Dr. Oetker, a German firm that produces frozen pizza, desserts and dry baking mixes, plans to invest C$113m ($109.74m) in a project to build a frozen pizza manufacturing facility.
Institute for Animal Health (IAH), an animal research laboratory located in Pirbright, UK, has received a funding of £38m, to investigate livestock disease, an initiative which would help protect UK livestock.
A group of former Pat & Oscar’s franchisees have announced a major rebranding and a menu revamp, eight months after the Pat & Oscar’s chain filed for bankruptcy.
The World Bank has approved $120m in financing to improve food production in Ghana and Senegal by spreading new agricultural technologies, as a part of the West African Agricultural Productivity Programme.
AarhusKarlshamn (AAK), a Swedish-Danish producer of high value-added specialty vegetable oils and fats, has acquired Oasis Foods Company, as a part of its plan to strengthen its presence in the North American food service market.
US food company Kellogg and German snack firm Intersnack are likely to bid for the salty snacks business of United Biscuits, whose brands include Hula Hoops and KP nuts.
Chocolate Bliss, which offers premium chocolates, pastries and beverages, is planning to expand its outlets in India, to meet the increasing demand for gourmet chocolates in the country.
Irish Minister for the Marine Simon Coveney is set to announce a €15.5m investment by companies in seafood processing, which is expected to create more than 140 jobs around the coastline.
A third fish farm in British Columbia, Canada, has been put under quarantine by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), after a virus that affects farmed salmon was identified on a farm owned by Mainstream Canada.
New proposals requiring food businesses such as restaurants, takeaways and supermarkets in Wales to display food hygiene ratings at their premises, are outlined today by the Welsh Government as it introduces its Food Hygiene Rating Bill.
The Food Standards Agency saw an increase in the number of food incidents it investigated last year. These included reports of contaminated or illegal food entering the food chain, with some potentially harmful to the public.
Hocean, Inc. of Commerce City, CA is recalling all Nitre Powder, a kind of curing salt, that has the potential to be contaminated with higher levels of sodium nitrite.
L.A. Link Corp. of of Cerritos, CA is recalling dried shitake mushrooms sold at Costco Wholesale locations in Washington, Oregon and California because they may be contaminated with chemical residues not approved for dried mushrooms.
Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) is organising Annapoorna - World of Food India from September 26-28, 2012 at Bombay Exhibition Centre, Mumbai, India.
