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Thailand's Charoen Pokphand Foods has continued its recent run of acquisitions with a deal to buy control of Germany-based Paulsen Food.

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Thai meat processor Charoen Pokphand Foods has booked higher first-quarter sales and profits.

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Thailand's Charoen Pokphand Foods has bought UK-based meat and ready-made products manufacturer Westbridge Food Group (WFGL) in a deal worth around GBP60m (US$75m).

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Thailand's Charoen Pokphand Foods aims to increase its poultry exports to the EU after being granted Germany's QS Standard. 

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Thailand's Charoen Pokphand Foods has reorganised its business into two operating segments that will focus on food and agricultural products and appointed two co-CEOs to oversee these operations. 

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Thailand's Charoen Pokphand Foods is targeting another 10% rise in sales in 2017, driven by its overseas business.

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Nestle, PepsiCo, Unilever and Kellogg are among the companies to have signed up to a global initiative aimed at improving food sourcing, reducing waste and supporting "adjustments" in food production methods to promote "healthy and sustainable diets".

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Thailand's Charoen Pokphand Foods is rolling out a chicken snack in the UK under its local brand Taste Inc, which it launched in the country almost four years ago.

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Thailand's Charoen Pokphand Foods is to acquire a 33% stake in Poland-based family-operated poultry export group SuperDrob for around THB1.87bn (US$52m).

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South Korea has lifted an embargo on chicken from Thailand introduced 12 years ago due to an outbreak of bird flu. 

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CP Pokphand Co., the Hong Kong-listed animal feed and meat processing venture in which Thai food group Charoen Pokphand Foods owns a majority stake, has struck a deal to buy a poultry business in northern China owned by state-backed agri-food giant COFCO.

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Thailand's Charoen Pokphand Foods is acquiring Bellisio Parent, the US's third-largest single-serve frozen entree maker, from private-equity group Centre Partners for US$1.08bn. 

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Charoen Pokphand Foods, the Thailand-based food group, has reported higher third-quarter sales and profits, with the company citing domestic and international factors.

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Charoen Pokphand Foods has announced the acquisition of 70% of Chinese poultry firm Fujian Sumpo, a deal made through the Thailand-based food group's Hong Kong-listed venture CP Pokphand Co.

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Thai food giant Charoen Pokphand Foods is building a production plant in Thailand to produce "healthy soup" aimed at "elderly people and patients". 

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Thai food giant Charoen Pokphand Foods has bought a majority stake in UK foodservice supplier Foodfellas.

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Thailand's Charoen Pokphand Foods aims to improve labour conditions across its poultry supply chain, bringing it in line with "internationally accepted" labour relations.

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Thailand's Charoen Pokphand Foods has acquired an 80% stake in Sri Lanka's ready-to-eat food manufacturer Norfolk Foods for US$4m.

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Thailand-based group Charoen Pokphand Foods has told just-food it is negotiating to supply fast-food chicken chains in India after opening a new chicken processing plant in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh.

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Thai meat processor Charoen Pokphand Foods has reported a jump in first-quarter revenues and profits. 

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Annual profits have risen at Thailand-based meat giant Charoen Pokphand Foods despite a dip in sales.

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Thailand-based meat giant Charoen Pokphand Foods has reported a 14% fall in third-quarter profits, overshadowing higher first-half earnings and dragging down its year-to-date profitability.

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Thailand's Charoen Pokphand Foods has reportedly halved its target for annual sales growth on the back of the country's slowing economy.

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This week's results included an upbeat US snack group Snyder's-Lance reporting higher second-quarter sales and profits, improved half-year revenue and earnings at seafood giant Thai Union and declines at an acquisitive SunOpta.

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South Africa's Tiger Brands grabbed the headlines this week with news of the over-stating of sales at its Kenyan arm inflating local profits last year. Elsewhere, Ireland's Total Produce lifted its earnings forecast and said it was on the look-out for more M&A. UK meat group Cranswick reported mixed annual results.

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Thai food group Charoen Pokphand Foods has reported an increase in profits for the first nine months of the year.

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Thai food giant Charoen Pokphand Foods and Brazilian meat group JBS look unlikely to table counter bids for Smithfield Foods after claims they were considering buying the US pork processor before it agreed to a takeover offer from China's Shuanghui International.

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UK food firm CP Foods is hoping to tap into the growing snacks market with the launch of a range of hot snacking products.