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McDonald's is looking to one of its high-profile British executives, 48-year-old Steve Easterbrook who will become its new CEO on March 1, to do again what he did in his home country for the world's largest restaurant chain — this time on a...
No one wants their food to be ‘manufactured’ – and unsurprisingly that’s a challenge for those in the food manufacturing business - so comments Waitrose executive development chef, Jonathan Moore, in an interview with FoodNavigator.com.
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Five or ten years ago, Hershey's recent announcement that it will acquire a maker of jerky snacks might have seemed a little odd, if not downright weird. But as America is in the midst of a dried-meat explosion, buying Krave Pure Foods might be the...
Chocolate maker, Hershey, is making a move outside the candy aisle with an agreement to buy Krave, which makes beef jerky and other high-protein snacks. The reason: meat snacks is an estimated $2.5 billion opportunity in the US, and a category that's growing at a...
Parmalat South Africa has apparently been very busy - with several new products launched recently, including bringing some of its international brands to the country.
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Breakfast cereals have traditionally had a fairly healthy image, despite the proliferation of relatively high-sugar products in some parts of the market. Three-quarters of the breakfast cereal launches recorded by Innova Market Insights over the 12 months to the end of October 2014 had a...
In the world of business, you know you've got it made when the Financial Times puts together a splashy profile of you and your business. And that's the happy position that Robbie Brozin found himself in recently when the FT published a long interview with...
Although a big trend in Europe and more recently in the US, the habit of eating biscuits for breakfast is new to South Africans. No more, perhaps! Bakers, in National Brands' stable, is jumping on this wagon - and trumping Mondelez, a key rival that...
Popcorn – long dismissed as a mature and rather boring packaged food category with minimal growth potential – has burst back to life. The American resurgence [and elsewhere] is not in the mainstream microwave popcorn market or movie bucket sector, but in the pre-popped, ready-to-eat...
WikiPearls, a future food packaging concept, have been around for a few years now and have deservedly garnered much media coverage and innovation awards. The latest is a citation by Time Magazine as one of the best inventions of 2014.
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It surely started as a one-man experiment, and evolved into something of a social media joke - but Soylent, the Los Angeles start-up that makes a powdery meal replacement with a sweeping nutritional composition, has just raised $20-million in additional venture capital, the company announced...
More South Africans will soon get to experience a trendy, new, fast-but-personalised restaurant concept, now that the Spur Corporation is set to acquire the majority stake in RocoMamas.
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What food trends will be big in 2015? It's that time of year again when magazines are filled with personal horoscopes and predictions on what the New Year will hold. But predicting future trends can...
Food labels seem to provide all the information a thoughtful consumer needs, so counting calories should be simple. But things get tricky because food labels tell only half the story. A calorie is a measure of usable energy. Food labels say how many calories a...
Bisphenol A (BPA) poses no health risk to consumers of any age group, according to the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).
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If you had but one New Year's resolution to keep, maybe it should be to get up and move a little more. Yet another study shows that a sedentary lifestyle is the 'new smoking'.
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With "fresh" and "healthy" emerging as food industry buzz words, it's easy to wonder if frozen foods — which almost inherently fail to conjure up associations with either fresh or healthy products — still appeal to the majority of American consumers. They do, says a...
Rhodes Food Group, which has launched several interesting packaing innovations in recent years, has introduced a convenient plastic packaging option for its jam products.
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Since he became the head of R&D about seven years ago, Dr Mehmood Khan has led what many at PepsiCo refer to as an R&D transformation. Evidence of his transformative thinking is abundant in packaging, as he believes that packaging now more than ever must be...
"The theory that blood cholesterol and a high fat diet are the causes of heart disease will be one of the greatest errors in the history of medicine." With a statement like this it's no wonder that Prof Tim Noakes has been heavily criticised for...