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Beef safety boosts AES results
06-Nov-2002 - French company AES Laboratoire, which specialises in tests and equipment for research into food contaminants, this week flagged up a turnover of €37.6m for the...
Merging ingredients
06-Nov-2002 - Ingredients company RFI Ingredients, a supplier of natural ingredients for the food and functional food industries, has signed a merger agreement, effective from 1 November,...
British ingredients company boasts solid growth
05-Nov-2002 - British food ingredients and food group Associated British Foods, the maker of Twinings tea and Ryvita crispbread, reported a nine per cent rise in annual...
Suedzucker predicts double-digit rise
05-Nov-2002 - German sugar producer Suedzucker last week reported that sales fell 7.4 per cent in the first half ended 31 August, but operating profit rose 18...
Beghin Say sold, finally
04-Nov-2002 - After months of deliberation and cogitation, Orgny-Naples, a consortium of beet growers' co-operatives, on Friday said it had finally reached an agreement with Edison to...
1Q upbeat for Australian ingredients
04-Nov-2002 - Australian food ingredients group Burns Philp & Co. said on Monday that despite a decline in sales, net profit had risen sharply to A$56.8 million...
Beghin-Say talks go on, and on
31-Oct-2002 - Italian energy company Edison and the French consortium bidding to buy its majority stake in sugar maker Beghin-Say said on Wednesday that the price was...
Manufacturers and retailers in syncronicity
31-Oct-2002 - As the internet slowly carves a place in the day to day running of food businesses, B2B consumer-packaged goods marketplace Transora, one of the ongoing...
Sales steady for IFF
31-Oct-2002 - Flavour sales continued to decline in Europe for number one flavours and fragrances company, International Flavors & Fragrances, but despite this the overall picture for...
GM cotton approved as food source
30-Oct-2002 - The Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) announced potential changes to the Food Standards Code involving a new wine production standard and the approval of...
Sugar bail-out less than sweet
30-Oct-2002 - A federal government bail-out of the Australian sugar industry was under threat on Tuesday after business and opposition groups,in particular food manufacturers, objected to a...
Breakfast: the end of an era?
30-Oct-2002 - It is an undeniable truth of the western world that the days of 'going to work on an egg' are fast disappearing into the advertisement...
How powerful is the consumer?
30-Oct-2002 - When David Byrne, European Commissioner responsible for Health and Consumer Protection, issued a message of support this week to the Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD) ahead...
Irradiated food hits school menus
29-Oct-2002 - Europe remains cautious over the issue of irradiating food as the US makes moves to integrate this technology further into the food, and foodservice, industry....
A stake in health
29-Oct-2002 - Mergers and acquisitions in the food industry continue this week with acquisitive Canadian company Stake technology taking over US ingredients company Opta Food Ingredients at...
Ajinomoto expands pharma operations
29-Oct-2002 - Japanese seasoning maker Ajinomoto is to acquire Shimizu Pharmaceutical, an unlisted drugmaker based in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, to boost its pharmaceutical operations, according to...
'Egg'citement' in China
29-Oct-2002 - China's egg industry has won over the trust of European authorities on egg products who believe rosy market prospects could lie ahead, reports the Xinhua...
Soy disguised as meat
29-Oct-2002 - The food exhibition SIAL in Paris last week was a clear opportunity to witness current, and future, trends and innovations in the global food and...
FDF Director General joins food committee
28-Oct-2002 - UK industry body the Food and Drink Federation has announced that its Director General, Sylvia Jay, is to join a new, nine-strong body headed by...
Budapest cooks up the ingredients
28-Oct-2002 - The city of Budapest will once again host the Food Ingredients Central & Eastern Europe exhibition (FiCEE) in 2003. The exhibition will take place at...
Serbia: food pact marks progress
28-Oct-2002 - Serbia and Croatia last week that they would sign a trade pact for farm produce and food, in a move to connect the two economies...
EU enlargement breakthrough
25-Oct-2002 - European Union leaders claimed a breakthrough on Thursday on the path to expanding the bloc into eastern Europe after France and Germany reached a landmark...
Croda in focus
24-Oct-2002 - In a bid to improve its focus and accelerate growth, UK-based speciality chemical company Croda International announced this week that it has restructured its European...
High prices damage ADM earnings
24-Oct-2002 - Agribusiness giant Archer Daniels Midland said on Wednesday that quarterly earnings fell almost 18 per cent because of high commodity prices that cut into its...
Flavour formulation feeds TFF
24-Oct-2002 - Higher volume food and beverage flavour product sales to existing customers contributed to a net increase for the third quarter ended 30 September 2002 of...
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