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31-Aug-2004
Tough year for Spanish confectioners
Product mix difficulties meant that Spanish sugar confectionery producers were unable to match increased volume sales with a rise in revenues in 2003. The children's confectionery market, in particular, failed...
Healthy results for Kerry
Ongoing demand for healthy products helped Irish food and ingredients firm Kerry to a strong first half performance. And with recent acquisitions pushing it into other high growth sectors, there...
30-Aug-2004
Chocolate helps regulate blood flow
More research has underlined the heart health benefits of dark chocolate, shown in a Greek study to improve healthy blood flow and prevent clots forming.
CSM considers selling sugar confectionery unit
CSM, the Dutch food ingredients company, is considering the sale of its sugar confectionery unit in order to concentrate on its core bakery supplies and sugar operations - despite a...
Epi Ingredients adds yoghurt powders to portfolio
The continuing popularity of yoghurt - and in particular its health benefits - has led to a raft of new product innovation as companies in market sectors outside the dairy...
Spanish confectioners bemoan almond shortage
One of Spain's most traditional Christmas delicacies, turron, could be in short supply this year after a disastrous harvest for the key ingredient, almonds.
27-Aug-2004
Novel peptides herald next generation foods
Dutch ingredients company DSM revealed yesterday that its muscle recovery ingredient PeptoPro will be marketed in a new range of products worldwide by Europe's biggest sports nutrition company Haleko.
26-Aug-2004
Taking the cookie test
Efficient, profitable baking is not just a question of having the right equipment for the job - it is also knowing how to use it properly. With this in mind,...
25-Aug-2004
Sugar industry defends its prime ingredient
The contribution that the common sweetener ingredient sucrose has made to the growing incidence of obesity is the focus of a dispute between the US sugar association and a New...
24-Aug-2004
Lindt beats expectations
Swiss chocolate maker Lindt & Sprüngli has revealed strong results that put organic growth in double figures and gave it its first ever year with no first-half operating loss. The...
Hershey wins first round, but diet bar battle continues
Hershey Foods Corporation has won the first round in the fight for the association of its nutrition bars with the popular low-carb dietary regime, Zone Diet, in what promises to...
20-Aug-2004
Dairy continues to drive Nestlé results
Dairy products remain an important growth driver for Swiss food and beverages group Nestlé, despite the disposal of a number of assets and poor weather conditions which affected sales during...
Small and large stores to drive UK growth
Convenience stores and hypermarkets - formats at opposite ends of the retail spectrum - will be the main drivers of growth in the British food retail market over the next...
19-Aug-2004
EFSA risk opinion on jelly mini-cup additives could equate to full ban
Europe's food safety body has concluded that jelly mini-cups made with a range of food additives derived from seaweed and certain gums, from xanthan gum to calcium alginate, could constitute...
18-Aug-2004
Food industry to see relief in commodity price pressures?
Increased harvests for key food commodities could suggest a near-term easing up of price pressures for ingredients companies and food manufacturers but an overall draw-down in global stocks means prices...
Expanding Israeli firm buys IFF's natural fruit flavours
Ambitious Israeli flavours firm Frutarom has bought the European natural fruit preparations business from the world's number two flavours player just months after completing on the Swiss botanical extracts firm...
More label space
Canadian company, IdeaPacked Communications, has developed new labelling technology for the nutraceutical and dietary supplements industry. It is said to provide a more efficient and cost-effective means of multi-functional labelling...
17-Aug-2004
UK food makers prepare for new food allergen rules
While universally welcomed by food manufacturers, retailers and consumer allergy groups alike, one aspect of the new European directive on food allergen labelling has proved unpopular and is now slated...
16-Aug-2004
Menlo adopts RFID software
Supply chain management firm Menlo Worldwide has added a warehouse management system with radio frequency identification (RFID) capabilities to its offering in order to help suppliers and manufacturers meet the...
Intralox invests in plastic conveyor technology
More and more food manufacturers are turning to plastic conveyor belts, if two new products from Intralox are anything to go by.
Kellogg sets up European HQ in Ireland
US cereals and snacks group Kellogg is to centralise its European operations in a new office in Ireland, giving it a major presence in the market with the world's highest...
13-Aug-2004
Tagatose chocolate has low GI
Food makers will be encouraged to use a low-calorie sweetener supplied by Danish ingredients firm Arla Food Ingredients with a new study showing a chocolate bar made with the prebiotic...
Starch firm petitions FDA to break fibre out of 'total carbohydrate content'
The complex issue of carbohydrate labelling fired up by the low-carb trend will move up a gear next month when the FDA is expected to release proposed rules on how...
12-Aug-2004
Nestlé installs enterprise-wide streamlining initiative
Nestlé, the largest food and beverage company in the world, has selected the Quadrem eMarketplace as the partner for its global eRequisitioning programme, part of an enterprise-wide initiative Nestle is...
Denmark bans fortified cereals under new fortification policy
Vitamin-enriched products made by Kellogg, the world's biggest cereal maker, have been blocked from entering the Danish market by a new policy for assessing the safety of fortified foods.
10-Aug-2004
Mieszko on acquisition trail
Leading Polish confectionery company Mieszko says it is currently in negotiations to acquire a company within the confectionery sector in the course of this year. The company added that at...
Volume sales lifts Degussa 1H
Building on a stronger start to the year, Germany's third largest chemicals group reports continued growth into the second quarter with an increase in demand pushing up sales and earnings...
EU sugar reform unlikely to impact world market
Firm changes to the heavily criticised European sugar regime are unlikely to have a significant effect on the world sugar market, and that prices are likely to remain low, a...
09-Aug-2004
EU funds pour into obesity issue
Brussels invests in the fat issue backing a five-year programme to investigate the most effective way dietary fat change could impact the current worldwide obesity epidemic.
06-Aug-2004
Teikoku revolutionises counterfeit-proof packaging
Japan-based engineering firm Teikoku Piston Ring has developed a hologram identification label that brings anti-counterfeiting packaging to new levels.
05-Aug-2004
Chewy vitamins for 'tweens'
As Hero Nutritionals adds a new product to its line, in the form of Yummi Bears Sourz and Yummi Gworms Sourz, multi-vitamins targeted at "tweens" - or children aged eight...
Moldflow launches plastic packaging design software
Plastic packaging specialist Moldflow has launched design analysis software that it claims will help manufacturers achieve more advanced packaging designs in less time.
04-Aug-2004
Nestlé takes a break from Kit Kat slogan
For 47 years, the UK's most consistently popular chocolate bar has been advertised with the slogan 'Have a break, have a Kit Kat', a phrase which has entered the British...
02-Aug-2004
Sweetener settlement knocks ADM profits
US ingredients giant ADM saw double-digit sales growth for the year but overall profits were dragged down by a recent payout of millions of dollars to leading food and beverage...
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