Cadbury chief executive Todd Stitzer overnight (16 September) defended the UK confectioner’s record, insisting the company had “delivered on its promises” and laid out its plans for further...

Kirin Holdings and Suntory have sought approval from the competition watchdog in Japan for their merger plan despite being yet to announce a final agreement on a deal, according to reports from Japan. The...

Research from Whole Foods Market, the leading American organic foods supermarket, has discovered that around two-thirds of consumers have altered their cooking and eating habits as a result of the economic...

Nestlé hopes to boost sales of its impulse lines by launching price-marked packs for a limited period in the UK. The company has added GBP0.29 (A$0.57) price marks to Smarties, Hexatube, Milkybar, Milkybar...

Scarcity of natural resources will leave the consumer industry exposed to higher and more volatile pricing in little more than a decade. By 2020 it is estimated there will be one billion more consumers...

Consumers are relying on restaurants to provide value in hamburgers through premiumisation, with a new report highlighting the burger attributes most important to consumers. According US-based foodservice...

The price of fresh food could be reduced if innovative work at The University of Manchester to develop intelligent low-cost sensors is successful. Scientists and engineers at The Syngenta Sensors University...

A letter sent by Cadbury Chairman Roger Carr has further highlighted Cadbury’s lack of interest in the current multi-billion proposal put forward by Kraft. Last week, the markets were buzzing with...

Nestlé, the world’s largest food manufacturer, has threatened to move their home base away from Switzerland if the country places a cap on executive salaries.”It would be the beginning of...

A recent report by the French Agency for Food Safety (AFSSA) has suggested that organic foods are more nutritious just a month after a UK report argued there was currently little evidence to indicate that...