Archives for May 4, 2004

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Speciality starches lift National Starch Q1

UK chemicals giant ICI closes on a €305 million deal with Irish food and ingredients firm Kerry to shed the struggling ingredients arm of its flavours subsidiary Quest International. In the same week, the ICI group - that includes National Starch -...

Slimmed down Quest launches flavour delivery system

Ongoing innovation from ingredients and additives firms operating in the competitive flavours domain brings food developers new opportunities to improve the final product. ICI flavour subsidiary Quest International, streamlined this week through the...

ADM profits double

Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) - the US' leading food processor - has reported record third quarter results across all its segment operations. The company's processing segments benefited from rallies in corn and soybean futures early this year as prices...

Spanish retailers show good growth

Two Spanish retail groups unveiled their 2003 results last week, and both showed the benefits of a year of continued expansion in the supermarket sector. But will either Eroski or Caprabo be interested in further growth this year, as Ahold sells off...

Mixed first quarter from Casino, Laurus

Two European food retail groups issued their first quarter results last month, figures which reflected the ongoing tough conditions in many countries across Europe and the rest of the world.

CEE supermarkets to increase exports

Leading foreign supermarket chains in eastern Europe claim they are expecting to significantly increase their food exports to foreign subsidiaries throughout Europe, giving a major boost to food producers there, writes Simon Pitman.

New DSM tech claims to eliminate acrylamide

Sending a ripple of fear through the food industry, in 2002 the Swedish Food Administration found high levels of the cancer-causing compound acrylamide in carbohydrate-rich foods heated to high temperatures. As global efforts in food science strive to...

Migros caters for coeliac customers

Migros, the Swiss food retailer, has launched a range of gluten-free products aimed specifically at coeliacs, the first time the co-operative group has catered for sufferers of the digestive disease.