News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
Alongside the growing wealth of the average CEE consumer, the region's food retail sector is growing at an unprecedented rate, a recently published report finds. Fuelling that growth is the boom in large-scale supermarket and hypermarket operations,...
Following a year of investments in its production facility, leading Hungarian pasta producer Soos Tesztagyarto, based in Vecses, near Budapest, has said that it is now gearing up to increase its yearly production to meet demand from both national and...
They say technology never stays still. As if to prove this adage, Vivid Learning Systems, a provider of web and intranet-based compliance and regulatory training programmes, has just announced its purchase of the website Foodsafety.com and key course...
Researchers working in Canada have discovered that an optimal UV irradiation system can be developed for individual food products, taking into account the UV transmittance of each product. These findings, published in the Journal of Science of Food...
Cencosud, the Chilean supermarket group, has ended its exclusive talks with Dutch retailer Ahold over the acquisition of the latter's Argentinian unit, Disco, after failing to reach an agreement.
China's soybean shopping team left for the US this week. Top of the list? Contracts in the range of 1.5 million tonnes of soybeans, predicts the Chinese government.
Carrefour, the biggest European retail group and the world's second largest supermarket operator, is to begin a major overhaul of its supply chain IT systems with its Asian operations.
Set against the backdrop of difficult trading conditions for branded food manufacturers, raw material prices and a negative currency impact played down first half figures for ingredients giant Danisco.
Estonian state-owned cooking oil manufacturer Werol Tehased has announced plans to launch a pilot project for the production protein derived from rape seed oil. The company is also mulling over a number of other projects, including the production of...