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Wild about exotic fruits
Capitalising on current consumer interest in exotic fruits, Wild has introduced a new product range. The four different varieties in the range include the African mix, with exotic marula and pink guava from; the Asian mix, featuring Alphonso mangos from India, with lychees, tamarinds and coconut water; a Caribbean medley of red grapefruit from Cuba […]
Cargill’s cash boost for farmers
Cargill’s cocoa and chocolate business has made the second of its annual sustainable certified cocoa premium payments to 26,500 farmers across 21 cooperatives in Côte d’Ivoire. The payments mark another step in its commitment to build a sustainable cocoa supply chain and support cocoa farmers, says the company. Over 50 per cent of the payments […]
Scientists discover natural preservative
Scientists have discovered a natural preservative that they say is capable of destroying bacteria, including E.coli and listeria, and could spell the end for rotting food. There would also be no need to refrigerate produce treated with the preservative, called bisin. Ready meals, opened wine and fresh salad dressing could also be safely consumed long […]
Summit Foods in peak shape
UK foodservice, retail and food manufacturing supplier Summit Foods is celebrating 30 years in business with a major expansion programme. The Lancashire-based supplier of cooked meat based products was founded in 1981 and is now a family-run business owned and managed by husband and wife team Dean and Vanessa Lewis. To coincide with its 30th […]
M&J reports growth in gurnard sales
The volume of sales of alternative fish gurnard are on the rise, according to new figures from foodservice supplier M&J Seafood. The fish and seafood company says its sales of gurnard have risen by 62% year on year, amid increasing awareness of alternative species among chefs and restaurateurs. “We’ve been promoting the use of under-utilised […]
Linde launches new oxygenation technology
Linde Gases has announced the launch of Solvox OxyStream – a low-pressure oxygenation system that it says helps significantly increase fish production volume, optimise fish meat quality and improve operations from an environmental standpoint. With the trend of moving aquaculture production from sea cages to land-based sites for the full duration of the fish’s lifecycle, […]
Food sector manufacturing on the up
The UK food and drink industry has bucked the general trend of declining manufacturing output with a 0.5% increase in June 2011 compared to the same month in 2010, according to new figures. The Office for National Statistics results published this week show that while food and drink production output increased, the figures are in […]
Neogen expands seafood safety test range
Neogen Europe says it has added to its range of tests for the seafood industry with the introduction of a rapid test to detect the okadaic acid group of toxins – which can occur naturally in shellfish but have been shown to cause diarrhetic shellfish poisoning (DSP) in humans. Neogen’s new Reveal for DSP is […]
Bubbly results for soft drinks firm
Soft drinks group Nichols – whose products include Vimto, Sunkist and Ben Shaws – has revealed ‘excellent results’ for the interim period ended 30 June 2011. The figures reveal group sales up 14.4%, with pre-tax profit up 20.4%, and both UK and international sales were up 13%. “I am delighted to be announcing such excellent […]
Innophos announces Chinese investment
Innophos, the name behind CalRise and a producer of speciality phosphate products for food and beverage applications, has announced the formation of a new Chinese subsidiary, Innophos (Taicang) Food Ingredients Manufacturing Company. The subsidiary, which was organised as a ‘wholly foreign owned enterprise’ in April, is expected to be fully operational in the third quarter […]
Snowbird in ‘single source’ sausage relaunch
Snowbird foods is relaunching its Gourmet range of sausages using outdoor bred, single source pig meat to ‘guarantee high quality, absolute consistency and total traceability’. According to the London-based firm, it’s the first time such a scheme has been undertaken in the UK by a manufacturer of fully cooked and frozen sausages A specific breed […]
Kraft to split into two companies
Eighteen months after buying Cadbury, Kraft Foods has announced that it is to split into two companies by separating its North American grocery business from its global snacks enterprise. “Eighteen months into the Cadbury integration, the company has, in fact, built a global snacking platform and a North American grocery business that now differ in […]
Carrier bag slump continues
Latest figures from the UK government waste body WRAP reveal that the number of carrier bags being used by shoppers remains dramatically lower than five years ago. The British Retail Consortium has described the figures as encouraging in the context of rising sales and changing shopping habits. For the UK as a whole, 40 per […]
New PTS system for major meat supplier
Savoye, the global warehouse integrator of logistics and IT systems, has signed a deal to deploy its PTS (Picking Tray System) order fulfilment solution to Kermené, a major meat supplier for French supermarket retailer E.Leclerc. The system will enable Kermené, which currently processes 170,000 tonnes of meat each year, to handle 5,000 boxes an hour. […]