San Miguel wins over National Foods' board with revised bid
San Miguel, the Philippines food and beverage group, has trumped a rival bid from Fonterra, the world's biggest dairy exporter, to buy Australia's National Foods, Tom Armitage reports.
Archives for April 5, 2005
Danisco extends timeline for Genencor buy, again
Danisco's move into the number two enzyme position delayed for the second time as German regulators pose questions on anti-trust issues.
Automated cheese batching achieves costs reduction
Scanvaegt claims that a major Dutch dairy has been able to reduce the average giveaway on its foiled cheese batching operations to as little as 1g per 10 kg batch through the installation of automated cheese batching equipment.
Accession recruitment plan to halt dairy dropout
The Milk Development Council (MDC), the government-appointed marketing body for the UK milk industry, has issued advice to farmers on recruiting labour from EU-accession member states - as the number of people wanting to work in the industry continues...