Bakery firm Entenmann's is expanding into the UK frozen dessert
category with a range of serve-from-the-freezer products. The move
is part of the brand's bid to become a major player across all
ambient, chilled and frozen...
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 for natural and
organic products. A look at the Mintel Global...
Ter Beke, the Belgian ready meals and processed meat producer, has signed a letter of intent to buy the ready meals arm of French group Agis for an undisclosed sum.
Consumed for nearly 2000 years, noodles today bear little relation
to their Chinese and Japanese ancestors. Nowhere is this more
evident than in the unrelenting growth of the instant noodle
market. UK starch specialist National Starch...
Fairtrade mangoes from Burkina Faso, Mexico and Equador have been
given a major distribution boost in the UK this week, with the
announcement that the two leading supermarket groups, Tesco and
Sainsbury's, are to add them to...
Longer working hours, higher incomes and the demand for convenience
and variety are among the key growth drivers for ready meals,
according to a recent report from market analysts
Euromonitor.
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, confirms a new study from
Frost & Sullivan.
JM Canty has launched its Flowcell system which analyses liquids,
slurries for food and beverage applications using vision technology
to provide a comprehensive inspection and analysis tool.
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 Geneva with representatives of
some 30 food, beverage and producer associations.
The intricacies of phosphatidylserine (PS) are explained in a new
website for the food and health industry launched by Degussa
BioActives, the nutritional ingredient business unit of Degussa.
Mettler Toledo, providers of safety and compliance systems for food
and beverage processing, has supplied Italian pasta and bakery
producer Barilla with a dosing, sanitising and weighing system for
one of its primary production facilities.
Taste, texture, and stability in confectionery fillings can all be
achieved with a new range of filling fats from Loders Croklaan, the
Dutch-based company recently spun-off by Anglo-Dutch giant
Unilever.
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 lysine plant will be
shutdown at the beginning of August for up to 3...
The world's top cocoa processor, Swiss-based Barry Callebaut, said
on Tuesday that it had suspended efforts to take full control of
chocolate maker Stollwerck after minority shareholders in the
German firm filed a lawsuit against...
Low-saturated fat foods, enhanced flavours, foods without allergens
- all this is possible without any tampering of DNA material. US
company Anawah has received several million dollars to support
their work that combines molecular...
Swiss supplier of fragrance ingredients Givaudan has decided to
start a new share buy back programme of up to 800,000 registered
shares - representing 10 per cent of the share capital, announced
the board of directors this week.
Foss has developed a new system that allows for the rapid testing
of mould and yeast in baked products. The new combined test for
mould and yeast complements existing MicroFoss tests for
enterobacteriaceae, coliform, generic E.coli...
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 DHA/ARA in novel foods, paving the way for a range
of foodstuffs fortified with these...
The Chinese herb gastrodine is at the centre of new findings that
suggest it could improve memory, orientation and language in people
who have mild to moderate vascular dementia as the result of a
stroke.
Carrefour has fought off the increasing challenge from Metro and
Tesco to maintain its leadership of the European grocery reatil
market in 2002. Rewe, Wal-Mart and discount chains Aldi and Lidl
have all strengthened their positions,...
British tourists and expats on the Spanish island of Tenerife will
soon be able to find that increasingly British dish - curry - on
supermarket shelves there. Bombay Bangers is to begin exporting its
range of Indian convenience foods...
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 favourable perception of
polyunsaturated 'good' fats...
The world wide web is now home to the results of twenty years of
experiments into the behaviour of bacteria in foods with the launch
this week of a free common database.
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 DHA/ARA in novel foods, paving the way for a range
of foodstuffs fortified with these...
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 Foods and the Hain
Celestial group, the US natural foods company.
Can it be true ? Are the British - the nation of tea-lovers -
really turning down a cup of tea in favour of alternative beverages
? According to a new report from market analysts Datamonitor,
although the average Brit sips their way...
Genetic ID's new Quick-Check allergen test series is capable of
detecting the presence of as little as one or two allergen
marker-molecules within the DNA found in a food sample.
The UK is facing an obesity epidemic that could ultimately lead to
a dramatic increase in the number of cases of diabetes, claim UK
scientists. Educating the population about lifestyle changes could
be the key to combat the threat,...
The 'fat cat' attitude of the UK's leading supermarket chain Tesco
has been criticised once again by Friends of the Earth, which
claimed that the chain had grown at the expense of both the
environment and the UK farming...
A global agreement to protect biodiversity and human health moved
one step further on Friday when Environment Ministers in the EU
formally adopted the regulation on the trans-boundary movements of
genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
Fears that more than half the Russian quotas on meat imports would stay unallotted have proved to be unfounded, according to consultancy firm Market Advice.
The share of private label products on supermarket shelves around
the world continues to grow, as visitors to last month's World of
Private Label exhibition discovered.
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 direction for ice cream flavours with Scottish Courage
announcing that the consumer can expect...
The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) announced this week that new
regulations giving a two-year temporary national authorisation to
market a new sweetener - 'salt of aspartame-acesulfame' - have come
into force as of the 27...
After a tough year in 2001, the French food industry returned to
growth last year, with sales up 2.1 per cent and a 3.8 per cent
improvement in the balance of trade. But the recovery is still
fragile, warns industry association ANIA.
Diet, and specifically the type and amount of lipids (fats)
consumed, may have a role in the development of Alzheimer's
disease. An EU-funded research project called 'LIPIDIET', with
researchers from seven countries,...
After fighting off two hostile bids, including one which would have
seen 171 of its stores pass into the hands of rival Sainsbury, the
future of UK retailer Somerfield looks more stable. But the company
is likely to remain a takeover...
German retail group Kaufland is to buy 35 hypermarkets trading
under the Familia fascia from compatriot group Bremke &
Hoerster. The future of the latter's supermarket operations will be
decided soon.
In our second flavour news of the day, Danish ingredients giant
Danisco reports on the two new flavour concepts it developed for
the Specialty Coffee Association of America's (SCAA) annual
conference in April this year.
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, a subsidiary of agri-giant
Cargill, and 83 partners - has formed...
Air Products has announced a global re-branding strategy which aims to make it easier to recognise its range of products and services for safety and quality within the food and beverages industry.
The smallest rice chromosome has nearly twice as many predicted
genes as the draft DNA sequence had indicated, claims a rice genome
sequencing team in the US.
The Belgian food company Orafti and its BENEO® brand will be
applied to three new products. Orafi's BENEO® Programme indicates
that products contain...
Despite commitments to reduce the salt in processed food,
manufacturers continue to receive criticism over the issue with the
UK Food Standard Agency highlighting this week high levels of salt
in ready meals.
Rewe, the German retail and wholesale operator, has acquired its
Swiss counterpart Bon appétit, a move which will help Rewe
consolidate its position as the number three food retailer in
Europe.
As consumer groups in Europe and the US call on food manufacturers
to cut the quantity of trans fats in food products, Swedish
vegetable oils supplier Karlshamns has come up with a cocoa butter
replacer with a low trans fatty acid...
