Archives for June 30, 2004

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Commodity rises to hit profit, warns food maker

There are signs that rising commodity costs are pinching the length of the food chain with US cereal product maker General Mills warning that, despite strong fourth quarter figures, the soaring costs will have an impact in the near future.

Reimelt sees great potential in British baking

A leading international player in the design, manufacture and supply of powder handling systems for the food and ingredients industries, has further strengthened its sales team to improve response times to UK clients.

Industry slams sweetener study

A new study on artificial sweeteners reported in the news yesterday has fuelled a rapid response from the soft drinks industry, which branded the research by US researchers at Purdue University as 'pure speculation'.

Help for manufacturers from the Supply-Chain Council

The US-based Supply-Chain Council (SCC) has published Version 6.1 of the Supply-Chain Operations Reference-model (SCOR), a business process model used to describe and measure the business activities associated with all phases of satisfying a...