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Clegg Food Projects Commences 19th Project With Greggs

    Clegg Food Projects Commences 19th Project With Greggs

Clegg Food Projects is building on its relationship with Greggs with the start of its 19th project for the UK’s leading bakery food-on-the-go retailer. Having worked with the company for 15

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Over 40% of Sustainable Palm Oil Labels in Food Comes From Breakfast Cereals

    Over 40% of Sustainable Palm Oil Labels in Food Comes From Breakfast Cereals

According to Euromonitor’s new Ethical Labels data, in 2015 over 40% of sustainable palm oil labels in packaged food comes from breakfast cereals with only 1% from confectionery. Passport Ethical

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Heineken Announces Global Partnership With Formula One

    Heineken Announces Global Partnership With Formula One

Global brewer Heineken and Formula One Management (FOM) have reached an agreement for Heineken® to become a Global Partner of Formula 1® (F1®). This significant partnership will start this year

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New Chief For British Frozen Food Federation

    New Chief For British Frozen Food Federation

John Hyman (pictured right) has been selected to succeed Brian Young (pictured left) as chief executive of the British Frozen Food Federation. John Hyman, a highly experienced food industry professional,

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Gourmet Teas in Pouches Will Appeal to Busy Consumers Craving Quality Hot Drinks

    Gourmet Teas in Pouches Will Appeal to Busy Consumers Craving Quality Hot Drinks

Hot drinks such as tea and coffee are a staple of busy consumers’ lives. However, an apparent lack of time means consumers often turn to “quick” options such as microwaveable

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Swiss Cows Help Henniez to Produce Green Energy

    Swiss Cows Help Henniez to Produce Green Energy

Nestlé Waters has opened Switzerland’s largest agricultural biogas production facility. The Valbroye plant will provide renewable energy for the nearby Henniez bottled water plant and the Swiss power grid, as well

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World’s First Semi-automatic Tray Sealer For Skin Deep Packs Launched

    World’s First Semi-automatic Tray Sealer For Skin Deep Packs Launched

Heat sealing specialists Proseal has launched the world’s first semi-automatic tray sealer for skin deep packs. The new Proseal GTR-E is able to seal products that sit up to 100mm above

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Yildiz Forms New Global Biscuit and Confectionery Business

    Yildiz Forms New Global Biscuit and Confectionery Business

Yildiz Holding, the largest food company in Central & Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa, has brought together its core biscuit, chocolate, and confectionery businesses Godiva Chocolatier, United Biscuits, Ulker

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Brown-Forman Delivers Solid Underlying Growth

    Brown-Forman Delivers Solid Underlying Growth

US-based drinks group Brown-Forman has reported a 2% drop in net sales to $4.01 billion but a 5% rose on an underlying basis for the year ended April 30 2016

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Matusalem Rum Opens New Production Facility

    Matusalem Rum Opens New Production Facility

Matusalem Rum, the Miami-based family owned beverages group, has opened a new production facility located in Monte Plata, Dominican Republic. The new facility is projected to produce over 550,000 cases

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Safety Net Measures For EU Fruit and Vegetables Extended

    Safety Net Measures For EU Fruit and Vegetables Extended

The European Commission has formally extended until the end of June 2017 the safety net measures for the EU fruit and vegetables sector. The safety net measures were first introduced

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BCGA Shares ‘Invisible Industry’ Expertise With Food and Drink Processing Industry

    BCGA Shares ‘Invisible Industry’ Expertise With Food and Drink Processing Industry

The food and drink industry can now access a range of guidance following moves by national trade body The British Compressed Gases Association (BCGA) to increase awareness and reinforce safety

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European Commission Approves Sysco’s Acquisition of Brakes

    European Commission Approves Sysco’s Acquisition of Brakes

The European Commission has cleared the proposed acquisition of Brakes, the largest UK food distributor, by Sysco, the largest US food distributor. The Commission found that the takeover would not

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Mondelez International Investing $15 Million in New Research & Development Centre in Poland

    Mondelez International Investing $15 Million in New Research & Development Centre in Poland

Mondelēz International officially started construction of a new global Research, Development & Quality (RDQ) site in Bielany Wroclawskie. The state-of- the-art research and development facility is expected to open in

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Irish Grocery Spend Continues to Rise as Record Numbers Shop at Lidl

    Irish Grocery Spend Continues to Rise as Record Numbers Shop at Lidl

The latest supermarket share figures from Kantar Worldpanel in Ireland, for the 12 weeks ending 22 May 2016, show a strong sales boost for the grocery market with sales increasing

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Positive Response to RSPO Certified Sustainable, Traceable Certificates Down to Mill Level

