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Discover YASO – The Award-winning Breakthrough in Whole, Natural, Digestible Soya – at Hi Europe, Ni & NuW 2012

    Discover YASO – The Award-winning Breakthrough in Whole, Natural, Digestible Soya – at Hi Europe, Ni & NuW 2012

On 13-15 November 2012 Fitorex Ltd will be exhibiting at Hi Europe, Ni & NuW which will take place at Messe Frankfurt, Germany. Visitors to stand NB12 will be able

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Carbery Group Enters Brazilian Joint Venture

    Carbery Group Enters Brazilian Joint Venture

Carbery Group, the Irish dairy ingredients manufacturer, has announced the formation of a 50/50 whey processing joint venture with one of South America’s leading food companies BRF Brasil Foods. The

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Sugar and Retail Drive ABF to Record Profits

    Sugar and Retail Drive ABF to Record Profits

Driven by strong results from its sugar and retail divisions, Associated British Foods has reported a 17% rise in adjusted operating profit to exceed the one billion pound mark for

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CCE and ECO Plastics Launch New Education Centre

    CCE and ECO Plastics Launch New Education Centre

Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) has underlined its continued commitment to youth development with the opening of a brand new Education Centre at Continuum Recycling, the joint venture with ECO Plastics which

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Unilever Challenges UK Households to Waste Less and Save More

    Unilever Challenges UK Households to Waste Less and Save More

Unilever is launching a nationwide consumer challenge to help UK families lead more sustainable lifestyles and save money on household bills. Developed in partnership with insight and innovation consultancy The

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Bright Food Completes Weetabix Acquisition

    Bright Food Completes Weetabix Acquisition

Bright Food, one of China’s largest food groups, has completed its  acquisition of 60% of Weetabix Food Company from private equity firm Lion Capital for £720 million. The remaining 40% of

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Barry Callebaut to Build €12 Million Chocolate Factory

    Barry Callebaut to Build €12 Million Chocolate Factory

Barry Callebaut is to build a factory for chocolate and compounds in Eskişehir, Turkey. The new facility will serve as a basis to participate in the further growth potential of

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Catering to An Ageing Population

    Catering to An Ageing Population

The ageing global population, together with the increasing number of people making up the older age groups, represents both a challenge and an opportunity for the global food industry according

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Vince Cable Visits Coca-Cola Enterprises in Wakefield

    Vince Cable Visits Coca-Cola Enterprises in Wakefield

Coca-Cola Enterprises recently welcomed Vince Cable to its manufacturing facility in Wakefield, allowing the UK Business Secretary to witness first-hand the work being carried out at Europe’s largest soft drinks

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Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences Opens

    Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences Opens

Nestlé has officially opened the Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences (NIHS) on the EPFL campus in Lausanne, Switzerland. NIHS research aims to provide the scientific rationale for targeted nutritional medical

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Britain’s Pub Closure Rate Soars by 50%

    Britain’s Pub Closure Rate Soars by 50%

CAMRA, the Campaign for Real Ale, has revealed how Britain’s pub closure rate has increased to 18 a week, with over 450 pubs across the country having been lost since

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OEE Systems From London Electronics

London Electronics makes flexible and easy to use production monitoring systems, designed to help you get the best out of your plant and teams. You can see live data for

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Coca-Cola to Invest $300 Million in Vietnam

    Coca-Cola to Invest $300 Million in Vietnam

The Coca-Cola Company is to make a new system investment of $300 million over the next three years in Vietnam to further capture growth opportunities in one of the world’s

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Premier Foods to Sell Branston Pickles and Sauces Business

    Premier Foods to Sell Branston Pickles and Sauces Business

Premier Foods has agreed to sell its sweet pickles and table sauces business to Mizkan of Japan for a cash consideration of £92.5 million. Once the disposal is completed, Premier

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Link Design – The Modelmaker

Link Design provides bespoke prototypes to meet clients’ needs and create a uniquely tailored service Let’s face it, most of, if not all of the things we use and consume

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What is the Value in Product Integrity?

