Ebro Foods has seen its bid to buy Ricegrowers fall through, after the Spanish food maker failed to win over enough of the company’s investors. The results of a vote of Ricegrowers’ investors...

Consulting firm DMR Corporate has defended its claim that Ricegrowers is undervalued by as much as $100 million, after criticism from the rice processor’s chairman. Ricegrowers shareholders are set...

Parmalat, the Italian dairy processor and owner of Australian dairy brand Paul’s, has turned down a bid from largest shareholder and French dairy giant Lactalis to buy the whole of the business. The...

Lactalis has received the approval of Italy’s stock market regulator CONSOB for the French dairy giant’s takeover bid for local rival Parmalat.The green light from the regulator is a boost...

By:  | 9 May 2011 Decrease font size Increase font size Comment on this article Email this to a friend Print this page Share this article Spanish food group SOS has confirmed today (9 May) that it plans...

Ricegrowers Ltd has released a scheme booklet for its shareholders, with the board unanimously recommending that they vote in favour of a takeover by Ebro at a shareholder meeting at the end of this month. The...

Nestlé today announced that it had signed a partnership agreement taking a 60% stake in the Chinese food company Yinlu Foods Group (Yinlu), subject to regulatory approval in China. Other details of the...

Kerry Group could spend up to EUR1.5bn (US$2.1bn) on acquisitions in 2011, the Irish food maker’s CFO has revealed – although he suggested the company would look at deals of “any size”...

Ebro Foods’ two planned acquisitions in the rice sector will be a “new step forward” for the Spanish food group, the company’s chairman and CEO has insisted. Antonio Hernandez Callejas...

SunRice announced on Friday that the Rice Marketing Board for the State of New South Wales, RMB, has agreed to extend the company’s exclusive export licence for another five years to 30 June 2016,...