Archives for January 13, 2014

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Berry Plastics charts out $31m move

By Jenni Spinner

Packaging giant Berry Plastics Group will step up its game by relocating manufacturing, investing $31m toward added infrastructure and equipment.

Can a US equity giant revive Hovis?

By Kacey Culliney

US Gores Group is allegedly in talks to buy out a stake of Premier Foods’ Hovis business and a city analyst has said that geography would not impact its ability to turn around the struggling brand.

Hip, hip, hooray—we just topped 4K!

By Jenni Spinner

The team of FoodProductionDaily has something to celebrate—the number of industry professionals following us on Twitter just passed the 4,000 mark.

FDA approves expanded use of acacia gum

By Maggie Hennessy

The US Food and Drug Administration has amended food additive regulations to allow expanded safe use of acacia gum (gum arabic) in foods, in response to a petition filed by Nexira, supplier of a dietary soluble acacia gum marketed as Fibregum.