12-Aug-2003 - Agribusiness giant Archer Daniels Midland yesterday announced it will increase its liquid sorbitol capacity by 60 per cent by the end of 2003 in order...
07-Aug-2003 - The $500 billion (€440bn) US food processing industry says it is ready to focus its attention on suppliers in Europe, Asia and Africa, from whom...
06-Aug-2003 - US department of agriculture sugar-market economist John Love has predicted that producer prices for sugar for 2002/03 will be 5 per cent higher than last...
04-Aug-2003 - Moody's Investors Service has downgraded cranberry and grapefruit product marketer Ocean Spray's short term rating to Prime-3 from Prime-2, and its preferred stock rating to...
01-Aug-2003 - A new organic programme in the US has lifted sales of organic food and drink while western Europe saw growth slowing down on 2002 figures....
31-Jul-2003 - One century on and millions of ice cream tubs later the US 'food police' are out in force calling on ice cream retailers to tell...
30-Jul-2003 - Oilseed giant Bunge reaped a strong second quarter with net income more than tripling to $182 million (€158m), up from $50 million in 2002. The...
30-Jul-2003 - The volatile vanilla market has seen food manufacturers turning to synthetic substitutes as prices per kilo have soared from double to treble figures in recent...
29-Jul-2003 - US firm Technology Flavors & Fragrances continues to falter in 2003 with a 70 per cent decrease in net income for the second quarter, a...
25-Jul-2003 - Executives from food and drink firms including Coca-Cola, Nestlé and Kraft Foods continued talks on their role in global health at a meeting with the...
24-Jul-2003 - Agribusiness giant ADM will dissolve a joint venture with US corn sweetener company after the two companies stuck an agreement under the auspices of a...
24-Jul-2003 - The €435 billon US food industry has welcomed a move by the Bush administration to inject more cash into food security. Secretary of Health and...
21-Jul-2003 - Lesaffre Yeast has added a new consumer yeast brand to its North American portfolio with the acquisition of Stranks Management and its subsidiaries. As a...
15-Jul-2003 - Explosive growth will continue to mark the food preservation industry in the US, hitting 5.5 per cent annually until 2008. Preservation and shelf life longevity...
15-Jul-2003 - Cargill and Riceland Foods have announced their intention to link up to manufacture, market and sell lecithin products to food, pharmaceutical, and technical customers. Under...
11-Jul-2003 - Crowds of food industry professionals will start pouring through the doors of Chicago's McCormick Place South building this weekend for the opening of the IFT...
10-Jul-2003 - Ambitious Cargill subsidiary grabs the trehalose market in Europe as patent owner signs over distributor rights to the US giant. The agreement positions Cargill Health...
04-Jul-2003 - Food safety is making international headlines as the United States and the European Union continue to take dramatically different positions over this contentious issue. A...
03-Jul-2003 - US spice giant McCormick has sold the assets of Jenks Sales Brokers, a leftover slice from a UK spice purchase in the 1980s. The Jenks...
30-Jun-2003 - US spice maker McCormick & Company saw profits in the second-quarter climb 19 per cent, helped by solid sales growth and interest income from a...
23-Jun-2003 - US agribusiness Bunge continues on the road to expansion with the news that it is to acquire Hindustan Lever's edible oils and fats businesses from...
19-Jun-2003 - The innovative world of flavours is experiencing more rapid growth than the overall food industry, giving fresh momentum to the essential oils and oleoresins market,...
17-Jun-2003 - Quite a week for nutritional oils supplier Martek Biosciences. In the past seven days, the European Commission gave the green light for the use of...
16-Jun-2003 - US consumers can soon expect to see juices fortified with the natural ingredient lutein on the supermarket shelves following an agreement between ingredients company Kemin...
13-Jun-2003 - In a bid to encourage a closer collaboration between citrus growers and juice manufacturing customers, Cargill Citro Pure - a joint venture between Cargill Citro-America,...