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Findus to Restructure Debt

    Findus to Restructure Debt

Frozen foods manufacturer Findus is reported to be renegotiating over £700 million of loans with its banks and other creditors. High interest payments impacted on operating profits in its 2010

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Barentz Expands its UK Presence

Netherlands-based ingredients supplier Barentz Europe has acquired Forum Products of  the UK. The deal significantly expands Barentz’s market presence in the UK, adding a strong ingredient distributor position in the

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Improving But Fragile Outlook for EU Meat Industry

    Improving But Fragile Outlook for EU Meat Industry

The outlook for the EU meat industry in 2012 will be positive for most players, although significant differences exist between the sectors and the various positions along the value chain,

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Premier Foods Completes Disposal of Brookes Avana

    Premier Foods Completes Disposal of Brookes Avana

Premier Foods has completed the disposal of its loss-making Brookes Avana business, comprising RF Brookes chilled foods and Avana Bakeries, to 2 Sisters Food Group for £30 million in cash.

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New Year Dieting Dilemma for British Consumers

    New Year Dieting Dilemma for British Consumers

Despite having the resolve to lose weight, British consumers may not know how to go about it, reveals new research from Mintel. Indeed, just six in 10 (61) UK consumers

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Vion Food Group Expands North American Ingredients Business

    Vion Food Group Expands North American Ingredients Business

The Netherlands-based Vion Food Group has strengthened its ingredients business with the acquisition of Eastman Gel in the US from the Eastman Kodak Company for an undisclosed amount. Eastman Gel

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Kraft Foods to Invest £6 Million in New Cadbury Packaging

    Kraft Foods to Invest £6 Million in New Cadbury Packaging

Kraft Foods UK is to invest £6 million in new a shelf-ready packaging format for its Cadbury range of chocolate bars, enabling the product to stand upright in order to

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Agthia Group Acquires Water Company in Turkey

    Agthia Group Acquires Water Company in Turkey

In line with its geographic expansion strategy, Agthia Group, one of the leading food and beverage companies in the UAE, has acquired Pelit Su, the Turkey-based spring water company. Pelit

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Unilever Completes Acquisition of Ingman Ice Cream

    Unilever Completes Acquisition of Ingman Ice Cream

Unilever has completed the acquisition of Ingman Ice Cream. The deal further strengthens Unilever’s competitive position in ice cream and is hghly complementary to Unilever’s existing portfolio of strong brands

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Profit Warning From Thorntons

    Profit Warning From Thorntons

Thorntons, the UK confectionery manufacturer and retailer, has warned that profits for its full year will fall short of expectations. Citing continued weakness in consumer sentiment and high levels of

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Revenue Sales Fall by £2.2 billion in UK Beer Market

    Revenue Sales Fall by £2.2 billion in UK Beer Market

Hindered by the decline of pub drinking and a lack of broader consumer appeal beyond men, the UK beer market has seen a huge fall from grace in the past

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Greencore Group Seeks UK Stock Market Listing

    Greencore Group Seeks UK Stock Market Listing

Greencore, the Dublin-based international convenience food producer, is seeking a listing on the London Stock Exchange. The move reflects the fact that despite its Irish origins Greencore now has the

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Total Produce Acquires 50% of Leading Dutch Fresh Produce Company

    Total Produce Acquires 50% of Leading Dutch Fresh Produce Company

Total Produce plc, Europe’s leading fresh produce company, is to acquire 50% of Frankort & Koning Beheer Venlo and subsidiaries for up to Eur15 million. Headquartered inVenlo, the Netherlands, Frankort &

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Coca-Cola and Partners to Develop Commercial Solutions for Plastic Bottles Made From Plants

    Coca-Cola and Partners to Develop Commercial Solutions for Plastic Bottles Made From Plants

The Coca-Cola Company has entered a multi-million dollar partnership with three leading biotechnology companies to accelerate development of the first commercial solutions for next-generation PlantBottle packaging made 100% from plant-based

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Cloetta and Leaf Merge to Become a Nordic Confectionery Leader

    Cloetta and Leaf Merge to Become a Nordic Confectionery Leader

Swedish confectionery companies Cloetta  and Leaf are being  merged. The combined company will take the well established name of Cloetta and become a leading Swedish confectionery company with a strong

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Construction Starts on €60 Million FrieslandCampina Innovation Centre

    Construction Starts on €60 Million FrieslandCampina Innovation Centre

International dairy co-operative FrieslandCampina has commenced construction of its new Innovation Centre in Wageningen in The Netherlands. The new building is due for completion in mid-2013. Property developer Hurks and

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United Biscuits to be Split Up

