News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
Ongoing growth in cultures sales to the dairy industry and health markets helped the Danish ingredients firm Chr Hansen post a modest rise in revenue for the food ingredients division in the first six months. Organic growth for the group rose 5 per...
DSO Fluid Handling, a manufacturer of replacement and maintenance parts for processing plants in the ready-to-eat food and dairy industries, is offering antimicrobial protection for rubber parts. The company believes that heat-cured rubber compounds...
Improved flavour sales in Europe gaining from modest gains in currency conversions boosted first quarter results for the US flavour giant International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF). Strategies in 2003 to get the company back into profitability could be...
Quality is key to the future success of the UK on-trade if it is to emerge from the shadow of a buoyant take-home market and generate new momentum for beer sales, according to a new assessment of the sector by the UK arm of brewing giant Interbrew....
A new strategy designed to give Britain's retail sector early warning of new regulations which could affect the way stores do business has been welcomed by the industry, which hailed it as a first step towards improving the lot of a sector which...
Earlier this month CAOBISCO, the body which represents European manufacturers of sugar-based foods, came racing to side of the businesses it represents in the accession countries. Once installed in an enlarged Europe, the new Member States face a hike...
As 15 EU member states become 25, Europeans everywhere are reaching for atlases that look suddenly archaic as they predate the statehood of more than half the accession countries. The European map has changed faster than the European bookshelf. And...
Diets rich in lean beef can help teenagers maintain their levels of useable iron and contribute to balanced eating habits, say researchers at the University of Iowa College of Public Health.
A day before the enlargement of the EU, which will see eight central and eastern European countries join the Union, one of Europe's biggest retail groups, Metro, has reported first quarter growth driven by an excellent performance in the new member...
The meat of Australia's bush kangaroo may be the highest known source of the healthy fat CLA, an Australian scientist has discovered.
Smart risk management moves guided the world's leading oilseed processor Bunge to a massive 75 per cent rise in income for the first quarter as the price of soybeans reached 15 year highs on poor crop harvests last year.
Eight former Communist countries from central and eastern Europe will tomorrow join the European Union, the culmination of 15 years of rapid economic and social development since the end of Soviet rule. But with most of the leading food retailers in...
Marcin Morawiecki is the vice-president of Racke International, a company that imports wine and spirits into Poland. He has cancelled the company's planned accession celebrations tonight on account of the bureaucratic nightmare currently turning the...