British-based baked goods and snacks giant United Biscuits, producer of McVities, Carr’s, Jaffa Cakes, McCoy’s and Phileas Fogg, is rumoured to be next for the hammer, with UK news outlets...

UK retailer Tesco has withdrawn an advertisement claiming its bread is baked from scratch in-store following a complaint by the Real Bread Campaign (RBC). The complaint, which was upheld by the UK’s...

Belgium-based retailer Delhaize refused to be drawn on whether it would bid for parts of Aldi’s estate in Greece, which the German discount giant is looking to offload.Delhaize, which owns the Alfa-Beta...

The Food Standards Agency, the UK food watchdog, will lose its remit over nutrition and labelling after the coalition government confirmed it would revamp the agency.The UK’s Department of Health...

UK-based online retailer Edible has made a specialty out of unusual and sometimes daunting foods, specialising in unusal delicacies and weird epicurean delights. Featuring departments for insects, aphrodisiacs,...

New Zealand dairy has drawn attention from international buyers, with Singapore-based agribusiness and food ingredients group Olam International making a takeover bid for NZ Farming Systems Uruguay, and...

Anglo-Dutch consumer goods giant Unilever yesterday confirmed the sale of its Findus Italy business to frozen-foods group Birds Eye Iglo in a deal worth EUR805 million (A$1.2 billion). Unilever said it...

UK supermarket chain Waitrose is planning a sixfold increase in the number of stores that stock its food products, and is aiming to nearly double the number of outlets it operates within five years. According...

At Sunday morning’s keynote session of the 2010 Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) Annual Meeting & Food Expo®, incoming IFT President Bob Gravani and President-Elect Roger Clemens announced...

Delhaize has announced that its US banners will operate under a new sustainable seafood sourcing programme.The Belgian retailer’s Hannaford, Sweetbay, Bottom Dollar Food and Food Lion family of banners...