    United Biscuits to be Split Up

Private equity firms Blackstone Group and PAI Partners are reported to be considering splitting their United Biscuits business into two elements – one centred on biscuits and the other on

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UK Food Chain Unites to Uncover Salt Reduction Solutions

    UK Food Chain Unites to Uncover Salt Reduction Solutions

The Food and Drink Federation (FDF) in the UK and the British Retail Consortium (BRC) have partnered with Leatherhead Food Research to fund and deliver a comprehensive report on salt

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Beam Enters Irish Whiskey Market With $95 Million Acquisition of Cooley Distillery

    Beam Enters Irish Whiskey Market With $95 Million Acquisition of Cooley Distillery

Beam, the US-based international spirits group, is entering the fast growing Irish whiskey category with the purchase of Cooley Distillery in Ireland. The purchase price for Cooley, the industry’s only

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Carlsberg Signs New 5-year Revolving Credit Facility of €800 Million

    Carlsberg Signs New 5-year Revolving Credit Facility of €800 Million

Carlsberg has entered into a new 5-year revolving credit facility of Eur800 million with a selected group of relationship banks. The new facility replaces the Eur1.425 billion facility signed in

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Coca-Cola Hellenic Appoints New Chief Financial Office

    Coca-Cola Hellenic Appoints New Chief Financial Office

Athens-based Coca-Cola Hellenic, the world’s second-largest bottler of products of The Coca-Cola Company, has announced that its chief financial officer, Robert Murray, will resign from the group to return to

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Heineken and Coca-Cola Hellenic Increase Stake in Pivara Skopje

    Heineken and Coca-Cola Hellenic Increase Stake in Pivara Skopje

Heineken and Coca-Cola Hellenic have acquired 41.2% of the minority shares in their joint venture company, Pivara Skopje, in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) for €79.1 million (excluding

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Morrisons Expansion to Create More than 7,000 New Jobs in 2012

    Morrisons Expansion to Create More than 7,000 New Jobs in 2012

UK supermarket group Morrisons will create more than 7,000 new jobs in 2012 as it continues its store expansion programme

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New Unilever Plant Sets Global Sustainability Standards

    New Unilever Plant Sets Global Sustainability Standards

Unilever’s R670 million (Eur61 million), state-of-the-art savoury foods plant in Durban is setting new global standards in responsible and sustainable

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Premier Foods Sells Four Irish Brands For €41 Million

    Premier Foods Sells Four Irish Brands For €41 Million

Premier Foods is selling its four Irish brands comprising Chivers, Gateaux, McDonnells and the Erin licence to The Boyne Valley

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Arla Foods Joins Global Dairy Trade Auction

    Arla Foods Joins Global Dairy Trade Auction

Arla Foods, the Danish, Swedish and German dairy co-operative, will begin offering dairy products on GlobalDairyTrade from April 3rd 2012.

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Heineken to Increase Stake in Haitian Brewer

    Heineken to Increase Stake in Haitian Brewer

Heineken intends to increase its shareholding in Brasserie Nationale d’Haiti (Brana), the country’s leading brewer, from 22.5% to 95%. The

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Sara Lee to Acquire Dutch Cafe Store Leader

    Sara Lee to Acquire Dutch Cafe Store Leader

Sara Lee, the US-based food and beverage group, is acquiring CoffeeCompany, a leading Dutch cafe store operator. The acquisition will

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Nestle Purina Celebrating a Decade of Passion For Pets

    Nestle Purina Celebrating a Decade of Passion For Pets

Nestle Purina is celebrating tenth anniversary. The company was formed when Nestle acquired the Ralston Purina pet care company in

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Every Last Drop Campaign – Saving Water Along the Food Supply Chain

    Every Last Drop Campaign – Saving Water Along the Food Supply Chain

The Food and Drink Federation (FDF) has launched the ‘Every Last Drop’ campaign – a campaign to raise awareness amongst

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£100 Million Bill For EU Plans on Food Storage

New food storage rules being considered by the European Commission would cost retailers at least £100 million pounds and have

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Premier Foods Sells Brookes Avana to 2 Sisters For £30 Million

    Premier Foods Sells Brookes Avana to 2 Sisters For £30 Million

Premier Foods has agreed to sell its loss-making Brookes Avana business comprising of RF Brookes chilled foods and Avana Bakeries

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Heineken Forms Global Partnership With Facebook

    Heineken Forms Global Partnership With Facebook

Heineken and Facebook have announced a global partnership, which will see the two companies collaborate on digital campaigns for Heineken’s

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UK Food Companies Continue to Deliver Reductions in Environmental Impacts

    UK Food Companies Continue to Deliver Reductions in Environmental Impacts

The food and drink industry, the UK’s largest manufacturing sector, has continued to deliver significant reductions in CO2 emissions while

