Archives for August 21, 2005

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Investment firm sees opportunity in plastic closures

By Ahmed ElAmin

PAI Partners' purchase of Crown Holdings' international plastic closures business, most of which is based in Europe, could help food processors here if the investment firm is able to make the unitmore competitive.

Weekly comment

Waiting for the super-nutrition revolution

Henry Ford's famous aphorism that if he had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses, provides food makers with a lesson they must learn.

Latest figures reveal wholegrain surge

By  Lorraine Heller

US sales of wholegrain cookies have skyrocketed 1,364 per cent in the past year, marking them as the nation's fastest growing wholegrain bakery product, according to market researcher AC Nielsen.