VION Food and Ingredients will close its pork manufacturing site in the Netherlands to restructure its operations there and in Germany, further concentrating on pork and beef markets.
Heineken has played down a 4.7% slump in global sales of its eponymous brand versus Q4 2012, blaming bad weather in Europe and retailer destocking in France and the US.
RPC Group struck an optimistic note as it announced buoyant half year profits, selected segment expansion and predicted above average future growth for the rigid packaging sector as the trend towards glass substitution continued.
Look at the globe and you’d be hard pressed to find two countries further apart than Ireland and New Zealand. But they stand side-by-side on the folic acid fortification issue – it is not needed.
Announcements of new R&D plans this week from Nestle and Danone indicate that major manufacturers plan to keep up the pace on nutrition research and innovation in the economic downturn.
After gaining novel foods approval in the EU, baobab is tipped to become a billion dollar industry. Stephen Daniells speaks to William Smith from Afriplex to find out what foods baobab fruit pulp is turning up in, and whether supply can match the demand.
Pepsi and Unilever are to extend their agreement over distribution
and marketing of the Lipton ready-to-drink tea brand to target a
growing global demand for the products..
Dutch brewer Grolsch defended its stand against supermarket price
cuts on beer in the Netherlands, despite losing market share in the
first half of 2006.
Grolsch, the Dutch brewer, has begun boycotting a top supermarket
in the Netherlands after a dispute over beer prices, in a new
demonstration of supplier power.
Heineken has come out fighting after announcing losses so far in
2005 with plans to cut back on brands and step up efficiency drives
to beat cost pressures and stagnant Western European beer markets.
Heineken has ended talks to increase its stake in the Chinese
brewer Kingway, according to a report, after a lack of progress in
discussions with its controlling shareholder GDH.
Ter Beke's acquisition of the Dutch Langeveld Sleegers, a market
leader in the field of processed meats slicing and pre-packaging,
could be of great strategic importance to the company, writes
Anthony Fletcher.
CSM, the Dutch food ingredients company continues to shed non-core
activities, signing off its stake in natural alcohol supplier
Koninklijke Nedalco in a €24 million deal.
Heineken, the Dutch brewer, has continued to extend its reach into
some of the world's lesser-known beer markets with an agreement to
take a controlling stake in Nigeria's Consolidated Breweries,
writes Chris Jones.
Equipment manufacturer CFS has come up with a novel way of
exhibiting its new products at the forthcoming IFFA 2004 show.
Instead of bringing all its machinery to Frankfurt, the company
plans to take event-goers to its production...
Consumer packaging group, Rexam, has announced the acquisition of
Heineken glass plant Glas Moerdijk in the Netherlands. The company
has bought the plant for €43 million in a move that will strengthen
it's position with Heineken...
A new gelatine replacer from Dutch company DMV International
carried off the gold award for the most innovative new ingredient
on the marketplace, rounding off the first day of the bustling Fi
Europe exhibition that opened its doors...
Danish ingredients company Danisco will expand its flavour creation
centres in the Netherlands and Belgium as part of the restructuring
of its flavour research and development facilities.
The acquisition of premium Champagne brand Pommery earlier this
year is already paying off for Vranken Monopole, which saw its
sales rise by more than 50 per cent in the first nine months of the
year.
Purchases and new production facilities have so far marked the
healthy growth of Dutch life science company DSM in 2002. This week
the company announced further acquisitions with the purchase of the
food coatings activities of Vaessen...
The rapid growth of Belgian beer giant Interbrew has prompted the
company to assess how best to optimise its capacity. As a result,
the group is closing one Dutch brewery and significantly reducing
production at one of its UK plants,...
