Latest News in the food Industry

8 Apr 2016

Market prices for dairy commodities are currently at a 10-year low, meaning that now is the perfect time for food manufacturers in Europe to lock into a fixed-price deal for their dairy ingredients according to Greenfields.

6 Apr 2016

Novozymes has launched Saphera, a lactase enzyme that the company claims sets a new standard for production and quality of a wide range of lactose-free products, including milk and fermented dairy products such as yogurt.

1 Apr 2016

According to a new report by Euromonitor, few ingredients in recent memory have experienced protein’s sustained and meteoric rise, with marketers scrambling to piece together the increasingly disparate drivers affecting consumption.

1 Apr 2016

FrieslandCampina DMV has developed two types of protein products - whey and casein - for all the athletes of TeamNL, the elite athletes of the Netherlands.

30 Mar 2016

A new report from Research & Markets says that the global infant nutrition market is worth $50 billion and will be the fastest growing packaged food segmentgrowing at a rate of 7% per annum between now and 2020.

30 Mar 2016

Manzo Pharmaceuticals has announced that it has solidified deals with GMP- and FDA approved, USA-based firms to handle manufacturing, and encapsulating and packaging the company's Lacto-Freedom probiotic.

25 Mar 2016

Arla and Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) have agreed to enter into a joint venture that includes the construction of a small dairy plant in the U.S. for cheddar cheese production.

24 Mar 2016

Fonterra has announced what it describes as a good performance in the first half of the current financial year, with EBIT of $NZ665 million up 77% and net profit after tax of $409 million up 123%.

24 Nov 2015

Eating on the go continues to be one of the leading trends targeted by the food and drinks industry as formal meal patterns and increasingly busy lifestyles have brought about something of a revolution in the format and content of our diets. Nearly al...

9 Nov 2015

Lianne van den Bos, Senior Food Analyst at Euromonitor International, tries to make sense of how things will work out in the highly competitive yoghurt market.

19 Feb 2015

DSM has published the results of a survey it conducted on the international perception of yogurt amongst 6,000 men and women  in Brazil, China, France, Poland, Turkey as well as the USA. Among its conclusions are that, encouragingly for yogurt manufact...

19 Feb 2015

Arla has issued an update on how it sees the market and its performance ahead of publication of its annual results later this month. 2014 was a complex year, the company said. The farmer-owned company achieved one of its best results ever in a market i...