By Stephen Jacobs, Global Product Manager, Fruit and Vegetables, Bühler.   As consumers and retailers continue to demand uniformity in food products and health and safety regulations become increasingly stringent,

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PepsiCo and Tingyi Open New Beverage Plant in China

    PepsiCo and Tingyi Open New Beverage Plant in China

PepsiCo and Tingyi, one of the leading food and beverage companies inChina, have official opened a new beverage manufacturing plant in Zhengzhou, China. The Zhengzhou PepsiCo Beverages facility is the

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Demand For in Process Contaminant Removal is Rising Significantly

By Hitesh Hirani,Group Technical Director of Lock Inspection   With food and pharmaceutical manufacturers looking to extract every ounce of value from their assets, the potential benefits to be accrued

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Grant Thornton Report Says Irish Food Industry Needs to Extend Sustainability Beyond ‘Greenness’

    Grant Thornton Report Says Irish Food Industry Needs to Extend Sustainability Beyond ‘Greenness’

Research just published by Grant Thornton highlights that the Irish food and beverage sector needs to look beyond the ‘greenness’ of food production. Sustainability is also about the financial stability

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Pernod Ricard to Build New Scotch Whisky Distillery

    Pernod Ricard to Build New Scotch Whisky Distillery

Chivas Brothers, the Scotch whisky and premium gin business of Pernod Ricard, intends to build a new malt whisky distillery and has begun the planning process for a site in

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Glanbia Wins ‘Best in Relative Carbon Reduction 2011-12’ at the International Carbon Trust Standard Bearers Conference

    Glanbia Wins ‘Best in Relative Carbon Reduction 2011-12’ at the International Carbon Trust Standard Bearers Conference

Glanbia Dairy Ingredients Ireland has been presented with the global award for ‘Best in Relative Carbon Reduction (2011-12)’ at the annual Carbon Trust Standard Bearers Conference in London. The awards

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Nestlé Cocoa Plan Delivers More Sustainable Cocoa

    Nestlé Cocoa Plan Delivers More Sustainable Cocoa

The Nestlé Cocoa Plan, which was scaled up this year to increase the sustainable supply of quality cocoa and the number of cocoa farmers and their communities who benefit from

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Pukka Pouches From National Flexible

The challenge of working with an iconic brand on a new product project places a large amount of responsibility with

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C&C Group to Acquire US Cider Marker For $305 Million

  C&C Group to Acquire US Cider Marker For $305 Million

C&C Group, the Irish and UK branded cider and beer producer, is acquiring the Vermont Hard Cider Company, an independent,

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Imported Liquid Egg Salmonella Outbreak in UK

  Imported Liquid Egg Salmonella Outbreak in UK

British Lion egg processors are urging UK food manufacturers and retailers to reconsider their purchasing policies following another outbreak of

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IFF to Invest Over $50 Million in Flavors Creative and Manufacturing Facility in Turkey

  IFF to Invest Over $50 Million in Flavors Creative and Manufacturing Facility in Turkey

International Flavors & Fragrances plans to invest over $50 million in its existing flavors facility in Gebze, Turkey over the

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Glanbia Enters into a New Dairy Processing Joint Venture With Co-operative Owners

  Glanbia Enters into a New Dairy Processing Joint Venture With Co-operative Owners

Glanbia, the global nutritional solutions and cheese group, has signed contracts with its majority shareholder, Glanbia Co-operative Society, to enter

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PepsiCo and Suntory to Form New Strategic Beverage Alliance

  PepsiCo and Suntory to Form New Strategic Beverage Alliance

PepsiCo and Suntory of Japan have agreed to form a strategic alliance in Vietnam. Suntory will acquire a 51% stake

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Aldi Achieves Record Growth in Ireland

  Aldi Achieves Record Growth in Ireland

The latest Irish supermarket share figures from Kantar Worldpanel in Ireland, for the 12 weeks ending 30 September 2012, show

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Global Consumer Trends and Key Consumer Targets in Alcoholic Beverages

  Global Consumer Trends and Key Consumer Targets in Alcoholic Beverages

Consumers who have historically been frequent beer drinkers are broadening their drinks repertoires, according to Canadean. Over the next five

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UK Meat-free and Free-from Food Sales Set to Top £1 Billion

  UK Meat-free and Free-from Food Sales Set to Top £1 Billion

Proving it is not a fad, the meat-free and free-from foods market in the UK has experienced robust growth since

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ADM and Wilmar Complete European Vegetable Oil Partnership

  ADM and Wilmar Complete European Vegetable Oil Partnership

Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) and Wilmar International, Asia’s leading agribusiness group, have completed regulatory approvals for their partnerships in

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Nestlé Strengthens R&D Capability in China

  Nestlé Strengthens R&D Capability in China

Nestlé will double the number of research and development (R&D) units it has in China to further its understanding of

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McCain Foods Acquiring PinguinLutosa’s Potato Division

  McCain Foods Acquiring PinguinLutosa’s Potato Division

McCain Foods is purchasing PinguinLutosa Food Group’s Lutosa potato division, which has an enterprise value of Eur225 million and encompasses

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Product Recall Cuts Britvic’s Revenue by 2%

  Product Recall Cuts Britvic’s Revenue by 2%

Britvic, the UK and international soft drinks producer, has reported a 2.6% decline in revenue to £1.256 billion for the

