Food industry pushes back on UK recycling scheme
UK retailers and food manufacturers are ramping up their efforts to delay the government’s launch of its extended producer responsibility …
US indoor lettuce grower Little Leaf Farms expands in Pennsylvania
Indoor lettuce grower Little Leaf Farms is to open a greenhouse in McAdoo, Pennsylvania this autumn, the US company has …
Eider Vertical Farming joins growing list of failing ag-tech businesses
Eider Vertical Farming has become the latest business in the controlled-environment agriculture space to collapse. FRP Advisory Trading said it was …
UK’s Vertical Future to develop alternative protein made of amaranth
UK vertical farming and research company Vertical Future is participating in a project to develop a new form of plant …
Is the net closing in on chemicals used in food packaging?
How much do we know about food contact chemicals used in packaging and what is being done to alleviate potential …
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Brazil’s BRF attracts share pledges from Saudi Arabia’s Salic and largest shareholder Marfrig
Saudi Arabia’s state agriculture fund has pledged to invest in future share offerings from Brazilian meat giant BRF. Still only a …
US seafood major Fortune International closes division
US-based seafood supplier Fortune International has folded its imports division into another department amid a management reshuffle. The US-based importer, manufacturer …
Dutch food group Vion to close beef plant in Germany
Netherlands-based Vion Food Group is planning to close its beef plant in Bad Bramstedt, Germany, in July. Approximately 250 employees …
Australia’s Nourish Foods returns to funding market
Family-owned Nourish Foods is looking to add to the A$2.3m ($1.48m) that it has raised in the past three years. The …
Lipari Foods snaps up Comercializadora Del Midwest in all-US deal
US manufacturer and distributor Lipari Foods has reached an agreement to acquire Comercializadora Del Midwest (CDM), a provider of “niche …
Campbell sells Emerald Nuts unit to Flagstone Foods
US-based food giant Campbell Soup Co. has announced the sale of the Emerald Nuts brand to Flagstone Foods. The canned soup …
Canada’s Olymel cuts 80 pork production jobs
Olymel is set to cut around 80 jobs as it eases its hog production in western Canada. The Canadian pork producer …
Greencore seeks margin recovery as private-label supplier slips to loss
Eight months into his role, Greencore CEO Dalton Philips is on a mission to restore margins and profitability as the …
Yogurt maker Stonyfield Organic doubles pouches output with expansion
Stonyfield, the US organic dairy business, is doubling its yogurt pouch production with a $7m expansion of its New Hampshire …
UK supermarket price caps will not make a difference, says BRC
The British Retail Consortium (BRC) is arguing that the UK government’s plans to implement grocery price caps in supermarkets will …