News & Analysis on Chocolate, Candy and Cocoa
Anglo-Dutch consumer giant Unilever is set to overhaul its management structure - a move which it claims will help restore top-line sales growth and allow it to draw a line under what it called an "unsatisfactory" 2004 performance, Tom Armitage reports.
Scandinavian confectioner Cloetta Fazer remains optimistic that it can turnaround flagging Polish sales, despite posting disappointing 2004 operating profits, Tom Armitage reports.
Seizures of conterfeit food products and medicines entering the EU increased by 77 per cent from 2002 to 2003, according to the European Commission. Foodstuffs seized included sweets, waffles, chewing gum and even apples.
Bidding for the food ingredients business at Degussa, Germany's third largest chemicals group, could be underway by the start of the second quarter.
Tate & Lyle's Splenda brand in the news again this week as McNeil Nutritionals, the table-top supplier of this increasingly popular sweetener, takes the US sugar industry to court.