    Positive Response to RSPO Certified Sustainable, Traceable Certificates Down to Mill Level

Buyers of palm oil can now choose to support specific, named producers with GreenPalm certificates, which now include the name, address and GPS location of the sustainably certified mill trading

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TOMRA Launches New Russian Website and Video Platform

    TOMRA Launches New Russian Website and Video Platform

TOMRA Sorting Food has announced the launch of its Russian language website, which will provide a dynamic online resource for its customers across Russia. The launch of the website, which

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Arla Foods Opens New Distribution Hub in Germany

    Arla Foods Opens New Distribution Hub in Germany

Arla Foods has opened a new state-of-art distribution terminal with a combined 10,000 sq m warehouse with cooling areas and office buildings in Heidenau near Hamburg. The new distribution centre

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Dawn Meats Produces Billionth Irish Beef Burger For McDonald’s

    Dawn Meats Produces Billionth Irish Beef Burger For McDonald’s

Irish group Dawn Meats has produced its billionth beef burger at its production site at Carroll’s Cross in Waterford, which was opened in June 2012, for casual dining giant McDonald’s.

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The Brewers of Europe Elects New President

    The Brewers of Europe Elects New President

The General Assembly of The Brewers of Europe has elected Pavlos Photiades, managing director of Photos Photiades Breweries, as its new president, succeeding Demetrio Carceller. Photiades Breweries is the leading

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Backing the First Global Standard to Fight Food Waste

    Backing the First Global Standard to Fight Food Waste

Nestlé has played a key role in developing the first global standard to help companies and governments reduce food loss and waste. Food loss and waste costs the global economy

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Tetra Pak Commits to 100% Renewable Electricity by 2030

    Tetra Pak Commits to 100% Renewable Electricity by 2030

Tetra Pak has joined RE100, committing to increase its use of renewable electricity from 20% today to 100% across all global operations by 2030. The announcement was made at the

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Eden Springs to be Acquired by Cott Corporation For €470 Million

  Eden Springs to be Acquired by Cott Corporation For €470 Million

Eden Springs, one of Europe’s leading suppliers of water and coffee solutions to offices in 18 European markets, is being

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Jobs Boost For Northumbrian Fine Foods Following Investment

  Jobs Boost For Northumbrian Fine Foods Following Investment

Northumbrian Fine Foods (NFF), the UK’s biggest gluten free biscuit manufacturer, is investing £1.2 million in new baking production capabilities

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Navigating Complex Global Rules For Soft Drinks

  Navigating Complex Global Rules For Soft Drinks

Leatherhead Food Research is addressing uncertainty over challenging global regulations for soft drinks and fruit juices with a bespoke industry

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Another Green Milestone For Muntons

  Another Green Milestone For Muntons

Following the unveiling of its £5.4 million anaerobic digestion plant in 2015, Stowmarket-based Muntons has further improved its environmental credentials

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Leadership Change at Lindt & Sprüngli

  Leadership Change at Lindt & Sprüngli

Swiss confectionery group Lindt & Sprüngli has announced that Ernst Tanner, President & CEO, has decided to focus on the

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Associated Seafoods Scoops Export Award

  Associated Seafoods Scoops Export Award

Associated Seafoods has won the Export Business of the Year category at the Scotland Food & Drink Excellence Awards 2016. A

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Official Celebration of Nestlé’s 150 Years in Switzerland

  Official Celebration of Nestlé’s 150 Years in Switzerland

Nestlé has inaugurated its new discovery centre, nest, with festivities organised in Switzerland for its 150th anniversary. The President of

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New System Delivers Major Enhancements For Partner Logistics

  New System Delivers Major Enhancements For Partner Logistics

A new Warehouse Management System (WMS) has been successfully introduced at the Partner Logistics cold store in Wisbech following a

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Unilever to Sell AdeS Soy Beverage Business in Latin America

  Unilever to Sell AdeS Soy Beverage Business in Latin America

Unilever, one of the world’s leading suppliers of Personal Care, Foods, Home Care and Refreshment products, has agreed with Coca

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Belgian Researchers Check Quality of Chocolate With Ultrasound

  Belgian Researchers Check Quality of Chocolate With Ultrasound

The quality of Belgium’s famous chocolate largely depends on the crystals that form during the hardening of the chocolate. Researchers

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Acid Whey Isn’t Waste – It’s a Goldmine, Says Arla Foods Ingredients

  Acid Whey Isn’t Waste – It’s a Goldmine,  Says Arla Foods Ingredients

Many dairy companies are yet to realise that their acid whey is a valuable raw material that can be used

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New Partnership For Nestlé Health Science

  New Partnership For Nestlé Health Science

Nestlé Health Science has entered into a strategic collaboration with DBV Technologies, headquartered in Montrouge, France, aimed at developing and

