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UK: Ambitious Duchy eyes US, India (REG)
Duchy Originals, the UK food maker founded by the Prince of Wales, is looking to international markets to help it quadruple the size of the business in the next five years.
AUS: Coles management augmented
Coles owner Wesfarmers has announced that two new members will join the Australian retailer’s management team as part of its push to restructure the flagging grocer.
US/UK: ADM secures organic cocoa status (REG)
Archer Daniel Midland, the US-based agribusiness giant, has secured organic status at two cocoa facilities in the UK.
- BRAZIL: EU beef restrictions fail to hit Minerva (REG)Brazilian beef packer Minerva has shrugged off EU beef import restrictions and posted a jump in first-quarter revenue.
- GLOBAL: Food prices to stay high for 2-3 years - UN Food prices are likely to stay high for the next two to three years until stocks are replenished, the United Nations food agency said today (15 May).
- EU: Commission mulls retail competition probe (MEM)The European Commission is mulling the launch of a competition probe into whether price-fixing by retailers is driving up food prices in Europe.
- SPAIN: Dairies face trial threat over alleged EU fraud (MEM)Spain’s largest dairy producers, including Ebro Puleva and Leche Asturiana, could face trial over an alleged EUR250m (US$387.5m) fraud against the EU’s milk production quota, an industry executive told just-food today (15 May).
- Premier fails to silence the doubters (MEM)With a steady trading update this week, Premier Foods may believe it has stopped the rot at the UK's largest food maker. However, a series of questions still hang over the business and the jury is out over whether the company can thrive in an ever-changing grocery sector. Dean Best reports.
- US: Tyson to cut jobs at poultry plant (MEM)Tyson Foods has said that it is cutting 190 jobs at its production plant in Glenn Allen, VA.
- US: Danisco, DuPont eye alternative biofuels (REG)Food ingredients group Danisco has joined forces with chemicals giant DuPont in a bid to develop ethanol that does not rely on food crops.
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Tesco. The UK loves you, it loves you not
15th May 2008 17:28
Truism number one of the UK grocery sector – everyone hates Tesco. Truism number two (not grocery-related) – everyone loves Justin Timberlake. Alas, cliché-watchers, both of these a...
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