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The French multinational aims to fix its business model in post-Covid landscape as new products and bottled water sales plunge.
As 2020 winds down, food and beverage industry observers are forecasting what trends will drive change in 2021. America's trend-setting Whole Foods Market has released its predictions of ten trends that will matter in 2021.
The plant-based food trend is an over-arching movement around the world - and now Germany's Hydrosol has taken a massive step to serve this market with the launch of a new company, Planteneers – The Plant Based Pioneers.
While SPAR has so far topped its peers in the listed sector in terms of performance this troubled year, it’s an unlisted company that is showing the most growth right now.
Every year, C&EN (Chemical and Engineering News, the website/journal of the American Chemical Society) highlights 10 start-ups developing potentially world-changing chemistry innovations. And while 2020 has felt unlike any other year, the drive of science-based entrepreneurs to bring technologies that benefit people, the environment, and the economy to market hasn’t changed.
Red is set to shake up the food and beverage industry in 2021 thanks to its ability to spark powerful emotions, according to the GNT Group, supplier of EXBERRY food colourants.
Three years after buying a minority stake in Kind Snacks – and launching Kind International – Mars has acquired the privately held bar and snacks company, a deal estimated to be worth $5-billion.
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Less than a week after the vaccine news from Pfizer, the US food and beverage industry is not wasting any time asking to be on the priority list for whenever one is made available.
Authoritative London-based trends think-tank, New Nutrition Business, has released its annual Ten Key Trends report for 2021. Here are some trend insights from this brilliantly perceptive and practical document.
Here's an interesting food waste upcycling story - the crafting of enviro-friendly, single-serve take-out food packaging via processing discarded pineapple crowns.
With sincere sadness, Symrise has announced the tragic passing of Miguel Pereira, commercial director Flavor at Symrise sub-Saharan Africa.
Now this is an apt solution for the African market! Swedish fats & oil company, AAK, has developed ILLEXAO, a range of fats suitable for making a ‘super compound’ that can seamlessly replace up to 100% of the free cocoa butter in a chocolate recipe.
Healthy living and wellbeing trends have been around for several years, but the definition of what health actually means has changed consumer priorities and needs, especially during the global pandemic. Enjoy this FREE Euromonitor on-demand webinar!
The global retail sector is in an unprecedented state of flux and as the end of the year approaches, Nielsen has identified a range of evolving consumer groups as well as four Holiday/Festive consumer behavioural resets related to this crucial holiday period.
Nestlé CEO Mark Schneider methodically puts health at the forefront of his consumption, and is doing the same for the giant food group he heads.
If you have ever been to Japan, you might have seen plastic models of food in the windows of restaurants, displaying the edible counterparts that lie within. These are called ‘sampuru’ or ‘sample’ and have been part of the Japanese economy and food culture for nearly one hundred years.
It seems intuitive for dairy-free yoghurt products to be plant-based, but here's an unusual new entrant into the category – eggs.
The European Parliament voted last week on the divisive issue of labelling faux meat products with meat-like names. Farmer lobbyists argued no. Environmentalists said yes.
Covid and lockdown have elicited much business rethink, with retail giant Woolworths announcing it's aiming for a bigger share of South Africa’s lucrative fresh food and grocery market, by committing “to invest R1 billion in its prices” over the next two-to-three years – 75% of which will go into lowering food prices.