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UK Big Four Retain Shoppers Despite Strong Competition

  UK Big Four Retain Shoppers Despite Strong Competition

The latest grocery share figures from Kantar Worldpanel, for the 12 weeks ending 22 May 2016, show the market to

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Müller Confirms £15 Million Investment in Scotland

  Müller Confirms £15 Million Investment in Scotland

Müller Milk & Ingredients has confirmed that it will invest £15 million in its dairy at Bellshill to create Scotland’s

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Guild of Fine Food Launches Great Taste Portugal

  Guild of Fine Food Launches Great Taste Portugal

Having judged more than 100,000 entries from across the globe in the UK and Ireland over the past 22 years,

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New Irish Health & Wellness Company Launches Yogurt For Bones and Muscles

  New Irish Health & Wellness Company Launches Yogurt For Bones and Muscles

M&J Nutrition, a Dublin-based start-up company, is introducing ProU, a new fortified yogurt that offers some key nutritional benefits for

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TMDP LLP – Dedicated to the Food and Drink Processing Industry

TMDP LLP is a full service architectural design and property management agency working with, and retained by some of the

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Brown-Forman Re-enters Single Malt Scotch Whisky Sector

  Brown-Forman Re-enters Single Malt Scotch Whisky Sector

Brown-Forman Corporation has completed its acquisition of The BenRiach Distillery Company for £281 million. The purchase, which brings three outstanding

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Bridgepoint Acquires Turkish Snacks Business

  Bridgepoint Acquires Turkish Snacks Business

Peyman, the Turkish packaged dried fruit, nuts and seeds producer, has been acquired by private equity firm Bridgepoint for an

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Mondelez International Launches New Media Model to Fuel Growth

  Mondelez International Launches New Media Model to Fuel Growth

Mondelēz International has launched a new media monetization model that will allow the company to improve the return on investment

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Bigger, Better, Busier – Vitafoods Europe Breaks Visitor Records in its 20th Year

  Bigger, Better, Busier – Vitafoods Europe  Breaks Visitor Records in its 20th Year

Vitafoods Europe 2016 welcomed a total of 17,666 visitors through its doors – an increase of 13% over last year,

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Hygienic Building Protection

  Hygienic Building Protection

In food and drink factories, hygiene is an important factor when manufacturing, processing, packaging and distributing quality products. It is

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Craft Spirits Account For One in Seven Global Spirit Launches

  Craft Spirits Account For One in Seven Global Spirit Launches

Whilst craft beer has taken the world by storm, today there is a new drink taking a shot at global

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Changes to Emmi Group Management

  Changes to Emmi Group Management

With effect from 1 January 2017, Swiss dairy group Emmi has announced a number of changes to its Group Management. Robert

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FSA Publishes Latest Campylobacter Results

  FSA Publishes Latest Campylobacter Results

The UK Food Standards Agency has published the latest results from its survey of campylobacter on fresh shop-bought chickens. The

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New Apple Variety to Revolutionise English Apple Season

  New Apple Variety to Revolutionise English Apple Season

A new English apple variety that ‘matures in taste like a fine wine’ is set to transform the UK apple

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Safety Under Foot With Resin Flooring

  Safety Under Foot With Resin Flooring

Efficiency and safety under foot in a food factory is high priority when it comes to deciding a new floor.

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TINE to Build New Jarlsberg® Cheese Production Plant in Ireland

  TINE to Build New Jarlsberg® Cheese Production Plant in Ireland

TINE, Norway’s largest farmer-owned dairy co-operative, is planning to construct a new Jarlsberg cheese production facility in Ireland. The project

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Nestlé Research Partners With Imperial College London

  Nestlé Research Partners With Imperial College London

Imperial College London and Nestlé Research are establishing a research and innovation partnership exploring metabolic health and nutrition. The collaboration will

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204,000 Jobs Are Dependent on Drinks and Hospitality Sector in Ireland

  204,000 Jobs Are Dependent on Drinks and Hospitality Sector in Ireland

The Drinks Industry Group of Ireland has launched the Support Your Local campaign for 2016, which seeks to highlight the

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Mondelez International Strengthens Efforts to Address Child Labour in Cocoa Production

  Mondelez International Strengthens Efforts to Address Child Labour in Cocoa Production

Embode, a human rights consultancy, has published the results of two independent assessments of child protection in the cocoa sector

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Asia’s Beverage Market to Experience Unprecedented Growth

  Asia’s Beverage Market to Experience Unprecedented Growth

Canadean’s latest long-term beverage predictions highlight the increasing volume migration from developed to emerging markets. By 2021 Asia is predicted

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