Private label goes from strength to strength
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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 to see Newcastle...
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.
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 a supplier...
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 May 2003.
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 target for one of...
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.
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, is focusing on the connection...