Published: Jul 17, 2012

Al Kabeer, a Dubai-based manufacturer of frozen foods, has plans to open a frozen food facility in Saudi Arabia with an investment of SAR50m ($13.3m).

Published: Jul 16, 2012

Paris continues to be the pinnacle of food and the French benchmark still ranks as the highest in the world, declared Dorothy Cann Hamilton, founder of the International Culinary Center, during a gathering of foodservice professionals, food journalists

Published: Jul 16, 2012

Lantmännen Unibake Germany has announced the closing of its Verden plant at the end of September.

Published: Jul 13, 2012

How come healthy foods are hardly ever advertised on kiddie shows? Whatever the reason, Birds Eye is trying to break the pattern by teaming up with "iCarly," a popular show on Nickelodeon.

Published: Jul 13, 2012

Lineage Logistics, a warehousing and logistics company organized last April by Bay Grove Capital LLC, has acquired Castle & Cooke Cold Storage (CCCS), a third-party warehousing logistics company headquartered in Colton, California, from Castle & Cooke In

Published: Jul 12, 2012

Private equity firm Permira has cancelled its plans to both refinance and sell the frozen food company Iglo.

Published: Jul 10, 2012

Potato processing company Aviko has launched frozen sweet potatofries for the UK foodservice trade based on research indicatingthat consumers perceive the product as a healthy and attractiveoption, especially for families.

Published: Jul 10, 2012

Permira, the private equity firm, is planning a 500-million euro refinancing of Birds Eye Iglo, the frozen foods business, which will see the majority of the capital returned to investors, according to the Financial Times.

Published: Jul 10, 2012

People in the United States may be upset about losing frozen food to blackouts, but in the largest city of Nigeria, Lagos, power outages are chronic and frozen food traders are suffering.

Published: Jul 07, 2012

Will Lion Capital try to unload some of its underperforming Findus units to Iglo? Thats what it has in mind, according to the Financial Times, as it tries to fend over a takeover bid from enough private equity group, Triton.

Published: Jul 06, 2012

16 Handles, a US-based frozen yogurt chain, has launched Coconut Custard Pie, its new yogurt, for the month of July.

Published: Jul 05, 2012

Freshlink Foods is planning to close its frozen sausage factory in Glasgow, Scotland, putting nearly 145 jobs at risk. The company has initiated a 90-day consultation period with its workforce about the future of the plant.

Published: Jul 04, 2012

The fight is on for control of troubled Findus, one of the UK's best-known frozen food groups which owns Findus Crispy Pancakes, Lean Cuisine and Young's Seafood.

Published: Jul 04, 2012

The American Frozen Food Institute (AFFI) and the National Frozen & Refrigerated Foods Association (NFRA) have jointly announced that the Distinguished Order of Zerocrats has selected three food industry leaders as the 2012 Frozen Food Hall of Fame induct

Published: Jul 03, 2012

Pacific Equity Partners has agreed to acquire the Peters Ice Cream business of Nestle Australia Ltd. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Published: Jul 02, 2012

Pacific Equity Partners, an Australian private equity firm, has acquired Swiss food giant Nestlé's Australian ice cream brand Peters and Mulgrave factory located at Victoria for an undisclosed amount.

Published: Jun 29, 2012 By: Paul Gander

Growth of 6% in the value of retail chilled and frozen food sales, though partly explained by price inflation, can also be accounted for by an increasingly segmented offering in many product areas, say sector organisations.

Published: Jun 29, 2012

The future of Iglo group is up in the air, after private equity allies Blackstone and BC Partners refused to sweeten an offer that had been turned down by the frozen food unit's current owner, the Permira Group.

Published: Jun 29, 2012

Kruiningen, Holland-headquartered Lamb Weston/Meijer (LW/M), a major producer of frozen potato products, has published its online sustainability report for 2010 and 2011.

Published: Jun 29, 2012

Welmar Europe has been acquired by Marubeni Corporation, a leading Japanese trading house, for ¥1.1 billion (11.1 million euros), according to a Sankei Shimbun report published in Tokyo on June 26.