FoE tackles retailers over fruit supplies
Friends of the Earth (FoE), the perennial thorn in the side of the leading British supermarket groups, has criticised the two biggest retailers, Tesco and Asda, over their fruit supply contracts.
Archives for November 25, 2003
More strong growth from Tesco
Britain's biggest supermarket group Tesco has today reported third quarter sales growth of 17.5 per cent, figures which beat all analysts' forecasts and showed once again the ever widening gulf between Tesco and rivals such as Sainsbury and Safeway.
Facing up to competitive times, Ingredia-Rhodia call the double cone
When onlookers of the food ingredients industry claim that consolidation will be a key trend in coming years they are generally referring to mergers and acquisitions. But could it be that consolidation in this increasingly competitive marketplace...
Safety in trucks
eFoodSafety.com has entered the first phase of a systematic plan to roll-out multiple company divisions, beginning with a truck sanitising division. The group says that this division is already well funded, which means that it is already in a good...
Healthy bone supplement as good as the real thing
A clinical study carried out in the Netherlands has demonstrated identical absorption from an extract of the soyfood natto as in its traditional form.
Q4 boosts Chr Hansen full year results
A sluggish market hit by falling exchange rates, unrest in the Middle East and SARS in Asia all contributed to a drab organic revenue of 2 per cent for the year, Danish ingredients company Chr. Hansen reported this week. But the tide could be turning...
Processing potassium
Balchem Encapsulates used the FiE exhibition in Frankfurt last week as a platform to launch three microencapsulated forms of potassium for the food and supplement markets to combat processing challenges, the company claimed.
Ahold chief's bonus package revealed
Shareholders in Ahold, the troubled Dutch retailer, will tomorrow have the chance to debate the proposed bonus package of the company's new CEO Anders Moberg - a package which almost scuppered Moberg's appointment at an earlier shareholders' meeting.
Solutions to health pressures
A researcher in Guatemala has been awarded €120, 000 for his work on finding solutions to the public health problems caused by malnutrition.
Food safety for thought
US agriculture secretary Ann Veneman announced yesterday that the rate of Salmonella in raw meat and poultry has dropped by 66 per cent over the past six years and by 16 per cent compared with 2002. She claims that some of the credit should go to the...