After the merger of Béghin-Say with the sugar and agro-industrial
activities of Eridania in 1992, the Eridania Béghin-Say group, a
leader in the agro-industrial...
Coca-Cola, the American soft drink company, announced on May 28th
that it is withdrawing 700,000 bottles of Fanta-Pomelo, a
grapefruit flavoured soda...
Indian company B M Thapar group is to liquidate its starch business
Bharat Starch, Indian paper the Economic Times reports. This
follows the company's...
Struggling British retailer Marks and Spencer Plc is considering a
shake-up of its food activities, one of the more stable areas of
its business, in a...
In a bid to stop "genetically engineered food contamination"
Greenpeace activists chained themselves to the entrance of a Nestle
factory in Hong Kong...
Hypermarkets in Thailand are taking the place of supermarkets,
reports the Bangkok Post. According to a survey, "Thailand's
Shopping Habits", released...
Two American start-up foodservice industry Internet sites, eFS
Network and Maverick Xchange, announced on May 22nd they will merge
to form a business-to-business...
A staggering 63 per cent of Americans will choose to drink bottled
water this summer, according to a recently published survey for the
International Bottled...
Avebe, the Dutch starch producer, will join Pilao Quimica Ltda
concern, the Brazilian producer of tapioca-based starch and
derivatives, in a joint venture.
US soft drinks giant Coca-Cola Co. is entering the growing market
for functional beverage products containing dietary supplement
ingredients such as...
The French beverage group Pernod Ricard will acquire Polmos Poznan,
the producer of Wyborowa, Poland's best-known vodka brand, reports
the Financial...
The French coop group Union SDA acquired two sugar
refineries/distilleries Univalem and Gasa , located in the
northwest part of Brazil. These acquisitions...
Coca-Cola, the American beverage company, announced on Friday it
had bought Mad River Traders, a maker of tea, juice and soft
drinks, based in Connecticut,...
After a call for a nationwide boycott of its products, French food
company Danone has decided to resume production at itsbiscuit
factory in the western...
Japanese snack food company Terra Harvest Foods is to build a $10
million plant in Melbourne, Australia creating 220 new jobs in the
food manufacturing...
The Anglo-Dutch consumer goods company Unilever confirmed at its
annual general meeting on May 9 that it would close a total of 100
sites as it continues...
Cadbury Schweppes, the British confectionery and soft drinks group,
is in talks on forming an alliance with La Casera, the Spanish soda
water producer,...
Novartis, the Swiss drugs company, said on Monday it has bought 20
per centof the voting shares in Roche, its competitor, for
SFr4.83bn ($2.8bn) cash,...
New-York based International Flavors & Fragrances Inc., a
leading producer of flavours and fragrances, reported this week a
54 per cent drop in first-quarter...
A functional merger may occur between the meat businesses of
Philippine food and beverage group San Miguel Corp. and Pure Foods
Corp., the company about...
Anglo-Dutch food giant Unilever plans to lose 8,000 more jobs and
close 30 plants as it integrates the recently acquired Bestfoods
into its operations,...
The Fruit Systems Business Line of Degussa Flavors & Fruit
Systems (formerly SKW Nature Products) on Monday announced the
launch of Sweet Ovations, the...
US consumer food giant H.J. Heinz Co. and US Beech-Nut Nutrition
Corporation called off their proposed $185 million merger on Friday
after an appeals...
French cheese group, Fromageries Bel, last week announced a net
profit of E69m for the financial year 2000, representing an
increase of 7.8 per cent....
US flavour specialists Senomyx, Inc.,and US soups giant Campbell
Soup Company announced this week a collaborative research and
license agreement to discover...
As a result of the food crises menacing Europe the year 2000 was
undeniably a difficult one for the French food industry. However
the industry "resisted...
Danish food, sugar and packaging group Danisco said on Thursday it
acquired U.S. Florida Flavors, a leading manufacturer of fruit
flavours for the juice...
The Hungarian Government is pushing for a full lifting of the ban
on meat and food product shipments to Russia, according to Péter
Balás, Deputy State...
Chiquita, the US banana producer, reported yesterday a 89 per cent
drop in first quarter net income, as it struggles to avoid
bankruptcy. The world's...
US fast food giant McDonald's warned on Thursday that fears over
the safety of European beef, which dragged first quarter profit
down 16 per cent, would...