News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
After becoming fully family-owned and independent last week, French botanicals and ingredient player Nexira is chasing sales of €150-€160m by 2020 with acquisition, Asian expansion and boosted health and nutrition activity front-and-centre in its plans.
'The first step towards a future with healthy, hardy plants' - but are they GMO?
Cabbages modified with CRISPR-Cas9 “genetic scissors” have been harvested and cooked for what is believed to be the first time, Umeå University says.
Russia is to supply 100,000 Syrians with meat and humanitarian aid after the UN accused it of being responsible for bombs that destroyed a US aid convoy near Aleppo.
Delegates from the UK’s red meat industry met in Bern, Switzerland, to discuss the future of the countries’ trading relationship.
European food manufacturers have “upped their game” and made substantial progress in relation to the procurement of sustainable palm, according to WWF’s 2016 scorecard.
UK milling wheat is set to benefit from a good-quality harvest – and strong demand from Europe as the French crop falls to a 10-year low.
Online impulse purchasing is about knowing your shoppers and making an offer that “would speak to them at exactly the moment that they’re on that webpage," says Mondelēz’s global e-commerce director, Neil Ackerman.
Special edition: Foods for seniors
By 2030 almost one fifth of the global population will be over 60 with their own demands and aspirations. But, as Mintel analyst Richard Cope explains, the food industry still hasn’t woken up to this golden oldie opportunity.
French firm Solina has strengthened its UK presence with the acquisition of specialty sauce manufacturer New Ivory.
Papermaker James Cropper has launched a food contact-approved range of luxury papers for dry, moist and fatty foodstuffs for the food packaging industry.