Kellogg backs down over vitamin trademark
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.
Archives for August 5, 2002
Italian miller reacts to GM feeling
Italy's biggest miller, Grandi Molini Italiani (GMI), refuses to import genetically modified (GM) wheat because consumers do not want it, its CEO Antonio Costato said on Monday.
Japanese meat processors provoke questions
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 lips of consumers and...
Sugar production: merits of vertical integration
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.
Flour negotiations puff away
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.
New machine for food irradiation
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 into food...