Supply glut smashes French wine prices
Under-pressure vintners in southern France have handed out 50,000 free bottles of wine to tourists to publicise their plight as prices continue to crumble amid a huge bottleneck in supply.
Archives for August 4, 2005
Coke, Pepsi, Ipsei and a looming legal dispute
Coca-Cola could face a legal challenge from arch-rival Pepsi if it succeeds in launching a new vitamin-enriched soft drink on the UK market.
Bioinformatics may isolate food allergy proteins
A team of UK scientists will analyse and demonstrate how bioinformatics could help food companies improve their products, from pin-pointing allergy-causing proteins to identifying the cause of batch spoilage.
Carlsberg adds new brewery in west China
Danish brewer Carlsberg has expanded its presence in China with a new greenfield brewery in the Western Qinghai province.