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Italian chocolate group Ferrero has agreed to buy smaller UK rival, Thorntons, in the latest cross-border deal by the once acquisition-shy maker of Kinder candy and Nutella spread.
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Nestlé Purina PetCare brand Friskies has launched Pull ‘n Play, the world’s first tender edible strings for cats, in North America.
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Marks & Spencer (M&S) has announced all of its bread is to be made using yeast fortified with vitamin D.
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The "noughties" was very much the decade in which functional food rose to prominence. Subtle shifts in formulation and marketing began to emphasise what was added rather than reduced. Conventional wisdom is that consumers cannot get enough of fortification, but is that really the case,...
The iconic American Hershey milk chocolate bar is getting a makeover after 120 years. The confectionery giant is undergoing a multi-year plan to overhaul all of its products which will ultimately contain "simple and easy-to-understand" ingredients.
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A recent ruling by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) - largely SA consumers only point of effective redress despite the Consumper Protection Act - has uncovered another example of 'shrinkflation' so prevalent in the confectionery aisles.
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Earlier this month, Unilever South Africa opened the R511-million expansion at its state-of-the-art Indonsa factory in Durban, making it the group's largest savoury factory by volume. The plant was only commissioned three years ago in December 2011.
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American food giant, General Mills, will strip artificial flavours and colours from the remaining 40% of its cereals that still contain them, the latest response by the US food industry to changing customer preferences.
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A study published in JAMA Internal Medicine shows that escalation in the number of those considered obese or overweight in the United States continues, signaling an ongoing upward swing in chronic health conditions as well.
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Nestlé will destroy 400 million packets of its hugely popular Maggi noodles, following a ban imposed by India's food safety regulator. The 'Maggi-gate' saga is one thing, a massive thing for Nestlé, but this article argues that excess lead exposure from many sources is a...
Partially hydrogenated oils, those universally despised sources of trans fat, have finally been more or less banned by the FDA. This is less newsworthy than it first appears, though: manufacturers have been phasing them out for a while and they only remain in a handful...
Five years ago, Nestlé announced its bold expansion plan for the sub-saharan Africa region. Now, in 2015, the tune has changed and Nestlé wants to scale down. Was this a misguided strategy, debates this article?
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Consumers worldwide remain overwhelmingly positive about the goodness of milk, understand its nutritional value, but feel variety and convenience are not keeping pace with modern lifestyles and expectations, is a key finding of Tetra Pak's eighth Dairy Index report published June 17.
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Plans by the world's biggest food and drinks company, Nestlé, to reduce staff across the continent will not affect SA, its Bryanston-based unit has said.
...Clover has got the green light from the competition authorities to acquire the fresh dairy business of Nkunzi Milkyway, allowing SA’s biggest dairy distributor to manufacture and pack Ayrshire organic milk and dairy products, including lactose-free yoghurt, for Woolworths. The approval was made in late...
The practice unfolds largely the same across all industries: A larger, more established company swoops in to acquire a smaller, fast-growing company while costs are still low and before the smaller brand reaches its peak. These acquisitions are commonplace in food and beverage.
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The obsession with eating natural and artisanal is ahistorical. We should demand more high-quality industrial food, argues Rachel Laudan, a historian and philosopher of science and technology and author of Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History. [This astonishingly fine essay, a plea for culinary...
Sauce manufacturer, Afoodable, a division of Lake Foods, has officially opened a new plant in the food production hub of Montague Gardens, Cape Town. This state-of-the art facility will enhance Afoodable's ability to tailor-make solutions for its customers in the sauces and marinade sectors.
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Why does MSG still have the ability to strike fear into the hearts of otherwise rational people? This article puts to bed the myth of terror around monosodium glutamate.
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The Irish economist, Cormac Ó Gráda, has written a rarity: a coolly rational, cautiously cheerful book about the most viscerally upsetting subject imaginable, mass death from hunger. It looks at the political economy of mass starvation, and why it is largely a thing of...