News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
When trawling around the supermarket aisles it would appear that the average UK shopper is becoming increasingly patriotic. The patriotic shopper is more likely to be aged 65 or over and slotting into the financially better off AB socio-economic group.
Claims by Spanish hypermarket groups that new store restrictions are benefiting only supermarkets and not traditional retailers have been confirmed by the latest Nielsen data, which shows supermarkets taking market share from both their larger and...
The arbitration court in France has ruled that Casino did not act illegally in buying a stake in one-time purchasing partner Cora, and that it was in fact the latter chain which acted outside the law by quitting the Opera buying group.
EMP Industries, a leading designer and manufacturer of custom machinery, has launched a Package Testing System (PTS) primarily aimed at liquid packaging.
Decreasing meal frequency and caloric intake protects nerve cells from genetically induced damage, delays the onset of Huntington's disease-like symptoms in mice and prolongs the lives of affected rodents, according to investigators reporting on a new...
Dutch speciality chemicals company DSM continues on its steady path to growth with the announcement today that operating profit for 2002 reached €383 million, a 14 per cent rise on 2001, thanks in part to 6 per cent autonomous volume growth and...
The European Parliament yesterday voted with an overwhelming majority for a permanent ban on the use of the food additive E425, otherwise known as konjac, in jelly confectionery.