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Mead Johnson Nutrition to Build $325 Million Manufacturing Plant

    Mead Johnson Nutrition to Build $325 Million Manufacturing Plant

US-based Mead Johnson Nutrition, one of the world’s leading baby food companies, is to build a new manufacturing and technology

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Nestle Joins New Partnership to Improve Dairy Farming in Brazil

    Nestle Joins New Partnership to Improve Dairy Farming in Brazil

Nestle has joined a new partnership with other dairy companies in Brazil to help more than 2,200 farms improve milk

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Cooley Distillery Starts Poitin Revival

    Cooley Distillery Starts Poitin Revival

Independent Irish whiskey producer Cooley Distillery has launched a new range of Poitín products to showcase the traditional spirit of

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R&R Ice Cream Links With Kraft Foods

    R&R Ice Cream Links With Kraft Foods

R&R Ice Cream, Europe’s largest own label ice cream manufacturer, is joining forces with Kraft Foods to bring confectionery innovation

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Greencore Shows Resilience

    Greencore Shows Resilience

Greencore, one of the leading players in the UK convenience foods market, has increased revenue by 8.7% to £804.2 million,

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Kraft Foods to Restructure UK Confectionery Operations

    Kraft Foods to Restructure UK Confectionery Operations

Kraft Foods plans to invest £50 million in its UK confectionery manufacturing operations while cutting the workforce by 200 people.

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Sara Lee Completes Sale of Fresh Bakery Business in Spain and Portugal to Grupo Bimbo

    Sara Lee Completes Sale of Fresh Bakery Business in Spain and Portugal to Grupo Bimbo

US-based food group Sara Lee has completed the Eur115 million sale of its fresh bakery business in Spain and Portugal

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R&R Ice Cream Acquires German Business

    R&R Ice Cream Acquires German Business

R&R Ice Cream, Europe’s largest own label ice cream manufacturer, has acquired Durigon Gelato of Germany for an undisclosed sum,

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Lion Capital Purchases Cumbrian Seafoods

    Lion Capital Purchases Cumbrian Seafoods

Private equity firm Lion Capital, which owns Young’s Seafood, has expanded its UK fish and seafood interests with the acquisition

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Irene Rosenfeld to Lead Kraft’s Global Snacks Company

    Irene Rosenfeld to Lead Kraft’s Global Snacks Company

In the next step toward dividing into two public companies, Kraft Foods has announced the appointments of the heads of

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Glanbia Considering New €50 Million Dairy Plant

    Glanbia Considering New €50 Million Dairy Plant

Glanbia, the Irish and international nutritional solutions and cheese group, is reported to be considering investing more than Eur50 million

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Irish Distillers to Invest of €100 Million to Expand Midleton Distillery

    Irish Distillers to Invest of €100 Million to Expand Midleton Distillery

In response to the continued growth of its Jameson Irish whiskey brand on world markets, Irish Distillers Pernod Ricard has

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Greencore Offer Talks End

    Greencore Offer Talks End

Negotiations about a possible offer by US private equity firm Clayton Dubilier & Rice to buy Greencore, one of the

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Heineken Acquires UK Pub Business For £412 Million

    Heineken Acquires UK Pub Business For £412 Million

Heineken has acquired the Galaxy Pub Estate in the UK from The Royal Bank of Scotland for £412 million (€480

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Cargill to Cut 2,000 Jobs

    Cargill to Cut 2,000 Jobs

Cargill plans to cut its workforce by up to 2,000 of its 138,000 employees globally, a reduction of about 1.5%.

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Record Results at Greene King

    Record Results at Greene King

Greene King, the British regional brewer and pub group, has increased operating profit before exceptionals to a record £115.6 million in

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Britvic Expands US Distribution of Fruit Shoot Brand

    Britvic Expands US Distribution of Fruit Shoot Brand

Britvic has signed agreements with three of the top four bottlers of Pepsi in the United States to expand the

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Future of Bakkavor Salad Factory Under Review

    Future of Bakkavor Salad Factory Under Review

Bakkavor Group has commenced a 90 days consultation period with 178 staff at its English Village Salads subsidiary in East

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Kerry Group Completes $230 Million Acquisition

    Kerry Group Completes $230 Million Acquisition

Kerry, the global ingredients, flavours and consumer foods group, has completed the acquisition of Cargill’s global flavours business. Cargill Flavor

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Marston’s Increases Sales and Underlying Profits

    Marston’s Increases Sales and Underlying Profits

Despite the difficult economic environment, UK regional brewer and pub operator Marston’s increased revenue by 4.8% to £682.2 million in

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