News & Analysis on Chocolate, Candy and Cocoa
A UK firm has come up with an innovative packaging and processing solution that will allow smaller retailers to create their own branded ice-cream products at the point of sale (POS), giving them the opportunity to penetrate the highly-consolidated UK...
Huge increases in wheat prices have more than halved annual milling profits at top UK firm Carr's Milling Industries - yet the company is confident of getting back on track in 2005 despite warnings that prices will remain volatile, reports Chris Mercer .
Gellan CP Kelco, bought by JM Huber last month, has launched Kelcogel HM-B gellan gum, a hydrocolloid system designed to provide suspension of cocoa and minerals in ready-to-drink dairy based beverages, writes Philippa Nuttall.
Russian edible oils producer Solnechnie Produkti has reported sales growth in excess of that for the market as a whole, the second major producer to do so in as many weeks. As with market leader NMZhK, Solnechnie Produkti's growth has been helped by...
Russian confectionery group Mechta has launched a new premium product line - the latest in a growing number of local producers entering an upmarket segment which was once the sole domain of western companies. Angela Drujinina reports.
Danisco has taken up the low-carb, low-sugar baton and run with it, developing a line of flavours aimed at food manufacturers developing artificially sweetened and reduced sugar beverages and dairy products.
The recent move to ban beer advertising in Russia is just one of a number of challenges facing brewers there, but a recent survey of the country's leading operators suggests that most of them are relishing the challenges to come. Angela Drujinina reports.