Ingredients
Cadbury to close Bristol factory
Cadbury Trebor Bassett is to restructure its chocolate manufacturing production. The phased closure of the Keynsham chocolate factory in Bristol will affect 500 employees. Chocolate production will move to Bournville, Birmingham and Poland. The Bournville site is to receive an additional £40 million investment although an additional 200 jobs will also be lost. The investment, […]
Diet soft drinks reach record levels
Consumers are increasingly enjoying soft drinks whilst watching the calories, as revealed by the latest figures for the UK soft drinks market. Diet and low calorie drinks and drinks without added sugar have reached a record market share of 61%. Twenty years ago, the market share of these drinks was only 28%. The fastest growing […]
Supreme award for Speyside organic whisky
The first bottled single malt to be fully certified by The Soil Association has won the supreme title in the 2007 Scottish Food and Drink Excellence Awards. The awards, now in their sixth year, are organised jointly by the Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland and Scottish Food and Drink in association with Scottish […]
NUTRA NEWS: BI Nutraceuticals adds super fruit extracts
BI Nutraceuticals, supplier of quality raw materials and custom blends for 30 years, has introduced acai and goji berry powder extracts for beverage applications. The new ingredients are all-natural extracts derived from not only the fruit of the berries, but the peel, where a majority of the beneficial nutrients are contained. “Demand for super fruit […]
Potatoes set to go upmarket
Branston Ltd, the UK’s leading supplier of quality fresh potatoes, has launched The Real Potato Co, an innovative direct to consumer brand set to shake up the UK potato category with its range of new varieties. The Real Potato Co will initially launch within 250 Tesco stores around the country with two exclusive varieties of […]
Britvic bounces back to form
Britvic has out-performed the soft drinks market in both stills and carbonates with strong total branded revenue growth, up 9.3% to £353.6m. Stills showed continued good growth with revenues up 8.5%, driven by a strong performance from Britvic’s leading brands such as the success of Fruit Shoot H2O, which further strengthened its position as the […]
NUTRA NEWS: Lutein awareness growth
Lutein and Health Awareness, a study commissioned by Kemin Health Europe, has revealed that lutein awareness has reached a new record level of 28%, with an impressive peak of 39% in Portugal, which doubled last year’s results on the same study. This year’s survey also reveals very marked lutein awareness levels in Germany of 37%, […]
NEW PRODUCTS: In search of the perfect apple
Eager fruit juice was founded by Ed Rigg in June 2005 targeting the 18-35 year old market via a network of bars, clubs and pubs. T Today the brand is selling to 150 on-trade establishments around the UK, a number that is constantly growing. The ethos behind Eager fruit juice is to produce an alternative, […]
Danone sells stake in Griesson
French food giant has sold its 40% stake in German biscuit and cake products maker Griesson de Beukelaer. The company’s Heinz Gries and CEO Andreas Land are now its only owners with 95% of Griesson de Beukelaer’s shares being owned by the Gries family, while Land holds the remaining 5%. The move is in keeping […]
Beef exports hit £100 million
British beef is back with a £100 million bang. In its first year back on international markets, beef exports from the UK have hit 60,000 tonnes in the first year – double the original 30,000 tonne estimate from the Meat and Livestock Commission. Of that figure over 70 per cent of the beef – around […]
Tate & Lyle buys Hahn
Tate & Lyle, the global renewable ingredients company has acquired an 80% holding in German specialty food ingredients group G. C. Hahn & Co for £79 million (£116 million). Hahn is privately owned and was founded in 1848. Its headquarters and primary operations are located in Lübeck, Germany. It also has production operations in the […]
NUTRA NEWS: Provexis and Unilever join forces to develop heart health foods
Provexis, developer of scientifically-proven functional and medical foods, has entered into a long-term collaboration agreement with Unilever to develop a new format of its patented Fruitflow heart-health technology. Fruitflow is a patented natural extract from tomato which has been shown in human trials to reduce the propensity for aberrant blood clotting, typically associated with cardiovascular […]
NUTRA NEWS: Fully functional omega-3
Frutarom has launched omega-3 preparations for dairy products. The latest technology incorporates the health-promoting fatty acids into recipes without imparting any unpleasant aftertaste. Essential omega-3 fatty acids have long been added to a wide variety of foods – yet their processing remains a great challenge for the manufacturer. This is because commercially available isolated omega-3 […]
NUTRA NEWS: DTI grant awarded to functional ingredients firm
A UK-based company has been awarded an innovation grant by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) to fund its joint project worth £243,000 with the world-famous Institute of Food Research (IFR). Coressence, which is developing ingredients for the functional foods industry containing health giving nutrients from its own specially selected fruit varieties, has been […]