ConAgra's public response to the second-largest meat recall in US
history differs dramatically from several high-profile food and
medicine scares of the past, say experts in crisis management.
Irish packaging group Jefferson Smurfit is set for takeover by a US
private equity group following shareholder approval of the bid
earlier this week. The acquisition comes as the company announced a
decline in pre-tx profits for the...
As we reported earlier this week Australian biscuit giant Arnott
has plans to restructure its Australian and New Zealand operations
into three separate business units as it seeks further growth in
the region.
German soft drinks company Thuringer Waldquell (TWQ) is hoping that
a new PET bottling line will help it increase sales of its popular
Vita Cola brand.
Researchers in the UK claim to have devised a new method of
selectively oxidising terpenes to produce compounds of particular
interest to the perfumery, flavour and pharmaceutical industries.
Scientists at Oxford have developed a...
Talks of a joint venture for a flour business in the Philippines
between local food and beverage firm RFM and Switzerland-based
Zuellig Group have fizzled out, reports the Philippine Daily
Inquirer.
A father-and-son team in the US are hoping to take the food
irradiation market by storm. Irad, owned by Dan and Justin Siegel,
which currently makes irradiation machines for the medical and
industrial markets is to set to branch out...
Sugar industry experts meeting this week at the annual
International Sweetener Symposium have touted the advantages for
farmers and consumers of vertical integration in the American
sugar-producing industry.
Did Nippon Meat Packers, Japan's biggest meat processing company,
incinerate beef that might have linked the company to a plot to
collect undeserved subsidies under a government beef-buyback
programme? The question is on the...
A dispute which pitted US food giant Kellogg against the somewhat
smaller Green Turtle Bay Vitamin Company over the latter's
trademark vitamin, Sunnie, has ended with a victory for the smaller
company.
Eighteen months ago, US meat giant ConAgra Foods, currently at the
centre of a scandal concerning an E.coli outbreak, sent word that
it would end its contract for poultry de-boning operations in
Milan, a north-central city in Missouri,...
A biscuit factory in Victoria, Australia, belonging to Australian
company Arnott's, is set to close as part of a $100 (€54.7m)
million expansion of Arnott's Sydney and Brisbane plants and
upgrading of its Adelaide factory,...
A microturbine generator that runs on methane biogas from animal
manure will be evaluated as a source of electricity and heat for a
research dairy farm in a cooperative project of the Agricultural
Research Service (ARS), the US Department...
The food unit of Mexican conglomerate Grupo Alfa, Sigma Alimentos,
said on Thursday that it had acquired Costa Rica's leading producer
and distributor of processed meats, Embutidos Zar, for an
undisclosed amount.
New research from the UK has revealed that selenium (Se) levels in
British bread-making wheats are 10 to 50 times lower than in their
American or Canadian counterparts. The study, published in the
Journal of the Science of Food and...
Food irradiation specialist signs second Asian agreement in as many
days, joining forces with a Thai company in a venture which should
allow greater access for Thai fruit products to the US market.
Crown Cork & Seal completes $23.5 million sale of packaging
units in Central and Eastern Africa, although Zambian unit sale is
still subject to anti-trust approval.
Union workers are locked out of Graphic Packaging's Michigan plant
after failing to reach a new contract agreement. Both parties
remain entrenched in their respective positions concerning overtime
and pensions, and a resolution...
Ball Corporation is closing an older plastic container plant in
Sioux City, Iowa, US, and shifting the manufacturing operations to
its Ames, Iowa , plant, which will be expanded.
Having been on the verge of bankruptcy just eight months ago, Crown
Cork and Seal are now well on the road to recovery, after an
intensive period of cost cutting and selling off a number of its
less profitable divisions.
The single-use foodservice packaging industry is looking and
feeling very healthy, according to State of the Foodservice
Packaging Industry Report, issued today by the Foodservice &
Packaging Institute.
Workers in the food industry with access to irradiation equipment
aren't required to undergo background checks, increasing the
potential for theft or sabotage, a US lawmaker has said.
China will invest 20 billion yuan (€2. 5 billion) in a number of
key science and technology research and development projects,
including food-related projects, within the next three to five
years, the Ministry of Science and Technology...
Australia has chosen Malaysia as its hub for the manufacture of
halal food products, allowing its companies to tap into a lucrative
global market currently worth some $50 billion (€49bn).
Graham Packaging Holdings, the US-based plastic packaging provider,
has said its worldwide unit sales increased 4 per cent in the
second quarter of 2002 and 7 per cent in the first six months of
2002, compared to the same periods...
International Dispensing Corporation has announced that the US
Patent and Trademark Office has allowed IDC's utility patent
application for its Aseptic Gravity Flow Valve.
The world's top paper and board producer Stora Enso posted
disappointing second-quarter earnings recently and said conditions
remained tough in its main markets, sending its stock sliding.
Food packaging is set to become even more functional in the future.
If current prototypes are anything to go by it might not be long
before packaging is edible or that it is able to warn us when it
needs refrigerating, said a report...
The palm oil industry, which catapulted Malaysia and Indonesia into
the global oils trade, may emerge as a new lifeline for the
troubled island of Mindanao.
BioDelivery Sciences International has announced that it has
initiated a collaboration with a national manufacturer of processed
foods to determine if its patented Bioral nanotechnology improves
the delivery of micronutrients as supplements...
Investment firm Hicks Muse Tate & Furst has said it will delay
its $1.4 billion (€1.4bn)investment in Greeley-based ConAgra Beef
as the company deals with the second-largest beef recall in US
history, said a report in the Denver...
Following the 8th International Processing, Packaging and Printing
Exhibition in Shanghai, ProPak China has been designated as the
official industry expo in China.
Strategic Diagnostics, a leading provider of antibody products and
analytical test kits for the food safety and water quality markets,
has reported that its board of directors has expanded to eight with
the appointment of Herb Lotman.
In the US, The National Pork Producers Council has carried out an
international research programme to examine the impact meat product
packaging can have on the consumer decision-making process.
Food and consumer goods firms have been jumping on the bandwagon to
certify their products under strict Islamic rules to tap into a
market worth $150 billion a year, industry experts said this week.
