Published: Jul 05, 2012 By: Mike Stones

The Crantock Bakery has been ordered to pay £29,000 after one of its night shift cleaners became trapped in the unguarded machinery of a moving conveyor belt.

Published: Jul 05, 2012

Menthol supplier BASF plans to open a new factory this summer to meet demands from confectioners soon after its rival Symrise boosted its own capacity earlier this month.

Published: Jul 05, 2012 By: Kacey Culliney

Kraft displayed a clever piece of targeted marketing in its Facebook upload of an Oreo cookie with rainbow-coloured filling on Gay Pride day, according to an industry expert.

Published: Jul 05, 2012

Frito-Lay North America, a convenient foods business unit of PepsiCo, has introduced two new tortilla chips flavors under Tostitos Artisan Recipes brand.

Published: Jul 04, 2012

Chocolate manufacturers will risk a poorer quality final product unless they trace what happens to cocoa beans before they reach their factories, say researchers.

Published: Jul 04, 2012 By: Kacey Culliney

Ingredients supplier CSM has confirmed its decision to rid its European and US bakery businesses and reposition as a bio-based ingredients company, with plans to divest by the first half of 2013.

Published: Jul 04, 2012 By: Kacey Culliney

The Real Good Food Company (RGFC) has pinpointed its bakery ingredients business Renshaw as the ‘gem’ within the group and has committed to a growth strategy for this arm.

Published: Jul 04, 2012 By: Rod Addy

US firm Caravan Ingredients showcased cracker enzyme technology that delivers greater throughput and less wastage for firms making the snack at the Institute of Food Technologists 2012 Annual Meeting & Expo, Las Vegas.

Published: Jul 04, 2012

J&J Snack Foods Corp. is introducing Tater Stuffers, a line of filled hash browns specifically for the roller grill.

Published: Jul 04, 2012

Pinnacle Foods is expanding its Vlasic pickles with Farmer’s Garden by Vlasic home-style pickles to supermarkets nationwide.

Published: Jul 04, 2012

A leading Australian nutrition scientist, Professor Andrew Sinclair from Deakin University, has called for mandatory labelling in Australia of trans fat in food products.

Published: Jul 03, 2012 By: Mike Stones

The Clydesdale & Yorkshire Banks are advising food and drink manufacturers to turn global interest in the Olympics into export opportunities.

Published: Jul 03, 2012

The EU sugar supply is constrained and the confectionery industry is nervous about upcoming sugar reforms, according to Nestlé’s procurement head, who is also chair of a UK sugar users group.

Published: Jul 03, 2012

Kraft Foods has bagged an innovation award from market analysts Nielsen for its Trident Layers gum brand.

Published: Jul 03, 2012 By: Kacey Culliney

PepsiCo is pumping more than 50 new products into India’s dynamic and surging snacks sector but it needs to be sensitive to localised differences to secure stable growth, according to an analyst.

Published: Jul 03, 2012

FrieslandCampina Kievit has launched a ‘sweet creamer’ concept that has been shown to replace more than 40% of the sugar in sweetened instant drinks.

Published: Jul 03, 2012

Nestlé has responded to a Fair Labor Association (FLA) report, compiled in November 2011, which found that Nestlé’s cocoa supply chain included the use of child labour in the Ivory Coast.

Published: Jul 03, 2012

Spanish gourmets have shown penchant for dried food over other variants of pasta & noodles during 2011, according to a new report by UK-based research firm Canadean - Food.

Published: Jul 03, 2012

Egypt-based Upper Egypt for Food Industries (UEFI) plans to invest EGP200m ($32.59m) to build two food production facilities in El Menia and Beni Suef governorates.

Published: Jul 02, 2012

The Central government has decided to make available 45 lakh tonnes of non-levy sugar for the quarter of July to September, 2012, according to a press note issued by the ministry of consumer affairs, food & public distribution.