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Ebro Foods
Ebro to invest in Riviana Foods rice production
Ebro Foods is investing in a factory in the US – a market where the...
Post Holdings vehicle 8th Avenue to buy Ebro’s Ronzoni pasta brand
US-based 8th Avenue Food & Provisions, a consumer products holding company established by Weetabix owner Post Holdings, is to acquire a local pasta brand.
Lustucru ‘eyes move for pasta peer Panzani’
The future of Panzani, the France-based pasta business owned by Spain's Ebro Foods, is the subject of reported takeover interest.
Ebro weighing-up sale of Ronzoni brand
The Spanish food group is considering offloading another brand, following the sale of pasta assets in the US and Canada in the last five months.
The top 20 most-read just-food news stories in 2020
Dealing with the impact of Covid-19 on production, the growing corporate interest in direct-to-consumer and new stock-market listings of emerging plant-based businesses caught your eye this year. US plant-based firm…
2020 – The year in food industry M&A
As this year has been dominated by Covid-19, it is impossible to examine M&A activity in the global food industry without doing so through the prism of the virus. For…
TreeHouse Foods to acquire US pasta brands from Ebro Foods
TreeHouse Foods has entered an agreement to acquire the branded pasta business in the US owned by Spain's Ebro Foods, which recently sealed a deal to sell its dried pasta…
Ebro Foods sells Catelli pasta business in Canada to Barilla
Spain's Ebro Foods has agreed to sell its Catelli dried pasta business in Canada to Italian counterpart Barilla, along with a production facility in Montreal, Quebec. The deal is being…
Ebro Foods sets up Middle East “hub”, mulls Egypt disposal
Spain-based rice and pasta major Ebro Foods has announced plans to make changes to its operations in the Middle East. Ebro is setting up a "hub" for the Middle East market…
Suitors ‘express interest in Ebro pasta unit’
A number of interested parties have reportedly emerged for Ebro Foods' pasta operations in North America, assets the Spanish group is open to selling. Spanish business daily Expansión has reported there are…
