News & Analysis on Food & Beverage Development & Technology
Pernod Ricard has finalized the €103m sale of Danish akvavit brands Aalborg and Brøndums to Norway’s largest spirits producer Arcus-Gruppen following regulatory approval, and reaffirmed its focus on 14 international 'priority brands'.
Poland has become the eighth European country to ban the cultivation of genetically modified (GM) crops approved by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) as safe for cultivation, after an EU approval deadline passed this week.
Celebrity chefs and other leading opinion-formers are poisoning the debate about genetically modified (GM) food, claims environmentalist and author Mark Lynas.
The global economy is set to improve in 2013 – but Europe will continue to struggle, according to analysis from Euromonitor International.
Food and beverage companies need to ‘redefine’ the concept of age in 2013 to seize specific growth opportunities presented by older consumers, according to Leatherhead Food Research.
Reading Scientific Services Ltd (RSSL) has invested in its microscopy facilities to introduce a service for identifying foreign bodies in food.
Targeting taste sensors in the gut could offer the food industry with a ‘new road’ to battling obesity, say researchers.
The food and beverage manufacturing sector accounted for 15.4% of very large deals in the UK last year, making it more active than any other sector, according to information services company Experian.
Researchers are investigating the commercial potential of a process for extracting nutritional ingredients from asparagus waste for use in functional food products.
UK charity Sustain aims to launch a campaign later this year designed to boost the amount of food waste being used for animal feed.
Offloading Skippy peanut butter - which still generates the majority of its $370m annual sales in the mature US market - will continue to skew Unilever’s portfolio towards faster-growing emerging markets, says one industry analyst.