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Cargill steps up grapefruit supplies
13-Jun-2003 - In a bid to encourage a closer collaboration between citrus growers and juice manufacturing customers, Cargill Citro Pure - a joint venture between Cargill Citro-America,...
Roof change for Solae employees
12-Jun-2003 - Recently formed ingredients company Solae is to consolidate its headquarters, administrative and research operations into the St. Louis metropolitan area. Representatives of the company have...
AstraZeneca sheds Quorn business
10-Jun-2003 - AstraZeneca, the international pharmaceutical group, last week announced that it was to sell its Marlow Foods unit - which makes the meat replacement product Quorn...
Solae sues ADM
06-Jun-2003 - Just a few months old, the recently formed alliance between US agribusiness giant Bunge and DuPont Protein Technologies - Solae - has already filed a...
CSM to buy Avebe unit?
06-Jun-2003 - Dutch food ingredients and confectionery company CSM is in discussions with starch company Avebe about the possible acquisition of its subsidiary Glucona. Operating in the...
R&D focus for flavours at Danisco
06-Jun-2003 - Danish ingredients company Danisco will expand its flavour creation centres in The Netherlands and Belgium as part of the restructuring of the flavour research and...
Sweet year for Tate
06-Jun-2003 - Building on the progress made in 2002, British sweeteners and starch group Tate & Lyle continues to move forward, reporting an 18 per cent rise...
Functional drinks new to the shelves
05-Jun-2003 - 'Healthiness-to-go' appears to be the order of the day on Europe's supermarket shelves as Mintel's Global New Product Database reveals a number of new functional...
Baking ingredients expand in the East
04-Jun-2003 - CSM, the parent of bakery ingredients company BakeMark International , has boosted its fats capabilities for the Eastern European market with the purchase of Unilever's Hungarian...
Boehringer Ingelheim spices up the market
04-Jun-2003 - Trade in spices is nothing new. After all, since the 15th century ships laden with the smells of the Orient have navigated their way to...
Global climate knocks Cognis results
03-Jun-2003 - Speciality chemicals group Cognis reported an organic sales growth of €13.9 million for the first quarter, up 1.7 per cent from the corresponding period for...
US loses Egypt support over GM foods
02-Jun-2003 - Attempts by the United States administration to challenge the EU's five-year-old moratorium on approval of new genetically modified crops before the World Trade Organisation suffered...
Kikkoman, far reaching investment in US
02-Jun-2003 - Japanese soy sauce giant Kikkoman is to forge ahead with plans to expand in the US with the announcement this week that it has earmarked...
Acatris opens new SoyLife factory
31-May-2003 - Acatris, the company formed recently by the merger of various business in the Royal Schouten Group, and fellow Royal Schouten subsidiary Schouten Products, have opened...
Boehringer to export to Europe
30-May-2003 - The Colombian plant of Boehringer Ingelheim, the German pharmaceutical group, has received permission to export to Europe. It intends to export US$ 9.6m worth of...
Positive outlook from leading Irish ingredients company
30-May-2003 - Despite the challenging economic climate, Irish food ingredients, flavours and consumer foods group Kerry expects a good outcome for the full year. Speaking at the...
US-Germano pact to transform soy
30-May-2003 - BASF Plant Science, the plant biotechnology subsidiary of German chemical giant BASF, has signed a long-term research collaboration with US company Phytodyne and focused on...
ICO rounds in on coffee crisis
30-May-2003 - With coffee prices at a 30-year all time low, the International Coffee Organisation and World Bank ended a round table last week with a call...
Robertet remains undervalued but undeterred
28-May-2003 - Robertet, the French flavours and fragrances group, has seen a sharp rise in its share price this year helped by renewed interest in the sector...
Ingredients in an enlarged Europe
28-May-2003 - Against the backdrop of imminent European enlargement the Food Ingredients Central and Eastern Europe (FiCEE) exhibition, which first took place in Hungary in 1999, will...
The future of E-numbers
28-May-2003 - Campaigners in the UK have begun a further assault on the "artificial additives", and their potential effects on child health, writes Lyndsey Greig at Frost...
Yoghurt, the all day snack
27-May-2003 - Manufacturers have been hugely innovative with yoghurt in recent years, focusing on its health benefits in addition to developing more convenient formats and new taste...
Indian colour producers win anti-dumping case
27-May-2003 - Indian producers of the synthetic red colouring allura red have won an antidumping case in the US following investigations from the United States International Trade...
ISP buys into South America
26-May-2003 - International Specialty Products (ISP) continues to consolidate its position on the ingredients market with the news this week that it has acquired Brazilian ingredient systems...
Tea beats halitosis
26-May-2003 - Compounds found in tea can stop the growth of bacteria that cause bad breath, according to researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Polyphenols,...
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