UK-based dairy co-operative Milk Link has recently finished a
complete overhaul of its processing facilities through Moody
Systems, a contractor specialising in the upgrading of dairy
equipment.
Swiss Dairy Foods, which went into receivership in September, has
announced that production and marketing of speciality dairy
products under the Toni brand will be transferred to fellow Swiss
dairy group LRG.
A lengthy process of restructuring at Express Dairies has helped
the UK company to a slight improvement in underlying pre-tax
profits in the first half. But the situation remains challenging,
and it could be some time before the company...
Ingredients company RFI Ingredients, a supplier of natural
ingredients for the food and functional food industries, has signed
a merger agreement, effective from 1 November, with US nutritional
blends company Nat-Trop. The move looks...
After months of deliberation and cogitation, Orgny-Naples, a
consortium of beet growers' co-operatives, on Friday said it had
finally reached an agreement with Edison to acquire the Italian
energy company's 53.8 per cent...
As probiotics find increasing favour with food manufacturers a new
European funded study, PROGID, is set to investigate the impact of
two probiotic strains on easing the symptoms of inflammatory bowel
diseases (IBD).
Spain's Ebro Puleva group has posted a 2.5 per cent rise in net
profits for the first nine months of the year, but has warned that
the impact of its Chilean unit will push down both sales and
profits for the full year.
An EU-funded project has developed new tools that enable more
extensive and rapid analysis of our gut microbiota than has been
possible earlier. Better knowledge of the microbiota may help
scientists to prevent gut diseases or improve...
Italian energy company Edison and the French consortium bidding to
buy its majority stake in sugar maker Beghin-Say said on Wednesday
that the price was likely to be reviewed on the imminent deal.
It is an undeniable truth of the western world that the days of
'going to work on an egg' are fast disappearing into the
advertisement archives of the 1970s. Busier working lives, eating
for energy rather than pleasure and...
The financial collapse of Swiss Dairy Foods - or perhaps simply the
fact that the Swiss group's know-how is no longer needed - has
prompted Spain's biggest food group Ebro Puleva to end its joint
venture with the company...
French cheesemaker Bongrain sees sales drop 4.4 per cent in the
nine months to the end of September, but stresses that cheese sales
began to recover in the third quarter, auguring well for the rest
of the year.
Sweden's Skane Dairy group has reported a steady increase in
profits for the first half of the year, helped by good sales of its
ProViva functional juice drink.
Higher volume food and beverage flavour product sales to existing
customers contributed to a net increase for the third quarter for
flavours company Technology Flavors & Fragrances.
Food ingredients company Opta Food Ingredients this week boasted a
healthy 24 per cent increase in revenue for the third quarter with
the demand for fibre products largely fuelling the growth and
catapulting the company into the black.
Prescient, the supply chain planning solutions provider, has
supplied UK company Dairy Crest with planning and scheduling
software at its Severnside and London dairies to improve
scheduling, processing and packing efficiencies.
New report reveals that growth in value-added products designed for
specific applications is set to drive the food additives market in
the US. Flavours will gain nearly fifty per cent of the market,
with alternative sweetners revealing...
Dutch cheese producer Schipper Kaas has updated its quality control
system with the installation of Lock Inspection Systems' new
generation metal detector.
US flavoured milks company Bravo! Foods International has
introduced Slammers Reduced Fat Fortified Milk, its first
nutritionally enriched flavoured milk range.
Labels listing energy density - the number of calories per ounce -
do not encourage overeating the way "low fat" labels are suspected
of doing, a study from Penn State university in the US has shown.
While the Greeks may be rejoicing that the EU has finally granted
PDO status to their feta cheese, producers elsewhere in the Union
are preparing to fight the decision - including one small producer
in the north of England.
One of the toughest legislations in the world on genetically
modified organisms came into force in Europe on Thursday with a new
EU Directive that strengthens 10-year-old rules on testing and
licensing GMOs used as crops or ingredients.
French food and drink producer Danone highlights its positive
like-for-like sales growth in the year to date, even though sales
in actual terms were lower than in 2001 as a result of exchange
rate concerns.
Carlsberg's head of supply chain, Jette Knudsen, is to leave the
group in December after a disastrous summer season which saw the
company recall millions of cans of sour-tasting beer from the
domestic market.
