The association reports that the NACS show reported that a record number of buyers fueled a 7.2 percent surge in attendance this year, as attendance hit 24,056 people, the second highest ever and only 309 attendees short of the record set in 2004.
Nestlé Waters North America (NWNA) announced that its current president and chief executive officer, Kim Jeffery will be succeeded by Tim Brown, currently the president and chief executive officer of Nestlé Canada.
Corn futures on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) closed down on Monday. The DEC’12 contract closed at $7.180/bu; down 20.75 ¢ /bu and 36.0 ¢ /bu lower than last week at this time.
Uncertainty surrounds the future of 13,000 food manufacturing jobs today, as Dutch food manufacturing giant Vion announced plans to sell its UK food businesses.
More than 400 workers at chilled convenience food manufacturer Greencore’s Hull factory will receive up to £1.2M after winning an employment tribunal dealing with cuts in their pay.
On November 7, 2012, Californians voted on Proposition 37, which would have required that foods produced from genetically engineered crops be labeled as such.
U.S. beer drinkers are almost four times more likely to call themselves satisfied with imported beer compared to domestic, according to a new survey by YouGov.
FoodDrinkEurope has welcomed the latest development in Denmark following the announcement made earlier in the month to abolish the ‘Fat Tax’ introduced in the country in October 2011, and to revoke plans to introduce a ‘Sugar Tax’.
Published: Nov 19, 2012
By: Petchanet Pratruangkrai
The British business sector has urged the Thai government to start formal negotiations for a Thailand-European Union free-trade agreement (FTA) early next year.
California's Proposition 37 was narrowly defeated last week (53 to 47). If it had been passed it would have required the labelling of all foods containing GM within two years.
Naturex was announced as NuW Excellence Awards finalist and has achieved highly commended status in the Sustainability & Environmental Initiative of the Year category by UBM plc main organiser of the Health Ingredients Europe event.
