French Senate rejects palm oil tax
The French Senate rejected its so-called ‘Nutella tax’ on Thursday, which aimed to quadruple the tax on palm oil, a key ingredient in the hazelnut-chocolate spread.
Archives for November 16, 2012
Own label trumps brands in the soaring UK home baking market: Mintel
Brand owners must invest heavily in product development and target niche consumer groups to have a slice of the lucrative UK home baking pie, an analyst says.
Graphic Packaging CEO: “Deal takes us into new end markets”
Graphic Packaging has agreed to acquire the European Food Carton Business of Contego for £71m to expand into new end markets.
Hostess Brands throws in the towel: Strikes cause full business closure
Twinkies and Wonder Bread maker Hostess Brands has today filed a motion with the US Bankruptcy Court for permission to close the business and sell all assets.
Rigid losing to flexible packaging in North America
Rigid packaging is visibly giving way to flexible packaging in North America, according to Frost & Sullivan.
Soda-Lo: Tate & Lyle's novel solution to sodium reduction (clue: it's salt, only much, much smaller...)
Engineered using a patent-pending process that re-crystallizes standard table salt to create microscopic free-flowing hollow ‘microspheres’, Soda-Lo can help firms slash sodium and retain their clean labels because it is still listed as ‘salt’ on pack,...