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PepsiCo's Imagine snack brand aims to provide three million meals to kids in need. Pic: PepsiCo

PepsiCo’s Imagine Snacks partners with No Kid Hungry

By Gill Hyslop

Imagine – a range of kiddies snacks that provide ‘a good source of protein and calcium’ – has embarked on a three-year partnership with No Kid Hungry, a national campaign to fight childhood hunger in America.

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Kellogg to close US plant, lay off 108 workers

By Gill Hyslop

The breakfast cereal giant will lay off 108 of its workers when it shuts its Atlanta frozen food plant on October 10, 2019, according to the Georgia Department of Labor.

WFCF has updated its Gluten-Free standard. Pic: ©GettyImages/JoyImage

New gluten-free standard launched

By Gill Hyslop

Where Food Comes From – which provides independent, third-party verification of food production practices in North America – has launched the ‘Gluten Free by WFCF’ standard.

Grupo Bimbo Net posted flat sales year-over-year, mainly due to a stronger Mexican peso, volume pressure in North America and weaker consumption in Mexico, offset by sales growth in EAA. Pic: Grupo Bimbo

Grupo Bimbo posts soft sales

By Gill Hyslop

The world’s biggest bread maker reported higher prices and growing revenue headwinds in the US and Mexico contributed to flat net sales for its second quarter ended June 30.

Arnott's has finally found a purchaser. Pic: AFR

Global buyout bigwig wins bidding war for Arnott's

By Gill Hyslop

Campbell Soup has agreed to sell Australia’s biggest biscuits company to voracious US private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) - which purchased RJR Nabisco in 1988 - finally ending an auction process that lasted almost a year.

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