dairy
Carbery results boosted by ingredients division
Carbery Group increased revenues by 14.5 per cent last year, reflecting an underlying strong performance from the ingredients division, says the firm. The division includes flavour business Synergy, as well as the company’s dairy ingredients portfolio. “Synergy continues to grow in existing markets and establish itself in new ones with the acquisition of two new […]
Egg replacer sales set to double, says ingredients firm
Arla Foods Ingredients is forecasting a 100 per cent increase in sales of its egg replacers this year, as a result of egg shortages caused by new European animal welfare legislation. In 2011, the Denmark-based company – the ingredients division of dairy firm Arla Foods – helped to replace the equivalent of 20,000 tonnes of […]
New look for Yeo Valley
Yeo Valley, the British family-run dairy company, has unveiled a new look across its entire range and added a new premium line called Top Notch. The Yeo Valley range will feature a new logo and packaging design from early next month, with the new look designed to ‘illustrate the delicious Yeo Valley taste and reflect […]
TempTRIP system bears fruit
UK fresh fruit firm Blue Skies is using a time/temperature monitoring system from TempTRIP to help make sure that its products retain their quality as they travel from African fields to UK tables in as little as 48 hours. Blue Skies employs more than 2,000 people in Ghana, Egypt, South Africa and Brazil, and supplies […]
Coffee market chilled out
While the ready-to-drink or iced coffee market is relatively mature and showing only modest growth in much of Asia, levels of interest elsewhere in the world appear to be growing, according to Innova Market Insights. This is not only in the relatively well-established US market, which is the number two global market after Japan, but […]
New Tetra Pak PDC open for business
Food processing and packaging solutions firm Tetra Pak has announced the opening of a Product Development Centre (PDC) in Shanghai, China. The centre provides local dairy and beverage companies with the processing, packaging and powder handling equipment that will enable them to quickly and efficiently develop high quality products, says the company. “Part of Tetra […]
Lithuania dairy deal for Tetra Pak CPS
UK-based Tetra Pak CPS has designed and completed a one-off, specialist liquid food processing unit for a major dairy company in Lithuania. The whey heater/cooler is designed to heat acid whey before clarification and separation, followed by cooling before further treatment. The skid-mounted unit is part of an order won by the international Tetra Pak […]
Kerry confirms acquisition of Cargill’s global flavours business
Kerry Group, the global ingredients, flavours and consumer foods group, has confirmed that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Cargill’s global flavours business in a £149 million ($170m) deal. Cargill Flavor Systems has international flavour technology development expertise serving a global customer base through provision of flavour ingredients and flavour systems for beverage, […]
Superfruits continue to soar
A growing consumer awareness of the health benefits of so-called superfruits, and their high antioxidant content, has brought many hitherto little known fruits into the mainstream market for the first time. As a result, there has been a 10 per cent rise in the number of marketed on superfruit platform in the 12 months up […]
EFSA publishes latest article 13 opinions
EFSA has just published the fifth series of article 13 opinions, adding an additional 536 claims to the 2,187 claims published to date. A remaining group of 35 claims will be published in July. The European Commission and Member States will then consider EFSA’s scientific advice in deciding on the possible authorisation of such claims […]
TreattSweet ‘smoothes out sweetness profile’
Flavour and ingredients firm Treatt has launched TreattSweet, an ingredient it claims ‘improves the sweetness and transforms the flavour’ of products sweetened with Stevia and other sweeteners. This product is a blend of all-natural essences that imparts desirable flavour and mouthfeel, while smoothing out the sweetness profile and undesirable lingering characteristics associated with certain sweeteners, […]
IFT addresses sustainability challenge
Feeding an estimated nine billion people by the year 2050 will require a sustainable food system that makes the most of limited resources while protecting the world’s fragile ecosystem, according to a symposium at the 2011 Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) Annual Meeting & Food Expo. “What we do in the next 10 years will […]
Carbery reports strong results
Global food ingredients manufacturer Carbery Group reports a 22% rise in turnover in 2010, with revenues of £197 million (€224.3m). The group says it benefited from stronger consumer demand for nutritional-based food and beverages in key overseas markets, continued recovery of global dairy prices in 2010 and successful positioning in new regions. “Carbery Group’s performance […]
Microflakes ‘designed to deliver chocolate flavour and colour’
ADM Cocoa International has launched deZaan Chocolate Microflakes, which it says will allow manufacturers ‘to capture the indulgence of real chocolate in a convenient, dispersible powder form’. The microflakes have been designed to deliver the flavour and colour of real chocolate to ice creams, dairy desserts, drinks and confiseur chocolates. “Formulated to disperse and dissolve […]