At the Extraordinary Shareholders Meeting of Karlshamns AB, on
August 15, Jan Ohlsson, director and chairman of the Board, along
with Director Lars Hjort resigned from their respective positions.
The hot weather in Spain has led, not surprisingly, to an increase
in ice cream sales there during June and July. But impulse sales
have not grown as rapidly as might be expected, as it has been too
hot for consumers to leave their...
UK dairy farmers are planning to market the controversial A2 milk,
said to be better for the heart, and also claimed to help children
with autism, according to a report.
SWF Companies' Tisma Division has launched a high speed, small
centre TC 100 vertical cartoner, which is claimed to reach speeds
of up to 1000 cartons per minute and works well with a variety of
closing methods.
Invensys APV's re-developed Curdmaster cheese tank is now said to
allow cheese manufacturers to reduce cheese fines in whey by up to
35 per cent, creating a major boost for productivity.
Agribusiness giant Archer Daniels Midland yesterday announced it
will increase its capacity for the production of the sweetener
liquid sorbitol at its Decatur plant in the US by 60 per cent.
National Starch has appointed Biomin to distribute its nutrition
products in Scandinavia. The exclusive agreement includes the
supply of Hi-maize and Novelose, plus forthcoming new product
developments in Denmark, Finland, Norway...
Custom-designed thermoformed tubs from RPC Bebo Plastik have played
a key role in the recent development of a new range of children's
spreads from leading German dairy manufacturer Frischli Milchwerke.
Organic dairy foods group Horizon Organic reported an increase in
sales of 21 per cent in the US and 20 per cent in the UK during the
second quarter of 2003, compared with the second quarter of 2002.
Gardner Technologies, a US-based wine technology company dedicated
to improving wine closure quality, has launched MetaCork, a
twist-to-uncork wine opener.
Dairy manufacturers have spent fortunes devising solutions to make
ice cream more enjoyable for consumers. The latest development
comes from a team of scientists in Spain who believe they have
devised a way of avoiding ice crystals.
Dairy multinational Fonterra Co-operative Group has raised US$165
million (€145m) in a private placement of long-term debt to US
institutional investors.
The UK's FSA has published guidance notes to accompany the new
cocoa and chocolate product regulations in an effort to achieve a
'more consistent application and enforcement of the regulations'.
