JBS forms meat joint venture with Indonesia’s sovereign-wealth fund
Brazilian meat giant JBS has entered a joint venture with Indonesia’s sovereign-wealth fund to “pursue investment opportunities” in protein production.…
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Simon Harvey
Simon has been writing about the food industry with Just Food since 2017. Prior to that, he was a financial news editor at Bloomberg and Dow Jones for around 17 years, working out of bureaus in London, Singapore and Malaysia.
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Beyond Meat outlines three-point plan as foodservice volumes dive
Beyond Meat showed some pockets of improvement in the second quarter as co-founder and CEO Ethan Brown outlined a plan…
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BellRing Brands poised for price increases
BellRing Brands plans to raise prices again on protein powders and shakes to recover inflationary costs. Talking through the third-quarter…
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2 Sisters Food Group lines up job cuts at UK ready-meals factory
2 Sisters Food Group is lining up job cuts at a UK ready-meals factory under a restructuring exercise. The private-label…
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Tyson Foods expects steeper losses in beef as third-quarter volumes slide
Tyson Foods is expecting to post a steeper annual loss in beef than it originally anticipated as cattle shortages persist.…
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Hershey pricing hits confectionery volumes as salty snacks respond to cuts
Hershey is confident it can restore confectionery volumes lost to price increases as optimism emerges for cocoa “deflation” in the…
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Emerging markets come up trumps for Magnum Ice Cream
Growth in select emerging markets trumped The Magnum Ice Cream Company’s group performance in the first half despite turbulence in…
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“We’re the biggest plant-based company in Europe. We have all the cards” – The Vegetarian Butcher Collective CEO Rutger Rozendaal talks up category
The Vegetarian Butcher Collective was recently formed through the merger of two Dutch players and now claims to be Europe’s…
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Unilever moves towards staff agreement ahead of McCormick deal
Unilever has agreed “commitments” with its European workers ahead of the planned merger of most of its food business with…
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Mondelez feels heat in Europe as hot weather hits sales
Mondelez International has blamed the heatwave in Europe for a drop in regional volumes, mainly chocolate, but is confident of…