News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
Women are worth €1,400 billion, a figure set to swell to €2,000 billion by 2008. Long acknowledged as a powerful consumer force, a new study from Datamonitor suggests that the modern perception of women provides new growth opportunities for food...
Long term sustainable growth is the key aim for a far-reaching development process at Swedish fats and oils company Karlshamns, the company confirmed recently when it announced its first half results for 2002. An increasingly competitive European...
Calcium could help the body fight E coli, the bacteria often responsible for traveller's diarrhea, and a cause of illness in children and the elderly in developing countries, suggests new research from the Netherlands.
As governments, consumer groups and scientists all voice as one the dangers of high sugar diets, encouraging us to cut the sugar consumption, opportunities for growth in the sugar-free market continue to multiply for food manufacturers.
An industry tie-up to find cheaper production methods for flavours is already bearing fruit as Swiss flavours giant Givaudan announces 'key milestone' in research on gene pathways.
A report carried out at the request of the Commission's Enterprise DG has concluded that innovation capabilities in the candidate countries still lag behind those within the 15 current Member States, report CORDIS.
"We want to make the Doha Development Agenda a success." For Agriculture European Commissioner Franz Fischler this is Europe's number one objective for the upcoming WTO trade talks in Mexico next week. And to achieve this aim, the EU is 'willing to...
The sale of US Foodservice - suggested as a possible means of recovering some of its lost reputation - has been dismissed by Ahold's new chief executive Anders Moberg. But what exactly he plans to do to redress the comapny is also still far from clear.