The Fresh Market said net sales rose 22.1% in the three months to 28 October, climbing to US$321.5m as new store openings and same-store sales growth contributed to the top line. Comparable sales rose 5.6% and the company opened six new locations in the p
A drive to boost UK food exports was launched last week, when the country's largest ever trade delegation went to China in a bid to develop the UK's presence in the market.
India’s supply chain management for storing food products and pharmaceutical products is highly inefficient and about 20% of all food products is wasted every year.
As pork producers struggle with record-high feed prices caused by the worst US drought since the 1950s, the National Pork Board has approved domestic and international marketing budgets that will help drive pork demand at a critical time.
Dairy nutrition firm Volac has reported an operating profit increase of nearly 40% for the year ending February 2012, citing the impact of increased exports and improved profits from overseas operations.
San Miguel Pure Foods, the food division of Philippine conglomerate San Miguel, has raised about PHP6bn ($146m) with the sale of 2.5 million common shares for PHP240 ($5.82) each.
The German Edeka Group will take over four outlets of the insolvent fruit juice manufacturer Elro from Rostock. The take-over will secure some 170 jobs in Poland and Germany.
Efficiency improvements and successful price negotiations are helping meat firm Cranswick offset the impact of rising feed costs, according to City analysts commenting on its interim results for the six months to September 30.
A plague of ‘zombie companies’ is threatening to suck the vitality out of the UK economy, according to leading insolvency experts, and the food manufacturing sector could be under threat.
Renuka Shaw Wallace, formally known as Coco Lanka, has launched a new corporate identity and announced plans to invest SLR1.8bn ($13.81m) in the food and beverage (F&B) sector over the next three years.
The hordes of early Black Friday shoppers lining up outside big box stores across the St. Louis region on Thursday night welcomed the unseasonably warm temperatures as they waited for stores to open earlier than ever before.
Total beverage volumes were 4% ahead of the prior period on an organic basis with lager volumes up 4%, soft drinks volumes up 6% and other alcoholic beverages up 12%.
