Two major poultry businesses have agreed to work together in a new joint venture to provide chicken, turkey and duck to the UK retail and foodservice market.
Bowman Ingredients is to make a multi-million pound investment in what it claims is the UK’s first dedicated production facility for gluten-free crumb products.
26-year food ingredients veteran Olivier Rigaud is the new CEO of French herbal extracts leader Naturex, moving from tate & Lyle, where he has been the chair of Specialty Food Ingredients since 2010.
Danish Crown has announced the new chief executive of its beef operations, following the announcement that the company’s ‘Mr Beef’, Lorenz Hansen, was stepping down from the role.
Copersucar and Cargill have announced an agreement to combine their global sugar trading activities into a new joint venture that will produce, commercialise and trade raw and white sugar.
Global burger giant McDonald’s has reported a small increase in profit for the fourth quarter of 2012, boosted by the recovery of US sales in December.
French industrial business Groupe Caravelle has said it intends to acquire an equity stake in Naturex, following Spanish group Natraceutical’s sale of its 15.35% stake in the company earlier this month.
Ecolab has acquired a Mexico-based manufacturer and provider of cleaning, sanitizing and water treatment products and services to strengthen its position in Latin America.
Naturex has just received novel foods approval in China for its flavour masking system, Talin. President and chief executive of the botanicals group, Jacques Dikansky, revealed the news and discussed the integration of Burgundy when we caught up with...
Dupont, which earlier in the year warned that its May $6.49bn acquisition of Danisco would dent its yearly profits, has defied expectations in second quarter results published today.
Naturex will expand again in 2011 with several “€5-20m” targets, 1.5 years after completing the €110m integration of Spanish supplier Natraceutical that made the French botanical extracts supplier the biggest in the world.
Naturex president and chief executive officer, Jacques Dikansky, tells Shane Starling why in August the French botanicals giant bought Spanish supplier, Natraceutical Group, to double its size for the third time since 2002.
Gen-Probe and 3M have teamed up to develop rapid molecular tests
food processors can use to ensure the safety of their products, the
two companies announced this month.
Under a new partnership and license and supply agreement,
BioControl has received the right to specific probe sequences from
Epoch Biosciences for use in the field of food safety testing.
Competition in the biogum sector is set to hot up with the news
today that US company CP Kelco is looking to boost production
capabilities to reinforce its position in the biogums marketplace.
A brand new ingredients company is to hit the marketplace. Backed
by US soybean giant Bunge and ingredients company DuPont Protein
Technologies, Solae, touting itself as 'one of the world's
premier developers and marketers...
Ingredients company RFI Ingredients, a supplier of natural
ingredients for the food and functional food industries, has signed
a merger agreement, effective from 1 November, with US nutritional
blends company Nat-Trop. The move looks...
Mergers and acquisitions in the food industry continue this week
with acquisitive Canadian company Stake technology taking over US
ingredients company Opta Food Ingredients at the price of €28m. The
move marks a bid by Stake to build...
US company Opta Food Ingredients, a developer and manufacturer of
food ingredients, this week reported revenue growth to $7.4 million
(€7.2m) for the second quarter ended 30 June 2002, compared with
$7.0 million for the second quarter...
Mondi Packaging UK's Great Yarmouth site has been awarded Silver in
the Anglo American CEO competition for outstanding performance in
occupational safety.
Microalgae company Martek Biosciences announced this week that it
has agreed to acquire OmegaTech, a US DHA producer located in
Colorado. The acquisition is expected to close within four to six
weeks
Under the theme, 'There's a new Cargill taking shape,' Cargill
recently announced a new brand strategy that focuses on helping
farm and food customers succeed, the company claimed. A new
corporate identity, or logo,...
RFM Corp, the Philippines' second largest food firm, confirmed on
Monday it was in preliminary talks to sell its meat processing unit
Swift Foods to food and beer giant San Miguel.
Opta Food Ingredients today announced a restructuring program that
is designed to reduce the company's overall cost structure by
approximately $1 million annually.
US almond co-operative Blue Diamond Growers is to issue cheques
totalling $40 million to its nearly four thousand member growers on
January 4, 2002, the group announced this week.
H.J. Heinz Co. announced on June 6 that it would acquire the pasta
sauce, dry bouillon and soup businesses from Borden Foods
Corporation, the American...
Foster's chief executive officer Ted Kunkel said the company was
looking at paying "reasonable prices" for bolt on acquisitions, and
moving into the...
International Flavor & Fragrances Inc. provided yesterday an
update regarding its integration of Bush Boake Allen and the
progress of its reorganisation...
