World: Consumers would pay extra for ingredients they recognize
As many as 73% of consumers are happy to pay a higher retail price for a food or drink product made with ingredients they...
Asia Pacific: Taiwanese whisky company opens second plant
Double World Whiskies Awards (WWA) winner Kavalan celebrated 10 years of Taiwan-made whisky with the commissioning of its second distillery and the launch of...
Americas: Tyson Foods opens US$150M venture capital fund
Tyson Foods launches a venture capital fund to invest in companies developing breakthrough technologies, business models and products to sustainably feed a growing world...
Americas: More US consumers are eating at home, report
A confluence of squeezed consumer wallets, the rising cost of dining out, and changing needs and wants have brought the US restaurant industry traffic...
Middle East: US Slim Chickens expands in MENA
Fast-causal restaurant Slim Chickens expands its fresh chicken concept beyond the US through a master franchise agreement with Alghanim Industries, one of the largest...
Americas: Nestlé cuts sugar in products by 40% with same taste
Using only natural ingredients, Nestlé scientists have found a way to structure sugar differently.
So even when much less is used in chocolate, the tongue...
Asia Pacific: The Coca-Cola Company refranchises bottling operations in China
The Coca-Cola Company and its three main bottling groups in China - Coca-Cola Bottling Investments Group China (BIG), COFCO Coca-Cola Beverages Limited and Swire Beverages Holdings Limited (Swire) commemorated the...
Europe: Baby food range packed in convenient pots
Lovemade has chosen RPC Superfos’s injection molded SuperLock polypropylene pots for its new range of readymade organic baby foods in Sweden.
The eight varieties in...
Asia Pacific: Lactose-free milk powders debuts in China’s e-commerce space
Finnish dairy pioneer Valio has started exporting lactose-free milk powders to China, being the first in the market to do so.
The milk powders...
Americas: Spotlight on personalized nutrition in 2017
When a giant food company invests US$32 million in a start-up focusing on personalized nutrition – as Campbell’s recently has – 'personalization' has reached...