Danone might have failed to prevent Leche Pascual calling its
long-life desserts 'yoghurts' but the French group has successfully
prevented the company from registering with the Spanish yoghurt
producers' association...
A bottle of milk at 85p? Sounds outrageous, but that is the likely
retail price for a nwe 'designer' milk drink, called M, which is
set for launch in the UK later in the year.
Last week's InterMopro show in Duesseldorf was the ideal platform
for Germany's leading dairy group, Alois Mueller, to launch a range
of new products, including one which it claims is truly unique.
Feta cheese is the latest food product to be protected by EU law,
joining the ranks of Champagne, parma ham or Newcastle Brown Ale.
The ruling that only Greece makes real feta cheese is a major blow
for producers in Denmark, where...
Speculation on milk prices is keeping them at an artificially low
level and could cause the collapse of the Spanish dairy sector,
warns the organisation which represents the interests of some of
Spain's smallest farms.
Terra Lycos, Spain's leading consumer website for all things food,
has signed an agreement with Ebro Puleva which will see the food
group provide it with regular information about the health benefits
of rice, dairy products and...
Allegations of anti-competitive practices in the Scottish milk
market by Robert Wiseman Dairies have been dismissed by the Office
of Fair Trading because of a lack of evidence. The decision has
angered other dairy groups, and an appeal...
The InterMopro dairy show in Duesseldorf this week was the ideal
platform for Dutch dairy group to showcase a number of new products
destined for the German market. The company is also planning to
quicken the pace of the introduction...
Australian company Bonlac Foods is to enter into a joint venture
with Japanese firm Imanaka to manufacture chocolate and sugar
blended products at Dandenong, reports IndustrySearch.com.
US scientists are meeting later this month to analyse the DNA of 11
strains of probiotic bacteria. The aim is to help food scientists
improve the safety of foods such as cheese and yoghurt and the
research will also contribute to...
As the World Dairy Expo currently gets into full swing in
Wisconsin, US, dairy industry officials are having to respond to
charges by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) that
US-produced milk contains antibiotics and...
Many foodstuffs are fortified with calcium and marketed as being
good for the health, but new research presented in the US this week
suggests that in fact such products may hinder the effectiveness of
antibiotics.
Despite the concern that it can cause TCA - the mouldy smell
attributed to bad wine - natural cork is the preferred closure for
most US winemakers, according to a survey carried out on behalf of
the Amorim cork group.
Studies presented at the annual Interscience Conference on
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, sponsored by the American
Society for Microbiology, suggest that calcium-fortified foods may
hinder the effectiveness of antibiotics.
Dairy Crest had long been tipped as the leading candidate to
acquire the St Ivel spreads business from Uniq, a rumour which has
now been confirmed by the two UK groups.
A recent study in US schools shows that students' milk consumption
and nutrition status can be significantly improved by increasing
the range of flavours on offer and the quality of milk provided in
schools.
A spokeswoman for Russian dairy and fruit juice group
Wimm-Bill-Dann reports that France's Danone recently increased its
stake in the company. An indication that WBD's policy of rapid
expansion is the right way to go?
A return to stability in Argentina and new acquisitions in Poland,
combined with a general upturn in international markets, should
help French cheese group Bongrain return to growth in the second
half.
A huge debt burden and eroding margins in the Swiss dairy sector
have forced the country's number two dairy group Swiss Dairy Foods
to call in the receivers.
Dairy multinational Fonterra, has confirmed that the US Food &
Drug Administration has inspected two of its New Zealand
manufacturing sites as part of the agency's moves to step up
vigilance of all major food manufacturer's...
Artificial sweeteners are less likely to lead to weight gain in
overweight people than consumption of foods containing sucrose,
according to research from the US published this week. With rates
of obesity increasing worldwide, the...
The reorganisation of Dutch group Wessanen is now complete with the
sale of Leerdammer, the last of its dairy units, to Fromageries Bel
of France. The group will now focus on the wellness sector - but
this will not necessarily lead...
A massive investigation into the role of diet on bone health
suggests that eating plenty of fruit and vegetables could be the
key to slowing down the onset of osteoporosis in women.
Dutch life science company DSM, together with Agennix, a US
developer of recombinant human lactoferrin, has opened a new
manufacturing facility on DSM's fermentation site in Capua, Italy.
