Food

  • Pringles trialling a new paper-based tube

    Pringles, the well-known potato-based snack brand owned by Kellogg’s, is planning an eco-makeover for its classic tubes. The multinational is experimenting with a new packaging solution that will be much easier to recycle without altering the brand’s traditional design.
  • Loacker: “Pure goodness!” also in terms of revenues

    Loacker, a historic South Tyrolean brand known worldwide for its famous wafers, posted a turnover of €355 million in 2019, up 14% on 2018, with sales of 957 million packaged specialities (including wafers, pastries and chocolate desserts) in over 118 countries around the world.
  • Plumrose chooses Italian meats

    Plumrose, filiale statunitense del colosso della carne JBS USA, ha annunciato la costruzione di un nuovo stabilimento del valore di 200 milioni di dollari. 
  • Findus embraces the vegetarian burger trend

    Following in the footsteps of Unilever, Beyond Meat and Impossible Food, Findus is now also launching its own Green Cuisine line of vegetarian burgers, meatballs and sausages with a similar taste to meat but aimed at more environmentally conscious consumers.
  • Free-from and Rich-in, the new food trends

    Whether gluten-free, preservative-free, sugar-free or high in fibre, protein or calcium, there’s no stopping the rise of the free-from and rich-in product trends that continue to dominate consumers’ purchasing choices and fuel a steady stream of new offerings from companies.
  • Cargill to start up chocolate facility in India

    US agribusiness giant Cargill is partnering with an Indian manufacturer to launch its first chocolate manufacturing operation in Asia aimed at bakery and confectionery customers.
  • Home deliveries for pets attract investors

    Dog Heroes is a Lombardy-based startup that was only launched last November but has already raised a €400,000 funding round for the development of its business, which aims to spark a health revolution in the dog food market (a market that in Italy is worth over €1 billion).
  • Liwayway Food to open factory in Tashkent

    The Philippine company Liwayway Food, which produces snacks under the Oishi brand, has begun work on a new factory in the Qibray district of Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
  • Lantmännen Unibake expands in Norway

    Sweden’s Lantmännen Unibake, the second largest bakery group in Europe, has taken over the production activities of French Bakery Company located in Drammen, Norway.
  • Turkey Hill expands in Arkansas

    The US food & beverage brand Turkey Hill has announced a significant expansion of its ice cream division through the acquisition of the Arkansas production facility of Yarnell Ice Cream, a subsidiary of Schulze & Burch Biscuit Company.
  • Just Eat to acquire Grubhub in blow to Uber

    Just Eat Takeaway.com has agreed to acquire American Grubhub for $7.3 billion, creating the largest food delivery service outside of China and connecting partner restaurants with customers in 25 countries.
  • Monini, 2030 sustainability plan includes packaging

    Monini, a pioneering Italian extra virgin olive oil producer based in the Umbria region, has announced a sustainability plan that will see it invest €25 million by 2030 in three major areas: “In campo” (“In the field”), “Dentro la bottiglia” (“In the bottle”) and “Sulla tavola” (“On the table”).
  • New joint venture in the field of plant-based food production

    Brazilian companies Marfrig and Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) have formed a new joint venture company (owned 70%-30% respectively) which will offer plant-based food products in North and South America under the new PlantPlus Food brand name.
  • Barry Callebaut expands its chocolate business

    The Switzerland-based international confectionery group Barry Callebaut has signed an agreement to acquire GKC Foods, one of Australia’s largest chocolate producers, with the aim of expanding its presence in Australia and New Zealand.
  • Orsero grows and confirms FY 2020 Guidance

    Orsero, a company listed on the STAR segment of Borsa Italiana’s equity market, has escaped the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and posted 7.9% growth in net revenues in Q1 to €240.9 million.

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