Kraft Foods’ largest shareholder Warren Buffett has labelled the company’s proposed acquisition of Cadbury a “bad deal” in a withering attack on US television. Billionaire Buffett,...

Kraft Foods and Cadbury have reached an amicable takeover agreement overnight that is now only pending shareholder approval in the absence of a counterbid from potential suitor Hershey. In a change of...

Chocolate maker Lindt & Sprüngli saw sales fall 1.9 per cent in 2009 during “an extremely difficult market environment for premium products”.Organic growth of 2.3% was realised in local...

The Agriculture Council of the European Union is looking at ways to improve the food supply chain to ensure value is more evenly distributed across the chain and food price fluctuations are not as severe. Speaking...

After two weeks, blockades continue at the Belgian breweries of the world’s largest brewer – with still no agreement in sight. Two hundred and sixty-three jobs were cut from Anheuser-Busch...

The US Department of Health and Human Services has said further research is required into the potential health impact of using bisphenol-A in food packaging. According to an announcement on Friday (15...

Online grocery sales are set to surge if forecasts from the UK are on the money, with researchers predicting the next five years will see sales almost double to £7.2bn (A$12.9b). In 2009, 13% of adults...

Sources close to the ongoing Kraft-Cadbury takeover saga have reported that the two parties may come to an amicable agreement, something that would come as a shock given Cadbury’s obvious disapproval...

The world’s largest confectioner, Mars, has announced what it believes is an industry-first in the UK with a 15% reduction of saturated fat in their core products. “Mars Chocolate UK has today...

Price-fixing scandals in the food industry are seemingly popping up all across Europe with Germany’s competition authority the latest to issue an investigation into alleged price-fixing amongst food...