US food giant ConAgra Foods  announced on Monday that it has bought Elan Nutrition, a formulator and manufacturer of snack and nutrition bars, from private-equity firm Sun Capital Partners. Financial...

You may think otherwise but there is optimism in organic at the moment.After the recession whacked organic sales of the UK (down almost 13% last year), you would have thought there would have been a downbeat...

Tetra Pak yesterday opened its new Tetra Pak Technology Centre in Pudong, Shanghai. The Centre, which brings together resources from product development and engineering, technical service, training, sourcing...

Roberto Reniero, Head of Casa Buitoni, tells us about the R&D centre and how Nestlé combines Italian and Mediterranean food traditions with contemporary know-how in nutrition and well-being. What...

In today’s highly competitive, saturated, and dynamic food market, innovation is unquestionably a major factor in successfully responding to and anticipating changing market conditions and consumers’...

The German born chef behind Brisbane-based King of Cakes is planning to expand his growing empire into the first franchise chain of its kind in Queensland.Master Pastry Chef Wolfgang Kelke, who recently...

Wal-Mart has launched a campaign to cut thousands of prices across its stores in the US as competition in the country’s retail sector heats up.The world’s largest retailer on Friday (9 April)...

Cadbury is studying the possible launch of a “cocoa house” concept that would see it establish branded outlets that compete with high street coffee shops in the UK. The company, which was...

Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market, the US unit of Tesco, this week launched Eatwell, a new line of more nutritious products. All eatwell products contain no more than 25% of the daily values (based...

Diversified food company Freedom National Products Limited (FNP) and A2 Corporation Limited(A2C) – the company that owns and commercialises intellectual property that enables the identification of...