Americas: Campbell Soup to buy organic food producer
Campbell Soup Company will acquire Pacific Foods of Oregon for US$700 million in cash.
Founded in 1987, Pacific Foods produces organic broth and soup, shelf-stable...
Americas: Sonoco’s berries package wins award
Dole GO Berries!, which utilizes Sonoco’s packaging, was awarded Best New Packaging as part of the Produce Innovation Awards at United Fresh 2017, an...
Americas: Orbis releases flame-retardant material for plastic pallets
Orbis Corporation launches Proliant, a fire-retardant plastic material for use in select plastic pallets.
It is approved by Factory Mutual Research Corporation (FM) in meeting...
Americas: Guar manufacturing process aids FSMA compliance
TIC Gums has released US-produced GuarNT USA that complies with two Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) aspects - Foreign Supplier Verification Program and Preventive...
Americas: Corbion’s polymer additives get Halal, Kosher certification
Corbion has been awarded halal and kosher certification for variants of its Pationic polymer additives product line.
Part of an extensive range, the portfolio...
Americas: Waters unveils software to detect food fraud
Waters Corporation introduces its new LiveID Software for near-instantaneous, direct-from-sample measurement and classification of food products including meat and crops by Waters’ quadrupole, time-of-flight...
Americas: PepsiCo incubates 8 brands
PepsiCo says eight emerging nutrition, health and wellness brands will join its first collaborative incubator program in Europe.
Designed to support nutrition food and...
Americas: Cargill Salt opens factory
Cargill’s investment comes as the US Food and Drug Administration continues to recommend lower levels of sodium in the nation’s commercially processed, packaged and...
Americas: ADM subsidiary expands facility
Golden Peanut and Tree Nuts, a subsidiary of Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM), is investing in its third expansion project at the company’s production...
Americas: Amazon to acquire Whole Foods Market
Under a definitive merger agreement under which Amazon will acquire Whole Foods Market for US$42 per share in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately...