News & Analysis on the Bakery and Snacks Industries
The last few years have seen a quickening in the pace of new product launches by the world's top two soft drinks companies, with new flavour or formula variants of the traditional Coca-Cola and Pepsi brands leading the way.
Competition in European flavours heated up this week as Cargill, the largest private company in the US, signed on the dotted line for UK flavours group The Duckworth Group (TDG).
With Hungary's entry into the EU in May, producers of one of the country's main food specialities will face a particular challenge. Moves by the Union to phase out the force feeding of geese over the next 15 years are likely to have a major impact on...
The Estonian Brewers' Association is concerned that a requirement to buy back empty beer cans for recycling could get out of hand once the country joins the EU in May. Trans-border purchases of beer, already very high, will increase substantially when...
Russia may be slowly adapting a number of western food and drink habits - the rise of the country's beer industry is evidence of that - but there is still plenty of life left in some of the country's more traditional food sectors.