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Six EU Member States Exceed Their Milk Quota

  Six EU Member States Exceed Their Milk Quota

Six Member States – Austria, Ireland, the Netherlands, Germany, Cyprus and Luxembourg – exceeded their milk quotas in 2011/2012, triggering

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Industry Manifesto Launched at FoodDrinkEurope’s 30th Anniversary Congress

  Industry Manifesto Launched at FoodDrinkEurope’s 30th Anniversary Congress

At the close of its 30th anniversary Congress, FoodDrinkEurope launched an Industry Manifesto providing a framework for future action forEurope’s

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Pearlfisher Creates New Identity and Packaging For Simply Sausages From Cranswick

Pearlfisher has created the new identity and designed the packaging and tone of voice for Simply Sausages from Cranswick. The

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Energy and Media Efficiency in the Beverage Industry – The EME Standard

By Dr Christoph Reichel, Plant Engineering, Measuring Systems at TUV SUD Industrie Service   Manufacturers and operators of machinery and

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Emmi Acquires Stake in German Organic Dairy Company

  Emmi Acquires Stake in German Organic Dairy Company

Swiss dairy group Emmi, through its organic products subsidiary Molkerei Biedermann, is entering into a strategic partnership with German organic

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‘Driving Sustainable Economic Recovery’ – FoodDrinkEurope Examines Global Megatrends

  ‘Driving Sustainable Economic Recovery’ – FoodDrinkEurope Examines Global Megatrends

Europe’s food and drink industry needs to focus on innovation and boosting its competitive advantage while ensuring that science remains

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UK Online Food and Grocery to be Worth £11 Billion in 5 Years

  UK Online Food and Grocery to be Worth £11 Billion in 5 Years

The UK online food and grocery market is set to be worth £11.1 billion by 2017, almost double its current value

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Clegg Food Projects is on a Roll With New Greggs Extension

  Clegg Food Projects is on a Roll With New Greggs Extension

Clegg Food Project’s has completed an extension to a Greggs bakery to give greater capacity to the high street bakers

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United Kingdom Cider Market Insights

  United Kingdom Cider Market Insights

The exceptionally cool and wet weather in Quarter 3 will have repercussions on the UK cider market, according to Canadean.

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Refrigeration is Most Significant Invention in the History of Food and Drink

  Refrigeration is Most Significant Invention in the History of Food and Drink

The Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of science, has named the fridge, pasteurised milk, and the tin can as

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New Courtauld Figures Show UK Grocery Sector on Track

  New Courtauld Figures Show UK Grocery Sector on Track

The latest results of the Courtauld Commitment Phase 2 from WRAP, show significant progress by grocery sector signatories against its

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Unilever Seeks Help With New Technical Challenges to Support Sustainable Growth

  Unilever Seeks Help With New Technical Challenges to Support Sustainable Growth

Unilever, one of the world’s largest consumer goods manufacturers, has released a new set of challenges to the world’s innovation

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Pacepacker Wins Sixth Prestigious Industry Award in 18 months

  Pacepacker Wins Sixth Prestigious Industry Award in 18 months

Pacepacker Services has rounded off a triumphant 18 months by scooping its sixth prestigious industry award for the company’s exporting

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Seaweed – An Alternative Protein Source

  Seaweed – An Alternative Protein Source

Researchers at Teagasc ((the Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority) are looking to seaweed for proteins with health benefits for

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Cereal Partners Worldwide to Reduce Sugar Content of Brands

  Cereal Partners Worldwide to Reduce Sugar Content of Brands

Cereal Partners Worldwide (CPW), Nestlé’s 50/50 joint venture with General Mills, has committed to reducing the sugar content of 20

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New Career Kick-start Fund For Female Staff

  New Career Kick-start Fund For Female Staff

New government funding toward training designed to improve the career prospects of women employees is now available to food and

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Cargill’s New Managing Director Cocoa Focuses on Innovation and Customer Service

  Cargill’s New Managing Director Cocoa Focuses on Innovation and Customer Service

Philippe Huet (pictured) has been appointed as the new Managing Director Cocoa for Cargill’s cocoa & chocolate business. He takes over

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SternMaid Expands its Wittenburg Site

  SternMaid Expands its Wittenburg Site

SternMaid, the German company specialising in customised solutions for blending, processing and filling powdered foods, food supplements and active pharmaceutical

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Barilla Opens New €40 Million Pasta Sauce Factory

  Barilla Opens New €40 Million Pasta Sauce Factory

Italian food group Barilla has opened a new pasta sauce production facility in Rubbiano di Solignano, near Parma, following investment

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