MIA, the bean-to-bar ethical chocolate company, reinforced its African roots despite COVID-19 challenges by maintaining production at its facility on Madagascar.
Mondelēz International has pledged to increase its commitment to reduce use of virgin plastics in its packaging, as part of the confectionery giant’s ongoing environmental efforts across its portfolio.
Aligned to its long-term sustainability targets, the McVitie’s maker is adopting a collection of new initiatives, including the total removal of non-recyclable black plastic from its portfolio.
We have entered into a new era of food safety and with the current situation fuelling fears around food contamination more than ever before, producers have been paying special attention to equipment cleanliness and effective pack sealing, says Edward...
ISM has announced it has launched a new product and trend campaign to run throughout 2021 as a partial replacement to the live trade fair, which should have been taking place this week at Cologne’s Koelnmesse exhibition centre.
Nestlé’s Smarties is set to become the first global confectionery brand to switch to recyclable paper packaging, eliminating approximately 250 million plastic packs sold worldwide every year.
Black Lives Matter supporters may not be taking to the streets or grabbing headlines as often as they were last summer, but the social and racial injustices that drove them their persist, which is why KIND Healthy Snacks is deepening its commitment to...
Cargill has confirmed it is laying off 38 workers from its Cocoa & Chocolate plant in Milwaukee after deciding to outsource part of its packaging and shipping operation.
The food sector – and society more generally – needs to take a joined-up approach to issues around plastics, pollution, food safety and waste, Dow Packaging and Specialty’s Sustainability Director Jeff Wooster tells FoodNavigator. “These issues are interconnected;...
Mondelēz International has said its sustainable packaging progress has been highlighted in the UK Plastics Pact Report as the company makes progress towards its long-term vision of zero net waste packaging.
Adult selection box change is latest move made towards company’s vision of creating zero net waste packaging through its ‘Pack Light and Pack Right’ strategy.
For today’s consumers ‘clean label’ is less about the ingredients featured back-of-pack and more about what isn’t listed, be it preservatives, genetically modified ingredients or artificial sweeteners, according to L.E.K. Consulting.
McVitie’s brand owner pladis has taken another step towards improving its sustainability credentials by rewrapping its popular Christmas biscuit assortment in its most sustainable packaging yet.
Shorr Packaging recently published its 2020 Food Packaging & Consumer Behavior Report, which looks into how food packaging can dictate consumer purchasing decisions.
GCB Cocoa, a Malaysian-owned chocolate company, has announced the acquisition of a former Phillips electronics factory in the UK with a pledge to invest £62.2m and the creation of 220 jobs.
Upmarket grocery store Fortnum & Mason claims to have launched the world’s first totally green chocolate slate, transported over 4,000 miles from the island of Grenada to London’s Piccadilly.
The supplier says its innovations with different levels of oils and fats can assist the food industry in its quest to balance nutrition with taste and indulgence.
Snacking giant announces it will reduce the packaging by 15% across its iconic large Cadbury share bags as part of the company’s strategy to eliminate 65,000 tonnes of packaging by the end of 2020.
Mettler-Toledo Product Inspection has announced the launch of two new Product Data Check technology options to perform product label checks on a wide variety of food and pharmaceutical packaging to minimise rework, mitigate recalls, reduce waste, improve...
The Upcycled Food Association (UFA) is holding a free official Climate Week NYC 2020 virtual event, which will help snack producers know what upcycled foods are, how they help and where to source them.
UK-based chocolate and confectionery firm Hames Chocolates shares its story of dealing with the coronavirus – and how a pause in production allowed it to plan for the future.
Syntegon Technology has launched its Pack 202 next generation of flow wrappers, suitable for bars, bakery products, cookies and crackers, as well as non-food applications.
Ferrero has announced a revamped look with a new logo for its popular Crunch chocolate bar. The blue and red wrapper “everyone knows and loves will still stand true”, but is now completed with a modernized look to visually depict its 100% real milk chocolate...
Cadbury-owner Mondelēz International says it remains committed to reformulation via reducing portion sizes after a backlash over its move to shrink the sizes of all Cadbury chocolate bars sold in multipacks in the UK without changing the price.
Tray sealing specialist Proseal claims to have launched a revolutionary tray positioning system that calculates the required tray-spacing set-up parameters for individual tray sealing tool-sets, eliminating the trial and error usually associated with...
Italian packaging company SACMI has announced it has bought Puglia-based company Pack Sud - a leading supplier of bakery product vertical packaging technology.
With almost one in four UK confectionery buyers now claiming they choose sugar-reduced or sugar-free sweets over standard ones, sugar reduction is big business.
Supplier industry for sweets and snacks is placing its bets on a re-start after the coronavirus pandemic and is already looking at numerous bookings from firms in Europe and beyond.
The sustainable plant-based edible oils and fats specialist will inaugurate its first Creative Studio in Istanbul in Q3, a dedicated workspace designed to accelerate customer innovation in the growing Middle East/North African markets, while adhering...
Cocoa supplier Cargill has announced a significant expansion in Asia with the launch of its first chocolate manufacturing operation in western India with growth plans across region.
Group said it has reinforced its commitment in the Asia Pacific market by expanding its production at its Singapore facility by adding a fourth chocolate line.
COCO - The Art of Chocolate is an artisan chocolatier based in Edinburgh, Scotland, that places its emphasis not only on ethically sourced cocoa and fine couverture, but also the meticulous designs on its wrappers.
Nestlé International Travel Retail (ITR) has chosen Smarties to become the first global children’s confectionery brand to incorporate the company’s no single use plastic packaging.
Consumers are now paying more attention to the ingredients and nutritional content in the products they purchase and are becoming more mindful about what they put in their bodies, food experts and analysts agree, and confectionery is on the front line...
Bunge Loders Croklaan, one of the leading companies in edible specialty oils and fats production, has developed ‘Sweetolin’ that will enable up to 50% less sugar in the final confectionery product with ‘no compromise on taste experience’.
Swiss manufacturer claims it has developed a new era of moulding with the launch of its ChocoX (pronounced Choco Cross) system that combines ‘flexibility and agility in production and hygienic design, resulting in significantly lower operational costs’.
