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McCormick sheds non-core business
03-Jul-2003 - US spice giant McCormick has sold the assets of Jenks Sales Brokers, a leftover slice from a UK spice purchase in the 1980s. The Jenks...
Flavour innovation for soya milk
01-Jul-2003 - Moves to increase market share drove Belgian soy product developer Alpro to develop a chocolate flavour fresh soya milk for the British consumer. Launched under...
More buy-back from Swiss flavours
30-Jun-2003 - Swiss flavours and fragrance producer Givaudan today launched a share buy-back programme of up to 800,000 shares by opening a second trading line on the...
Price hike for CP Kelco xanthan gum
30-Jun-2003 - World leader in high-end hydrocolloid products CP Kelco has lifted the price of xanthan gum in response to market conditions. Starting from August 2003, the...
McCormick, the right mix
30-Jun-2003 - US spice maker McCormick & Company saw profits in the second-quarter climb 19 per cent, helped by solid sales growth and interest income from a...
BASF and Fortitech to form a strategic alliance
26-Jun-2003 - On the second day of the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) Annual 2001 meeting in New Orleans, US nutrient systems company Fortitech and chemicals giant...
Functional foods, spreading risk to increase success
25-Jun-2003 - Nestlé's strategy for exploiting the functional food opportunity seems to rest in careful partnerships with other top FMCG companies. By aligning its interests in nutraceuticals...
Rhodia tackles Australia
24-Jun-2003 - Rhodia Food, a subsidiary of French company Rhodia, has strengthened its position in Australia with the signature of a distribution agreement with Australian chemical giant...
Mixing Eastern and Western ingredients
24-Jun-2003 - Bakery ingredients company BakeMark International will be exhibiting in western Europe for the first time at the upcoming IBA exhibition in Germany in October. The...
DSM buys cheese coatings from National Starch
23-Jun-2003 - Dutch company DSM continues its strategy to develop activities in the field of life sciences with the announcement this week that it has acquired Plasticoat,...
A level playing field for global food trade
23-Jun-2003 - The European food and drink industry - the second largest world exporter of processed foodstuffs - made calls for a fairer playing field for members...
Indian fats and oils to Bunge
23-Jun-2003 - US agribusiness Bunge continues on the road to expansion with the news that it is to acquire Hindustan Lever's edible oils and fats businesses from...
New player on flavours field
20-Jun-2003 - Swiss plant extracts business Emil Flachsmann has been bought by flavours multinational Frutarom, for an undisclosed sum, the companies said this week. The integrated businesses...
Steady results for Danisco
20-Jun-2003 - A satisfactory fourth quarter helped Danish ingredients giant Danisco achieve a 17 per cent increase in earnings per share for the 2002/2003. The company reports...
Organics continue to grow - naturally!
20-Jun-2003 - Growing consumer awareness about health issues and the potential benefits of a healthy diet, mixed with concerns about genetic engineering, have created an expanding market...
Givaudan continues to buy back shares
19-Jun-2003 - Swiss flavour and fragrance company Givaudan has decided to start a new share buy back programme of up to 800,000 registered shares - representing 10...
WHO consults global food industry
19-Jun-2003 - Talks on solutions to combat the growing global incidence of chronic disease continued this week when officials from the World Health Organisation (WHO) met in...
Flavours to drive oleoresin growth
19-Jun-2003 - The innovative world of flavours is experiencing more rapid growth than the overall food industry, giving fresh momentum to the essential oils and oleoresins market,...
BASF suspends lysine production
18-Jun-2003 - BASF Fine Chemicals division said this week that it will temporarily suspend lysine production at its Gunsan, Korea plant due to essential maintenance work. The...
Stollwerck squeeze-out on hold
18-Jun-2003 - Swiss-based cocoa processor, Barry Callebaut, said this week that it had suspended efforts to take full control of chocolate maker Stollwerck after minority shareholders in...
The omega gamble, investing in functional foods
17-Jun-2003 - Intensive marketing and increased health preoccupations could both be responsible for the mounting consumer awareness of fatty acids in Australia and New Zealand and the...
Martek signs agreement with market leader
17-Jun-2003 - Quite a week for nutritional oils supplier Martek Biosciences. In the past seven days, the European Commission gave the green light for the use of...
Carrot juice with added 'eye' benefit
16-Jun-2003 - US consumers can soon expect to see juices fortified with the natural ingredient lutein on the supermarket shelves following an agreement between ingredients company Kemin...
The demise of the great tea-drinking tradition?
16-Jun-2003 - Can it be true ? Are the British - a nation of tea-lovers - really turning down a nice cuppa in favour of alternative beverages...
NPD for ice cream flavours takes new direction
13-Jun-2003 - Product innovation is nowhere more evident than in the dynamic world of flavours. News this week from a leading UK brewer could mark a new...
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