Processor to focus on packaged meat segment
Pork processor Smithfield Foods is closing six plants and transferring production to other facilities in a move it claims will enable it to concentrate on growing its higher-margin packaged meat business.
Archives for February 18, 2009
Recession pushes date change for first online bakery trade show
Organisers of the baking industry's first online trade show - eBakery-Show International 2009 (www.ebakeryshowinfo.com) - have pushed the date back from 1 April to 1 August in response to the economic climate.
GM experts fail to reach decision on French maize ban
The divisive GM issue rumbles on at a European level with an EU expert committee failing to reach an agreement to lift French and Greek national bans on the cultivation of a Monsanto maize crop.