingredients Europe exhibition in
Frankfurt this November we shall report on a variety of ingredients
companies as they prepare for the event. Today it is the turn of
Belgian company Orafti.
Two years ago to the day terrorist attacks in the United States
struck a nation, leaving the country shocked, angry and vulnerable.
As the country continues to recover, national security remains very
much a top priority, in particular...
"We have fundamentally reformed our farm policy," and with
these words Dr. Franz Fischler, European Commissioner for
Agriculture kicked-off his first speech at the WTO ministerial
conference in Cancun, Mexico that opened...
Danish ingredients company Danisco Sugar said this week that it
expects an overall production considerably above the quotas
specified by the EU and on a par with production in recent record
years.
Cantrell & Cochrane, the Irish drinks group, has launched a new
isotonic sports drink, Club Energise, backed with a €1m marketing
budget. Six per cent of revenues from the brand will be used to
support Irish sportsmen and women,...
A five year investment programme for rice derivative producer Remy
Industries, part of the Orafti group, has paid off with the company
obtaining an 'extended HACCP' certificate from Lloyd's.
Pioneering Belgian ingredients supplier Orafti Active Food
Ingredients is the first, and only, producer of inulin and
oligofructose to get the GMP stamp of approval from the American
Institute of Baking.
As the industry turns to new income sources, dairy companies are
fast turning whey into value-added food ingredients for the food,
dietary supplements and nutraceutical industry, claims a new
report.
Regulations governing the labelling and marketing of food products
do not go far enough, claimed one anti-obesity group last week. But
pushing through tougher rules will be a hard task, according to
Datamonitor, with the food industry...
Innovative ingredients supplier Nutrinova will exhibit its DHActive
in numerous forms at this year's FiE show in Frankfurt, including
the new soft gels, a functional drink and a nutrition bar.
On the eve of the 5th WTO Ministerial Conference in Cancún, the
Confederation of the food and drink industries of the EU, the voice
of the €600 billion European food and drink industry, urges WTO
members to come to a balanced framework...
Paprika, used as a food colourant and flavour enhancer throughout
the world, has attracted the focus of regional economic
initiatives, governments and agribusiness from South Africa to
Zambia. In Zambia, family agribusiness Bimzi...
The Ghana Cocoa Board (GCB) has secured a US$650 million loan to
purchase cocoa for the 2003/2004 cocoa season. The facility, the
highest in the history of the Board and repayable within a year,
was arranged by four leading banks...
DMV International, a division of dairy giant Campina, has entered
into an agreement with AgriMark, USA, for the production of its
bioactive protein lactoferrin.
Long term sustainable growth is the key aim for a far-reaching
development process at Swedish fats and oils company Karlshamns,
the company confirmed recently when it announced its first half
results for 2002. An increasingly competitive...
An industry tie-up to find cheaper production methods for flavours
is already bearing fruit as Swiss flavours giant Givaudan announces
'key milestone' in research on gene pathways.
"We want to make the Doha Development Agenda a success." For
Agriculture European Commissioner Franz Fischler this is Europe's
number one objective for the upcoming WTO trade talks in Mexico
next week. And to achieve...
Women are worth €1,400 billion, a figure set to swell to €2,000
billion by 2008. Long acknowledged as a powerful consumer force, a
new study from Datamonitor suggests that the modern perception of
women provides new growth opportunities...
The sale of US Foodservice - suggested as a possible means of
recovering some of its lost reputation - has been dismissed by
Ahold's new chief executive Anders Moberg. But what exactly he
plans to do to redress the comapny is...
A report carried out at the request of the Commission's Enterprise
DG has concluded that innovation capabilities in the candidate
countries still lag behind those within the 15 current Member
States, report CORDIS.
Albert Heijn, the flagship Dutch supermarket chain of the embattled
Ahold group, is to axe around 440 jobs in a bid to cut costs and
keep pace with its main competitors.
Casino, the French retail group, is hoping to benefit from an
improvement in exchange rates in the second half after a first half
of steady growth driven by its domestic discount store operations.
The International Pepper Community (IPC) - gathered in India this
week - has agreed to tackle falling pepper sales, aiming to get
quality standards accepted by importing and exporting countries all
around the world. IPC hopes on NPD...
Somerfield is still to find a solution to the question of how to
turn around the performance of the discount store chain acquired in
1998. The latest quarterly figures show that while Somerfield
improved, Kwik Save sales actually...
Irish ingredients, flavours and end products company Kerry shrugged
off currency fluctuations and sluggish industry growth rates for
the first six months of 2003. Health and exposure to ready meals
offer particularly good growth opportunities.
