Rising overheads hit packaging profits, despite higher sales
Growing sales in the first quarter of the financial year failed to offset the ongoing problem of soaring overhead and raw material costs for a string of leading packaging companies.
Archives for April 28, 2011
Dough hydrator said to cut input costs and boost quality
A new ‘clean label’ dough hydrator, used in conjunction with standard dough conditioner, provides savings on raw material inputs and boosts bread quality, reports French supplier Limagrain Céréales Ingrédients (LCI).
EC vetoes polyphosphates as fish processing aid
The European Commission has declared that polyphosphates (PPs) are additives and cannot be used as a processing aid in salted fish production.
United Biscuits to encourage more suppliers to use ethical data exchange
United Biscuits’ (UB) is aiming to increase the number of its suppliers signed up to the Supplier Ethical Data Exchange (Sedex) system to 80 per cent by the end of 2011, the firm said in its recent sustainability report.
Nestlé and General Mills invest €27m in new Malaysian cereal factory
Nestlé and General Mills’ joint venture Cereal Partners Worldwide (CPW) is investing €27m in a new Malaysian factory to enable the local production of Nestlé breakfast cereals in the country for the first time.
“Artisanal customers needn’t worry”, says Puratos post-Latvian acquisition
Belgian supplier Puratos says its undisclosed acquisition this week of 17-year-old Latvian fruit fillings firm, Pure Food, is about expansion into the central and eastern European and Nordic regions – and the supermarket channel - but its artisanal...
Review calls for ‘extensive’ folic acid fortification in Germany
Over 85 per cent of neural tube defects cases caused by folate deficiency in Germany could be prevented by adopting mandatory fortification, according to a review which argues in favour of food fortification.
Canada Bread upbeat about UK bakery division
Canada Bread posted a first-quarter loss citing declining volumes in its North American frozen bakery business but talked up improved performance in its UK bakery operations.