All news articles for October 2018

Father-son team Dr Jurgen and Niels Hower

Editor's Spotlight: Startup Focus

A chocolate bar a day keeps the doctor away?

By Nikki Cutler

A father-son team have combined their expertise in health and retail to create a range of supplemented chocolate products that aim to ‘put the D in delicious’.

Mike Forbes. Pic: Alter Eco

Executives on the move

Alter Eco names former General Mills exec as new CEO

By Douglas Yu

Chocolate maker Alter Eco has named Mike Forbes as its new CEO, as co-founders Edouard Rollet and Mathieu Senard are shifting their focus to establishing the Alter Eco Foundation, a nonprofit for social and environmental change set to launch in 2019.

The Hilton São Paulo Morumbi is the location for this year's WCF Partnership Meeting. Pic: Anthony Myers

WCF Partnership Meeting

Spotlight on South America from the World Cocoa Foundation Conference

By Anthony Myers

As industry leaders, government ministers and representatives from cocoa growing communities gather in Sao Paulo for a WCF Partnership Meeting, we look at what Latin America has to offer in terms of cocoa production, quality, sustainability and diversity.

A Mondelēz UK spokesman said it was a significant contributor to the UK economy

Mondelēz UK counters tax avoidance claims

By Michelle Perrett

Cadbury owner Mondelēz has countered tax avoidance accusations, insisting it has complied with all UK tax legislation and stressing it has invested more than £200m in UK manufacturing and research and development (R&D).

Processing innovation: Robots of the future make their debut at Tokyo Pack 2018

Processing innovation: Tokyo Pack 2018

Robots of the future make their debut at Tokyo Pack 2018

By Jenny Eagle

An MiR100 portable heavy goods robot by Kantum and a flying drone called Prodroneto, which will be launched in December, made their debut at this year’s Tokyo Pack 2018.

How to recruit Millennials. Photo: Depositphotos courtesy of Global Speaker Management.

ECMA Congress 2018

Key hacks for recruiting Millennials

By Jenny Eagle

Companies today are multi-generational made up of Baby Boomers, Generation Z and Millennials but firms are struggling to integrate fresh blood into their workforce because younger employees’ lifestyle and exposure to technology is different to what we...