06-Apr-2001 - Danish sugar, food ingredients and packaging group Danisco announced this week that is is to sell its flexible packaging unit to a new joint venture...
06-Apr-2001 - French dairy and biscuits Groupe Danone said it has halted construction of a global research center in Palaiseau, near Paris, after the Ile-de-France regional government...
05-Apr-2001 - Consumer and environmental groups around the globe have urged US President Bush to stop all exports of U.S. corn and food aid that may be...
05-Apr-2001 - Hicks, Muse, Tate and Furst, the buy-out firm, beat HJ Heinz's offer for parts of bankrupt US food group Vlasic, by agreeing a deal to...
05-Apr-2001 - Commenting on a report by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on food industry practices related to allergens in food products, (see FoodNavigator.com news 4.4.01),...
05-Apr-2001 - Dutch-based natural food distributor and marketer Koninklijke Wessanen announced this week an expected agreement to buy a 41 per cent stake in Dutch company Natudis...
05-Apr-2001 - U.S. agrifood giant Archer Daniels Midland Co. this week took control of the cocoa assets of Sifca, Ivory Coast's last big locally controlled commodities exporter...
04-Apr-2001 - Nestlé has pulled its probiotic LC1 Go! live yoghurt drink from the supermarket shelves less than three years after it was launched with a £2m...
04-Apr-2001 - The European Commission this week cleared the acquisition of Unilever's European Culinary Brands Businesses (ECBB) by US group Campbell Soup Co. The sale fulfills the...
04-Apr-2001 - The European Commission on Tuesday confirmed that measures imposed on France over foot-and-mouth disease would be relaxed and the sale and export of non-treated milk,...
04-Apr-2001 - Despite labelling regulations as many as 25 per cent of manufacturers failed to list common ingredients that can cause potentially fatal allergic reactions, the US...
03-Apr-2001 - Shares in Australian beer and wine company Foster's Brewing Group rose to a new all-time high on Monday, IndustrySearch reports. The report claims that according...
03-Apr-2001 - The burgeoning sports nutrition market continues to gain pace, so reveals market research company Frost & Sullivan in a recent survey. According...
03-Apr-2001 - Glenmorangie, the last independent distiller of single malt Scotch whiskies, on Monday took on the production and bottling of Drambuie, the liqueur made from a...
02-Apr-2001 - Americans eat an average of four meals a day, according to a recent survey by market research company Mintel Consumer Intelligence. The...
02-Apr-2001 - Shares in US red meat packer IBP fell sharply on Friday following the decision by chicken producer Tyson to pull out of its $3.2bn purchase...
02-Apr-2001 - Consumer products giant, Unilever NV, is considering an end to its 64 year old production operations in Sri Lanka as rising costs and labour action...
30-Mar-2001 - French dairy and biscuit company Groupe Danone SA, announced on Thursday plans to shut down six factories and to cut almost 1,200 jobs to trim...
30-Mar-2001 - British high street chain Marks and Spencer is to close all its overseas stores the company announced on Thursday. The company made the move to...
30-Mar-2001 - The meat and poultry industry have yet another new internet marketplace online.Provision X opened for business on Thursday with five suppliers including Cargill's red meat...
29-Mar-2001 - Irish food and ingredients company the Kerry Group has expanded its ingredients business in Asia by investing Euro 28 million in the acquisition and expansion...
29-Mar-2001 - American snacks and soft drinks giant PepsiCo, cleared one regulatory hurdle in its plan to acquire Quaker Oats, after receiving approval from the European Commission...
29-Mar-2001 - Firms that use the Web to buy goods and services could slash purchasing time and costs by more than 70 per cent, a recent survey...
29-Mar-2001 - As Britain prepared to slaughter hundreds of thousands more healthy sheep that may have been exposed to foot-and-mouth disease, the government indicated on Wednesday that...
29-Mar-2001 - Leading Dutch meat processor Dumeco is to buy Meatpoint, the fresh meat division of Sturko Meat Group . Dumeco is currently the second largest pig meat...