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Ahold buys US food distributor
12-Sep-2002 - Dutch retailer Royal Ahold said on Thursday that its US Foodservice subsidiary would acquire certain assets of US distributor Lady Baltimore Foods for an undisclosed...
Nestlé Malaysia approves food unit sales
11-Sep-2002 - As expected, shareholders of food manufacturer Nestle (Malaysia). On Wednesday approved the sale of four units of the company and the payout of the proceeds...
Gelatine alternatives from Cerestar
11-Sep-2002 - Starch derivatives company Cerestar, recently acquired by US agribusiness Cargill, claims this week that it has met the challenge to develop a gum type that...
Shopping continues for DSM
11-Sep-2002 - Purchases and new production facilities have so far marked the healthy growth of Dutch life science company DSM in 2002. This week the company announced...
Merrill downgrades Hershey
10-Sep-2002 - Confectionery maker Hershey Foods on Monday was downgraded to "neutral" from "buy" by Merrill Lynch, which cited concern that a sale of the company could...
The fruit of organics
10-Sep-2002 - Organic fruit sales continue to rise in France as consumer demand for organic fresh produce remains buoyant, write market analysts Organic Monitor this week. In...
Corn sweetener purchase cleared
09-Sep-2002 - Archer Daniels Midland, the leading US ethanol producer, on Friday won conditional approval from US antitrust authorities to acquire privately owned Minnesota Corn Processors LLC,...
Hershey: Cadbury-Nestlé bid likely?
09-Sep-2002 - Potential buyers for US confectionery giant Hershey are close to putting their bids on the table, despite ongoing legal hitches, sources familiar with the situation...
Shares move for Associated British Foods subsidiary
09-Sep-2002 - UK food, ingredients and retail group Associated British Foods (ABF) announced on Friday that the minority shareholders of its Australian bakery subsidiary, George Weston Foods...
Fatty acid operation sold by Lonza
09-Sep-2002 - Swiss life science company Lonza has agreed to sell its fatty acid and glycerine operation located in Painesville, Ohio, USA to oleochemical producers Twin Rivers...
Board resigns over banned food additive
06-Sep-2002 - All members of the board of Japanese company Duskin have tended letters of resignation over the use of a banned additive in food sold at...
Functional food ingredients buy dietary supplements
06-Sep-2002 - US Nutraceuticals, a manufacturer of supercritical fluid extracts for the dietary supplement, nutraceutical and functional food industries, has acquired the astaxanthin business of La Haye...
Name change for ingredients division
05-Sep-2002 - Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), a leading soybean processor, announced this week that as from Tuesday 2 September its subsidiary Agri-Sales, part of ADM Specialty Ingredients...
Green light for Cereol purchase
05-Sep-2002 - Regulatory bodies in the US have given US oil processor Bunge the go ahead to continue with its proposed acquisition of a 55 per cent...
Hershey, and the story goes on...
05-Sep-2002 - Shares in food giant Nestle jumped 2.8 per cent on Wednesday as investors bet a US court would intervene in the sale of Hershey Foods,...
Sweet, but not tempting enough
05-Sep-2002 - Carbohydrate ingredients company Tate & Lyle on Wednesday announced that despite expressions of interest from a number of parties and several weeks of detailed negotiations,...
Not so sweet chocolate
04-Sep-2002 - The blockbuster potential sale of Hershey Foods spilled out into a Pennsylvania court on Tuesday, with opponents warning of huge layoffs if the sale goes...
Merry sales for Kerry
03-Sep-2002 - Irish company Kerry, a leading ingredients, flavours, and consumer foods group, on Tuesday reported a 34.3 per cent lift in sales for the first half...
Hershey attempt to delay sale
03-Sep-2002 - Food giant Nestle said on Monday that a closely watched court hearing on delaying the planned sale of US chocolate maker Hershey is unlikely to...
EU food retail figures drop
03-Sep-2002 - In June 2002, as compared to June 2001, the volume of retail trade in the euro-zone decreased by 0.9 per cent but increased by 0.4...
Sales surge for Eurofins
03-Sep-2002 - Eurofins, a French company that supplies bioanalytical support services to the food industry, witnessed a 23 per cent leap in sales for the second quarter...
Nippon Meat fights back
02-Sep-2002 - Shares in Nippon Meat Packers soared on Monday after Japan's farm ministry said the troubled meat processor and its subsidiaries would be allowed to resume...
Support for sugar industry
02-Sep-2002 - The Australian federal government is to bailout the struggling sugar industry in order to prop up towns along the Queensland and northern NSW coast, Trade...
Ajinomoto invests in lysine
02-Sep-2002 - Japanese seasoning producer Ajinomoto said on Monday that it is to double its Brazilian unit's annual production of amino acid-based Lysine for animal feed products...
How much for Hershey?
02-Sep-2002 - Shares of Nestlé, the world's biggest food company, rebounded sharply yesterday as the company indicated it was not prepared to pay more than $12bn (€12.2bn)...
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