The French authorities have come up with a €70 million rescue
package for ailing wine producers, but as Kim Hunter Gordon and
Chris Jones report, they have once again failed to tackle the
principal problem - massive overproduction...
Sales for food enzymes crept up by a slight two per cent in 2004
for number one enzymes player Novozymes, but a boost in low carb
beverages continues to lift profit.
Britain's leading supermarket groups have been moving rapidly into
the convenience store sector in the last two years, seeing real
opportunities for growth by bringing their low price offer closer
to their customer base. Yet...
Sweden's Absolut vodka has consolidated its position as the world's
third-largest international spirit brand with a 5 per cent increase
in shipments in 2004 - buoyed in particular by an excellent
performance in its most...
Food technologist marks breakthrough in rice starch procurement,
replacing a 60-year-old method with a more 'efficient and
environmentally-friendly way' to separate a rice kernel's
tightly-bound portions of starch and...
The food industry should benefit from recent advances in tracking
the rice genome, with Chinese researchers this week revealing their
painstaking work could open up the way for improved strains in
wheat, corn, soy and rapeseed.
Current science finds no link between goat meat and meat product
consumption and variant Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease (vCJD). But a
group of experts calls for new research, to fully understand the
risk this meat may pose to the food...
Continuing moves into new segments of the confectionery market have
helped US gum maker Wrigley end 2004 with record sales and profits.
And the acquisition of Spain's Joyco, with strong market shares in
India and China, should...
Spearing the growing trans fat alternative market, Germany's Bayer
CropScience will link up with private agro firm Cargill to bring a
new speciality oil to the market. Lindsey Partos reports.
Trawling through the mounting investigations into the impact of
wine-drinking on heart health, Danish researchers confirm ongoing
findings that drinkers of wine benefit from its cardio-protective
effects, more so than those who drink...
Around one in ten supermarket bakery workers risk developing asthma
by breathing in dust from flour and bread mixes, according to a new
study which calls for greater awareness among retailers as the
number of in-store bakeries grows,...
Stricken Italian firm Parmalat, still being investigated for fraud,
has sold its loss-making North American Bakery Group to private
equity firm Catterton Partners, reports Chris Mercer.
