Dutch distiller Toorank believes that its new range of vodka-based
flavoured alcoholic beverages - Petrikov Red and Blue - has been
able to establish high retail sales because of the market presence
given by award-winning labelling.
Dutch brewing giant Heineken has increased its stake in Russia's
rapidly growing beer market for the second time in three months,
underlining the competition among big brewers to exploit the
potential of this newly crowned nation...
Investors monitoring the huge growth potential and high profit
margins of China's burgeoning wine market are beginning to dip
their toe in, writes Anthony Fletcher.
Italy-based chemical group Gruppo Mossi & Ghisolfi (M&G) is
constructing a new high-performance PET plant in South America,
warning that the commodity market is becoming seriously
oversupplied, writes Anthony Fletcher.
China's beer market - the biggest in the world - is continuing to
consolidate into the control of just a handful of major companies,
but while international brewers have certainly been quick to stake
their claims, there are still...
The European Commission has fined French dairy Groupe Danone and
Dutch beer giant Heineken €2.5 million for colluding to control the
wholesale beer market in France.
Vietnam is banking on burgeoning tea exports to Russia, earmarking
it as a primary market for the future. With exports growing at 30
per cent in the last year, the Vietnam Tea Association (VTA) wants
to push total exports up to 15,000...
Processing equipment provider Thermo Electron has developed a
number of new monitoring systems design to help manufacturers cut
costs and increase product safety.
Three major European brewing companies are competing to purchase a
small brewery in the previously unexplored region of Russia's far
east, as the scrap to profit from one of the world's
fastest-growing beer markets hots...
A re-vamped, state-of-the-art factory, which can produce 50,000
bottles of soft drinks every hour, has just been opened by Polish
soft drinks company Hoop, giving the company the perfect platform
to penetrate European markets, writes...
Artificial sweeteners will lead the growth in the food additives
market on the back of rising consumer demand for functional foods,
closely followed by nutraceuticals and food preservatives, but
flavours will remain, by far, the largest...
Number one natural colours firm Chr Hansen builds on ambitions to
penetrate deeper into this growing market with the launch of a new
range of natural reds that tackle stability for beverage
formulations, reports Lindsey Partos.
After rejecting an $800 million offer for its juice business from
Northland Cranberries early last year, US co-operative Ocean Spray
has decided the time is right to enter into an agreement with its
rival.
Global packaging group Rexam, the world's leading beverage can
supplier, has acquired the 50 per cent shareholding it does not own
in the Mexican beverage can business, Vitro-American National Can
SA de CV (VanCan), from its...
Packaging and dispensing solutions manufacturer International
Dispensing Corporation has commercialised what it claims is the
world's only aseptic gravity flow valve (GFV) for the food
industry.
A new company dedicated to developing and manufacturing coating
modules for use in beverage filling machines has been created
through an alliance of SIG Corpoplast and technology group Schott.
A new campaign to reduce sugar levels in foods and consumer diets
in order to tackle the national obesity problem is reportedly being
considered by the UK government, to run after the current attack on
salt is over, writes Chris Mercer.
Bravo! Foods International, a manufacturer of vitamin-fortified
flavoured milks, has signed a licensing agreement with the
confectionery and snack food division of Mars, Masterfoods USA, to
produce, market and sell three of its fortified...
More science is needed to encourage food and drink makers to invest
in new formulations using third generation whey products, finds a
new report that suggests more clinical trials and documentation
could overcome this barrier to growth,...
UK developer and marketer of high-nutrition food and drink
products, Nutrinnovator today reported on trading for the last six
months and confirmed its future focus on functional food and
beverages.
Campina, the international co-operative dairy company, has revealed
how it plans to expand sales of its dairy-based beverages arm -
with the introduction of a uniform line of bottle packaging.
A new campaign to reduce sugar levels in foods and consumer diets
in order to tackle the national obesity problem is reportedly being
considered by the UK government, to run after the current attack on
salt is over, writes Chris Mercer.
The drinks industry believes fortified beverages are the answer to
claims that Americans are increasingly drinking sweetened soft
drinks at the expense of more nutritious alternatives.
Shares in the world's largest beverage company, Coca-Cola, have
sunk to their lowest price for 16 months after the soft drinks
giant forecast that it would make less money than expected in the
second half of 2004, blaming poor...
SABMiller's Chinese joint venture, China Resources Breweries, has
acquired the Chinese brewing interests of Australian-based Lion
Nathan, which entails three breweries in the populous Yangtze River
Delta Region. After losing...
Researchers exploring the flavour thresholds of orange juice have
made strides towards designing more precise flavour profiles for
better quality citrus juices that will ultimately cut costs for
beverage manufacturers and provide...
K-Tek has launched a liquid detector guided by wave radar readings
that are immune to fluctuations in specific gravity and variations
in dielectric constants.
Young people who consume energy drinks with alcohol to improve
their stamina on a night out are likely to see no such effect,
suggests new research on the market leader Red Bull.
Poland is set to become the prime international market for Heineken
as Grupa Zywiec reports booming sales and profits for the first
half of the year. A strategy focusing on one brand for each beer
segment and concerted efforts to...
The Serbian Privitisation Agency says that all the current bids for
mineral water bottler Knjaz Milos will fail because they are too
low, a fact that is likely to lead to a second round of more heated
bidding. And with interest in...
Danish ingredients giant will shut down beverage flavour operations
in Sweden as tough competition bites and business is impacted by
growing consumer demand for health positioned drinks, reports
Lindsey Partos.
Major international brewer InBev says that the rapid growth of its
interests in the China market have been one of the key factors that
has helped it achieved a 5.5 per cent growth in its net profits for
the first six months of the...
International brewery giant Anheuser-Busch is predicting double
digit returns for shareholders this year, citing strategic growth
in the booming China market as one of the main reasons.
A report on Germany's packaging regulations claims that single-use
PET beverage bottles are as ecologically sound as refillable glass,
making a mockery of the controversial deposit system, writes
Anthony Fletcher.
Serbia appears to be flavour of the month for investors, as the
race to bag the country's leading mineral water bottler, Knjaz
Milos, intensifies following a late but serious bid from Serbian
national and LA Lakers basketball...
Filling and packaging systems manufacturer KHS is focusing its
efforts on developing new labelling, filtration, racking and crate
inspection technologies.
Eastman Chemical, the world's leading supplier of polyethylene
terephthalate (PET) for packaging, claims to have made a
breakthrough in the manufacture of PET resin.
Plans to sell German food ingredients business Nutrinova are on
hold as chemical company Celanese opts to keep the producer of
Sunett sweetener, for now.
The European Union said yesterday that the proposed settlement
between Coca-Cola and the European Commission to end a long-running
antitrust case has still not been finalised.
Pursuit Dynamics has built a new pilot kitchen in order to
demonstrate its steam-based PDX fluids handling system, which the
company claims can increase production efficiency and conserve
energy.
A new wireless diagnostic tool for bottle and can production lines
could revolutionise quality control in beverage packaging,
according to the firm behind the technology. Anthony Fletcher
reports.
Polish soft drinks manufacturer Hoop, a significant player in the
European soft drinks market, has announced a drop in profits for
the financial year 2003 following an increase in expenditure
related to the enhancement of production...
