News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is to increase its capital charter investement in Danone Industria in a move that is expected to help finance expansion plans, allowing the company to more than double its annual production in...
Duckworth Flavours says that following its acquisition by Cargill at the start of the year it will now be focusing on supplying ingredients to the eastern European markets in a bid to increase its position in the European ingredients market. Simon...
Food makers might want to push the value of full fat dressings as food scientists in the US claim they could boost our health by increasing the body's ability to absorb disease-fighting carotenoids.
Central European Distribution Corporation, a leading distributor of alcoholic beverages in Poland, is predicting another strong financial performance by unveiling an increase in its preliminary second quarter profits. The figures are said to have been...
A new TV advert for UK snack brand Nik Naks highlights the continued development of the product's 'personality' by owner Golden Wonder, an approach which continues to win over new consumers to the quirky snack even at the height of the health food craze.
Malt- and chocolate-based drinks are often seen as relatively unsophisticated in developed markets in the west, but in many countries, in particular in Latin America, they are big business indeed, marketed mostly as an excellent source of nutrition in...
France's lawmakers have banned soft drink and chocolate bar vending machines in schools from the beginning of the 2005/06 school year, a measure designed to nip the growing childhood obesity problem in the bud.
The increasingly popular herbal extract aloe vera may be able to prolong the amount of time a trauma injury patient can survive before receiving treatment, such as a blood transfusion, according to researchers at the University of Pittsburgh.
Breakthrough talks at the weekend on world trade will have received a reticent welcome from a European food industry likely to see the phasing out of payouts to export food products.
Two years after the UK government launched an organic action plan for the entire food supply chain, the country has seen a 46 per cent rise in organic produce provided by UK farms.
Slim Technologies has combined its supply chain modelling software with optimisation solver Xpress-MP to offer users such as Alcoa run times of up to 15 times faster.