News & Analysis on Chocolate, Candy and Cocoa
Research into walnuts, a key ingredient used in a range of biscuit and confectionery products will help lift stagnant sales for food makers in the sector giving them an opportunity to cash in on the growing functional food market, reports Lindsey Partos.
The US probiotic industry needs to step up a gear and finance further research in order to win over consumer confidence by providing scientific proof of its health benefits, according to research published by the International Food Information Service.
UK food and ingredients firm Associated British Foods has beaten full year profit expectations after posting double-digit growth against a backdrop of firmer commodity pricing and adverse currency movements. The performance underlines that ABF is well...
Rexam, the UK-based global packaging company, has reached an agreement to acquire the 40 per cent shareholding it does not own in the Chinese beverage can business, Rexam Beverage Can Zhao Qing, from its joint venture partner, Hua Xing Investment Limited.
A new version of the globally recognised British Retail Consortium (BRC) Food Standard is about to be published next month, with a view to coming into force on 1 June 2005.
Cocoa prices have leapt in London, driven by fears that instability in Ivory Coast, that produces some 40 per cent of global crops, could impact supplies.
Strong campaigning by a top Singapore authority has lured UK sugar giants Tate and Lyle to choose Singapore as the home of its new £97 million sucralose factory, as the firm looks to launch its zero calorie, sugar-based sweetner across the region.
Fonterra, the New Zealand dairy co-operative, is looking to exploit a growing market for intellectual property (IP) licensing by creating a new formulated milk business to join its line of value-added subsidiaries, reports Tom Armitage.
Barry Callebaut, the world's top supplier of industrial chocolate to the confectionery industry, has delivered strong profit for the year, boosted by the integration of recently acquired US confectionery firm Brach's and Belgian-Dutch chocolate group...