news Major confectioners to crowdsource ideas to help families snack responsibly 5 March 2018 | By George Smith (New Food) Mondelez International, Ferrero UK and Mars Wrigley Confectionery UK have thrown their weight behind Be treatwise, an initiative aimed at helping the nation have a balanced approach to treats.
webinar Clean Air -The Vital Ingredient to Food and Beverage Manufacturing 29 January 2018 | By Camfil Air is the only ingredient that is involved in every aspect of Food and Beverage Manufacturing...
news Call to ban all confectionery price promos and set sugar tax at 20 per cent 29 January 2018 | By George Smith (New Food) A new survey investigating the sugar levels of sharing packs has inspired a campaign group to push for fresh measures to tackle the rise in obesity and type 2 diabetes in the UK.
news UK lab to lead Nestlé’s confectionery research and development 23 January 2018 | By George Smith (New Food) Less than a week after selling its U.S. confectionery business to Ferrero, Nestlé has announced that its York lab will lead its confectionery research and development in future.
news Nestlé becomes first major confectioners to commercialise ‘ruby’ chocolate 19 January 2018 | By Daniel Birchmore (New Food) Four months after ruby chocolate joined dark, milk and white as a type of natural chocolate, the first new entry for 80 years, it has been scooped up by chocolate giant Nestlé.
news Ferrero and Nestlé seal the deal on $2.8 billion acquisition 17 January 2018 | By Ryan Clarke (New Food) Ferrero's conquest of the US confectionery market moves on as it begins 2018 with its third acquisition of an American sweet business in less than a year.
news Italy’s Ferrero closes in on $2.8 billion Nestlé deal 11 January 2018 | By George Smith (New Food) