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Coca-Cola System to Invest $3 Billion in Russia

    Coca-Cola System to Invest $3 Billion in Russia

The Coca-Cola Company and its bottling partner, Coca-Cola Hellenic, have announced a new Russian investment programme of $3 billion over the next five years, commencing 2012. The announcement was made

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New Chief Financial Officer For Nestle

    New Chief Financial Officer For Nestle

Nestle has appointed Wan Ling Martello (pictured right) to succeed Jim Singh (pictured left), executive vice president and chief financial officer of Nestle, who is retiring on March 31st 2012 after

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FrieslandCampina Promotes Milk From Pasture-fed Cows

    FrieslandCampina Promotes Milk From Pasture-fed Cows

International dairy company FrieslandCampina plans to earmark Eur45 million a year to encourage outdoor grazing for its dairy herds. Under the new scheme, member dairy farmers of the FrieslandCampina dairy

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Poor Weather Restricts AG Barr

    Poor Weather Restricts AG Barr

The poor summer weather has impacted upon the financial performance of UK soft drinks manufacturer AG Barr in the first six months ended July 30th 2011. Driven by the company’s

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The One to Watch: Nicola Swann From Videojet Technologies

    The One to Watch: Nicola Swann From Videojet Technologies

Nicola Swann (pictured right) from Videojet Technologies is the winner of the PPMA Show’s Ones to Watch awards, which recognise promising under 35 years olds who have made a real

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Solid Performance By Finsbury Food Group

    Solid Performance By Finsbury Food Group

Helped by a return to growth in its cake division, UK bakery company Finsbury Food Group has increased revenue by 12.6% to £189.6 million and underlying profit before tax by

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Mars to Introduce First Fairtrade Product

    Mars to Introduce First Fairtrade Product

Mars Chocolate and Fairtrade International have announced a new agreement to introduce the first Fairtrade labelled Mars product and to work together to enable farmers to have sustainable livelihoods through

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Kerry Group Acquiring Cargill’s Global Flavours Business For $230 Million

    Kerry Group Acquiring Cargill’s Global Flavours Business For $230 Million

Kerry Group, the global ingredients and flavours and consumer foods group, has agreed to acquire Cargill’s global flavours business for $230 million. Cargill Flavor Systems has annual revenues of approximately

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Kellogg Recognised For Commitment to Addressing Climate Change

    Kellogg Recognised For Commitment to Addressing Climate Change

Kellogg Company has been commended by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) for its professional and transparent approach in disclosing climate change information. The CDP’s 2011 ‘Carbon Disclosure Leadership Index’ identifies

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Nestle Extends Global Product Technology Centre For Confectionery

    Nestle Extends Global Product Technology Centre For Confectionery

Nestle is enlarging its global Product Technology Centre for confectionery, based at York in the UK. Nestle Product Technology Centres have two roles. The first is to develop breakthrough technologies

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Ireland’s Food and Drink Exports to Approach €9 Billion in 2011

    Ireland’s Food and Drink Exports to Approach €9 Billion in 2011

Irish food and drink exports in 2011 are expected to reach a record high of €8.9 billion, an increase of more than 12%, or almost €1 billion, on 2010 levels.

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Irish Dairy Board to Open New Plant in Algeria

    Irish Dairy Board to Open New Plant in Algeria

The Irish Dairy Board (IDB) has commissioned a new dedicated state-of-the-art value added dairy packaging plant for its Kerrygold brand in Algeria. The IDB has also just opened an office

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PepsiCo Creates Global Snacks Group

    PepsiCo Creates Global Snacks Group

PepsiCo is creating the Global Snacks Group (GSG), designed to drive breakthrough innovation across its leading portfolio of global snack food brands. The US-based beverages and snacks group has also

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SABMiller Wins Foster’s

    SABMiller Wins Foster’s

As expected, SABMiller’s sweetened bid for Foster’s has been recommended by the Australian brewer’s board. The agreed proposal represents an acquisition enterprise value of A$11.5 billion, which is a 2.8%

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AB InBev Partners with GE to Achieve 2012 Energy and Water Environmental Initiatives in China

    AB InBev Partners with GE to Achieve 2012 Energy and Water Environmental Initiatives in China

Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world’s largest brewer, and energy solutions provider GE have formed a strategic alliance to jointly develop innovative manufacturing solutions to drive energy efficiency and water savings in

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Diageo Expands Global Partnership With Facebook

    Diageo Expands Global Partnership With Facebook

Diageo plans to step-up its multi-million dollar strategic partnership with Facebook, which will drive unprecedented levels of integration and joint business planning and experimentation between the two companies. The current

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Mixed Outlook For Global Additives Market

    Mixed Outlook For Global Additives Market

Global sales of food and drink additives reached $27.4 billion in 2010, according to Leatherhead Food Research’s new report ‘The Global Food Additives Market’. Although the market as a whole

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The Real Good Food Company Returns to Profit

    The Real Good Food Company Returns to Profit

The Real Good Food Company, the UK sugar, food ingredients and bakery group, has reported a profit before tax of £1.15 million for the first six months ended June 30th

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Dairy Crest Meeting Expectations

    Dairy Crest Meeting Expectations

Operational efficiencies and selling price increases have allowed Dairy Crest to broadly offset higher input costs during its first half trading period ending September 30th 2011. Trading has been in

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Coca-Cola Opens New €200 Million Irish Facility

    Coca-Cola Opens New €200 Million Irish Facility

The Coca-Cola Company has officially opened its new manufacturing and innovation facility in Wexford in Ireland following investment of Eur200 million. The US-based beverages giant has also announced the expansion

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Improved Trading Performance by Uniq

    Improved Trading Performance by Uniq

UK convenience food processor Uniq has continued to improve its trading performance in the first half ended June 30th 2011. Operating profit before significant items and group costs improved by

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Danone Enters Indian Infant Nutrition Market With €250 Million Deal

    Danone Enters Indian Infant Nutrition Market With €250 Million Deal

Danone is entering the baby nutrition and medical nutrition markets in India. The French food and beverage group has agreed to acquire Wockhardt Group’s nutrition business and brands as well

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Scotch Whisky Exports Soar

    Scotch Whisky Exports Soar

Scotch whisky exports grew strongly, defying global economic uncertainty, in the first six months of 2011. Global shipments of Scotch

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Nestle Strengthens Leadership in Emerging Markets With New Factory

    Nestle Strengthens Leadership in Emerging Markets With New Factory

Nestle is strengthening its leadership in emerging markets by starting construction of a new $200 million factory in Indonesia. The

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Coca-Cola Hellenic in Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes For 4th Consecutive Year

    Coca-Cola Hellenic in Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes For 4th Consecutive Year

Coca-Cola Hellenic, one of the world’s largest bottlers of products of The Coca-Cola Company, has been included for the fourth

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Arla Foods Advances German Dairy Acquisition

    Arla Foods Advances German Dairy Acquisition

Arla Foods has moved a step closer to acquiring Allgauland Kasereien after the last of the six co-operatives which own

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Produce World Officially Opens New Head Office

    Produce World Officially Opens New Head Office

Produce World, one of the largest expert growers and suppliers of fresh vegetables in Europe, has officially opened its new

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Kerry Group to Expand its Sweet Ingredients and Flavours Business

    Kerry Group to Expand its Sweet Ingredients and Flavours Business

Kerry, the global ingredients, flavours and consumer foods group, is acquiring SuCrest to significantly expanding its sweet ingredients and flavours

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Bakkavor Group to Sell French Business

    Bakkavor Group to Sell French Business

Bakkavor Group, the UK convenience food manufacturer, is selling Bakkavor Traiteur, a non-core, fish spreads business based in France, to

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Executive Changes at Arla Foods

    Executive Changes at Arla Foods

Arla Foods is making changes to its senior management team and to its business group structure in order to shorten

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Coca-Cola Enterprises to Invest €17 Million in French Factory

    Coca-Cola Enterprises to Invest €17 Million in French Factory

Coca-Cola Enterprises has reaffirmed its commitment to the French market by confirming its plans to invest Eur17 million to develop

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Thorntons Restructures to Tackle Declining Profits

    Thorntons Restructures to Tackle Declining Profits

Although it increased sales by 1.7% to £218.3 million, UK chocolate manufacturer and retailer Thorntons has reported a 37.3% plunge

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Nescafe Dolce Gusto Boosts Nestle’s Spanish Exports

    Nescafe Dolce Gusto Boosts Nestle’s Spanish Exports

Strong sales of the ‘coffee-at-home’ machine innovation Nescafe Dolce Gusto have helped Nestle Spain to increase exports by 44% in

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Barry Callebaut to Invest SFr25 Million to Enhance European Facilities

    Barry Callebaut to Invest SFr25 Million to Enhance European Facilities

Barry Callebaut will invest nearly SFr25 million (Eur22 million) to upgrade and expand its facilities in Europe. The majority of

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R&R Ice Cream Expands With €27 Million French Acquisition

    R&R Ice Cream Expands With €27 Million French Acquisition

UK-based R&R Ice Cream has expanded its French business with the Eur27m acquisition of Pilpa, the ice cream division of

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Kraft Foods to Open Biscuit Factory in Ukraine

    Kraft Foods to Open Biscuit Factory in Ukraine

Kraft Foods is investing $36 million to build a biscuit factory in Ukraine. Based at Trostyanets, in central Ukraine, the

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Arla Launches First Branded Dairy Indian Range in the UK

    Arla Launches First Branded Dairy Indian Range in the UK

Arla Foods UK has launched its new Indian dairy range, which gives consumers the chance to buy authentic fresh Indian

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Fonterra and First Milk Form Whey Joint Venture

    Fonterra and First Milk Form Whey Joint Venture

New Zealand-based Fonterra and UK-based First Milk have established a strategic joint venture to produce premium whey proteins for Fonterra’s

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Nestle Pilots Social Commerce With New Interactive Site

    Nestle Pilots Social Commerce With New Interactive Site

Nestle has launched a new, interactive online social commerce platform in Germany to engage with consumers while providing greater access

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Emerging Markets and Top Brands Drive Pernod Ricard

    Emerging Markets and Top Brands Drive Pernod Ricard

Achieving growth across all its regions, Pernod Ricard has reported an 8% rise in full year sales to Eur7.64 billion,

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Arla Foods Increases First Half Revenue and Payments to Members

    Arla Foods Increases First Half Revenue and Payments to Members

Reflecting its merger with the German dairy Hansa-Milch earlier this year and price increases in the international dairy market, Arla

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Granarolo Strengthens Cheese Business

    Granarolo Strengthens Cheese Business

Italian dairy company Granarolo has strengthened its cheese business with the acquisition of Lat Bri for an undisclosed sum. With

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Nestle Completes Centre of Excellence for Nutrition Products

    Nestle Completes Centre of Excellence for Nutrition Products

Nestle has officially inaugurated its new SFr200 million (Eur175 million) production unit at its nutrition factory complex at Konolfingen in

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Sales Rise as FrieslandCampina Invests in Further Growth

    Sales Rise as FrieslandCampina Invests in Further Growth

Benefiting from higher prices and increased volumes of added value products, FrieslandCampina has increased net revenue by 9.3% to Eur4.73

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British Shoppers Expect Higher Food Prices and Prepared to Use Different Shop Formats

    British Shoppers Expect Higher Food Prices and Prepared to Use Different Shop Formats

Nine out of ten British shoppers expect food prices to be more expensive in the year ahead, according to the

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Electronic Identification of Bovines to be Introduced in the EU

    Electronic Identification of Bovines to be Introduced in the EU

The European Commission has adopted a proposal that, when implemented, is intended to further enhance food safety and better safeguard

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Good Result For Emmi Despite Currency Factors

    Good Result For Emmi Despite Currency Factors

Swiss dairy group Emmi has posted a 2.7% increase in net sales to SFr1.31 billion (Eur1.12 billion) in the first half of 2011

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UK Alcohol Consumption in 2010 Far Lower Than 2004 Peak

    UK Alcohol Consumption in 2010 Far Lower Than 2004 Peak

UK alcohol consumption in 2010 remains far lower than it was six years ago, with consumption continuing to flat-line. While

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Research Finds Probiotic Bacteria Lessen Depression

    Research Finds Probiotic Bacteria Lessen Depression

Probiotic bacteria have the potential to alter brain neurochemistry and treat anxiety and depression-related disorders, according to research just published

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Nestle to Increase Production in Thailand

    Nestle to Increase Production in Thailand

Nestle will invest more than SFr98 million (Eur83 million) in Thailand to increase manufacturing of its products including coffee and

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£100 Million Renewable Energy Fund for UK Farmers Launched

    £100 Million Renewable Energy Fund for UK Farmers Launched

Barclays has launched a £100 million fund for UK farmers investing in renewable energy, tracking the massive groundswell of interest

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Interim Sales Increase at Lotus Bakeries

    Interim Sales Increase at Lotus Bakeries

Belgium-based biscuits and cakes manufacturer Lotus Bakeries increased consolidated turnover by 5% to Eur133.6m in the first half of 2011.

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Profit Plunge at Bel Group

    Profit Plunge at Bel Group

Despite uncertain conditions arising from geopolitical unrest in Africa and the Middle East, Bel Group increased sales by 4.7% to

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IFF Further Expands Caplock Capacity at UK Facility

    IFF Further Expands Caplock Capacity at UK Facility

International Flavors & Fragrances is to further expand its Caplock production line at its European Centre of Excellence for Flavor

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