Fruit snack manufacturers must promote planned snacking and offer multi-pack formats to survive alongside less healthy, indulgent alternatives that are fuelled by impulse buys, an analyst says.
US Halloween candy spending is projected to rise this year and the major players Mars and Hershey will be raking in the profits with seasonal variants of popular brands, according to an analyst from Euromonitor.
Abar Khabo…roughly translated from Bangla means eat again or eat once more…it is an invitation to eat and keep eating, says Jadav Barui, a mithai maker from West Bengal. And of course it is also a very popular Bengali confection.
THE opening of Scotland’s first drive-through doughnut shop is scheduled for the new year, as developers put the finishing touches on a £4 million overhaul of Hermiston Gait retail rark.
Anmol Bakers, one of the leading biscuit manufacturers, launched Tejus Digestive Biscuit, which contains more atta and ajwain and is enriched with bran fibre, in New Delhi recently.
US-based food manufacturer Ralcorp has agreed to divest its remaining 20% stake in cereal producer Post to settle $200m of outstanding debt, as a part of a credit agreement.
South African food company Tiger Brands has completed the acquisition of 63.4% stake in Dangote Flour Mills, a leading Nigerian manufacturer of pasta and flour, for ZAR1.5bn ($182m).
US-based Kraft Foods has announced that it is on track to complete a three-year initiative to reduce sodium by an average of 10% across its North American portfolio by the end of 2012.
India-based Central Arecanut and Cocoa Marketing and Processing Cooperative (Campco) plans to invest INR260m ($4.87m) to boost manufacturing capacity at its plant in Dakshina Kannada, Karnataka, India.
The affluent and the moderate income groups have together held more than 65% of the Syrups & Spreads market in the UK in 2011, finds a report by Canadean – Food.
