News & Analysis for the Beverage Industry
Asian Pacific Breweries (APB), Heineken's Asian based partner company, is set to launch a new beverage which combines the qualities of beer and champagne. Touché is brewed with champagne yeast which gives it an enhanced flavour, the company claims....
The European Commission has approved Air Liquide's proposed acquisition of Messer Griesheim's industrial gas business in Germany, the United Kingdom and the USA. The acquisition alters the balance of power in Europe's industrial gas market, a market...
Retailers and food manufacturers are working more closely than ever to create products designed for contemporary lifestyles, based on the latest technology. This has resulted in an explosion in the market for ready to eat meals, a market in which...
A lack of integration at a European level is 'severely hampering' efforts to co-ordinate stakeholder efforts - food industry and independent scientists - in the area of chemical contaminants in food, warn Swedish scientists. But Commission funds worth...
The Coca-Cola recall has highlighted the urgent need for manufacturers to install efficient systems to achieve complete traceability. Consumers, and the law, will settle for nothing less, writes Anthony Fletcher.
Food manufacturers using the sweetener cyclamate face change as they come to grips with new European rules that radically reduce the use of this man-made, non-caloric sweetener 30 times as sweet as sucrose. German ingredients firm Nutrinova has come...