chocolate
SHELF-LIFE: Weekly round-up
Here is your weekly round-up of shelf-life news. If you have a news item you would like to submit for next week’s round-up, please contact Carly Wood at carly@bellpublishing.com.
Deck the cakes
For Christmas 2014 Dawn Foods has added to its Christmas decoration range to add fun, sparkle and colour to cakes and bakes throughout the festive season. Featuring holly leaves, stars, Santa’s hats, snowmen, Christmas trees and white chocolate sprinkle stars, the individual edible decorations are an easy way for retail bakers and caterers to create […]
Complete range
Frozen ready meal company Classic Cuisine’s new festive range includes traditional festive favourites as well as seafood, vegetarian and free-from options. The range includes the turkey tornedo, with turkey wrapped in crispy streaky bacon, topped with a cranberry and orange stuffing and finished with a cinnamon jus; the smoked salmon roulade, a light suet pastry […]
New flavours
Divine Chocolate has announced two new limited edition additions to its range of 100g bars. The Divine Dark Chocolate with Pear & Ginger and the Milk Chocolate with Spiced Toffee Apple have been created especially for the Christmas period. Made with Fairtrade cocoa from Kuapa Kokoo in Ghana, the co-operative that owns 45% of Divine, […]
PROCESSING: Weekly round-up
Here is your weekly round-up of processing news. If you have a news item you would like to submit for next week’s round-up, please contact Carly Wood at carly@bellpublishing.com. Festo has developed a new pneumatic conveyor concept – the WaveHandler – for the transportation and simultaneous sorting of delicate objects. UK-based Moo Free Limited, a […]
’emphasis on food safety’
Unitherm Food Systems’ new CEO Mark Smith predicts continued growth in the consumption of pre-cooked and packaged foods as disposable incomes rise in developing economies around the world.
Barry Callebaut Sustainability Report 2013/14
The Barry Callebaut Group, manufacturer of chocolate and cocoa products, has announced the publication of its Cocoa Sustainability Report 2013/14. The report illustrates the company’s initiatives to improve the livelihoods of cocoa farmers through sustainable cocoa farming practices and to address the basic health and education needs of cocoa communities. “With ongoing challenges in cocoa […]
INGREDIENTS: Weekly round-up
Here is your weekly round-up of ingredients news. If you have a news item you would like to submit for next week’s round-up, please contact Carly Wood at carly@bellpublishing.com. DSM has published a Global Insight paper, stating that consumers demand dairy products such as yogurt prepared with simple and familiar ingredients Premium Ingredients is presenting […]
Stabilisers for chocolate milk
Premium Ingredients is presenting two new stabilisers for chocolate milk: Premigum XLB-13059 and Premitex XLB-14022. Premigum XLB-13059 allows for an important cost saving by reducing milk powder content and is specially designed for recombined UHT chocolate milk applications. It also allows for an improved mouth feel and creamy texture. This stabiliser guarantees an efficient suspension […]
£530,000 funding for Moo Free
UK-based Moo Free Limited is to invest in new machinery and increase staff by 20% following £530,000 in funding from Santander Corporate & Commercial.
FDF Awards winners revealed
On Thursday 18 September, outstanding individuals, ambitious initiatives and growing food and drink businesses were recognised for their contribution to the economy, community and environment at the Food and Drink Federation (FDF) Awards. TV and radio newscaster Katie Derham presented winners with their trophies at an award held at London’s The Brewery in the UK. […]
‘Leading by example’
Alice Cadman was recently appointed head of business development and marketing at Leatherhead Food Research. Here, she explains why the food industry must continue to improve its understanding of the more distant and less sustainable aspects of the food supply chain…
Cracking the nuts market
EHL Ingredients is experiencing a boost in sales of nuts in the run up to National Nut Day. The celebratory day, dedicated to the taste, versatility and nutritious value of nuts, will be held on 22 October. EHL Ingredients supplies 22 types of nuts including brazil, almonds, walnuts, cashew, hazelnuts, pecans, peanuts, pistachios and pine […]
Robot palletising system
Barry Callebaut, manufacturer of cocoa and chocolate products, has installed a robotic palletising system at its Banbury plant as part of a three-phase investment in the palletising area. CKF Systems of Gloucester was commissioned to design, build and install the system. “We were impressed by work CKF had recently undertaken for a major confectionery brand,” […]