McVities is relaunching its low-fat range of biscuits and cakes
sold under the Go Ahead! brand, with a new pack design and a number
of new products. But is the decision to market the range as
offering both health benefits and all...
Ending months of speculation Dutch life science products company
DSM announced today that is to pay CHF 3.5 billion (€2.4 billion)
for Roche's vitamins and fine chemicals division.
When Roche launched the sale of the division...
Despite its troubles in the US market, where a number of stores
have closed as a result of heavy losses, Belgium's Delhaize group
is continuing to expand there. It has acquired the Georgia-based
Harveys group, which is a good...
Ambitious Israeli soy ingredients company Solbar Industries keeps
the new products rolling out with the launch this week of Solpro
900, a soy protein isolate for infant formula, nutritional foods
and beverages, as its investment programme...
Still red wine sales are set to grow at a rate faster than that of
the global wine market as a whole over the next five years, driven
by increasing awareness of health issues and a more knowledgeable
wine drinking public, according...
Marks & Spencer is the latest UK retailer to introduce a
loyalty scheme, combining it with the laucnh of a new credit card.
But with points awarded only every time the card is used - and not
every time customers shop at the store...
France's hypermarket groups, among the biggest spenders on
advertising in the country, are to be allowed to advertise on TV
for the first time - but not until 2007.
In the run up to the WTO trade talks next week in Mexico, the
European Union has called on the WTO to rule on the 'legality of
the Australian quarantine regime' applied to imports of a large
number of food products of EU...
Moves by Dutch grocery retailer Laurus to lift itself back into the
black appear to be working, with a leap back into profit in the
first half. But the streamlined group still has a long way to go.
Kids are being packed off to school with lunchboxes full of salty,
sugary and fatty foods - exactly the wrong kind of diet for primary
school children, according to a recent survey from the UK Food
Standards Agency. But striking the...
As Europe and the United States square themselves for the battle of
the GM at the upcoming WTO trade talks in Cancun, Mexico next week,
it would appear that US consumers are far less concerned than their
politicans about biotechnology,...
Tel Aviv stock exchange-listed Frutarom Industries has welcomed a
new company into its stable - Frutarom Switzerland - previously
known as Emil Flachsmann, and by doing so pushes itself deeper into
the botanical extracts market.
Contrary to recent press speculation, the UK premix market is still
alive and kicking, claims one manufacturer, with established brands
showing growth as less sucessful newcomers fall by the wayside.
Health concerns appear to take a back seat when it comes to British
snack habits: Walkers crisps was by far the biggest UK grocery
brand last year. Premium bread brands, Diet Coke and its
'full-fat'parent, and Nescafé also...
Morrisons, the chain most likely to be given the all clear to bid
for Safeway, is thought to be considering reducing its offer in the
light of a weakening performance from Safeway over the last few
months. But with Safeway's...
Germany's Spar group slipped deeper into the red in the first half
of the year, hit by the weak domestic economy and delays to its
much-needed restructuring programme. But the chain remains
confident of an upturn in the second...
Europe's biggest food retail group Carrefour has reported sales
growth of 1.3 per cent for the first half of 2003, even after the
impact of negative currency exchanges. Second quarter sales grew at
current rates for the first...
The steady decline in market share of small stores is not due to
the growth of hypermarkets - targeted by tough 1996 legislation -
but by that of supermarkets, claims Anged, the Spanish association
of large store operators.
Balancing liberalisation with a better deal for developing
countries must be a priority for the World Trade Organisation as
figures from a new report released yesterday show that
protectionism and subsidies by industrialised nations...
Imminent reforms to the EU sugar regime - likely to be more radical
than estimated - could slice millions off the sugar profits for
Associated British Foods (ABF), the owner of British Sugar, and
Danisco next year, predicts a recent...
UK texture analysis designer and manufacturer Stable Micro Systems
to unveil high speed, heavy duty texture analyser - the TA.Hdplus -
at the Fi Europe exhibition in Frankfurt, Germany in November 2003.
As the countdown to the September rendez-vous for WTO global trade
negotiations in Cancun in Mexico begins, European agriculture
commissioner Franz Fischler shares his views on globalisation and
the market economy, and in particular,...
Aarhus Oliefabrik, baptised Aarhus United by the company's board on
Monday, felt the negative impact of currency rates and a sharp drop
in demand for bulk oils with results for the first six months of
2003 delivering a sharp...
The "French paradox" - the intriguing phenomenon that pitches
France's rich cuisine against a slender population - can be
explained in part by portions that are significantly smaller in
French restaurants and supermarkets...
The power of pestering children - and, more importantly, of food
industry advertising - is not great enough to persuade most parents
to buy potentially unhealthy food for their kids. A new survey
shows that most British parents rate...
