News & Analysis for the Beverage Industry
Innovation pushed from flavour firms operating in this competitive sector brings food developers new opportunities to improve the final product as ICI flavour subsidiary Quest International, streamlined in May this year through the spin off of its...
InBev is acquiring the remaining 45 per cent interest in Hunan Debier Brewery, located in Hunan province, China, for $18.2 million. The move is part of InBev's ongoing integration process of the Lion Group Breweries, which it acquired earlier this year.
Increasing competition on the xanthan gum market leads Danish ingredients firm Danisco to cut jobs at the recently acquired Rhodia Food activities in France.
A slump in international sales means that Coca-Cola is set to switch its focus to the China market in an effort to sustain growth. The company said that with current economic growth continuing apace, China should be its third biggest market by 2008.
Sherwood Technology has developed a new generation colour change technique to fight counterfeiting in the food industry.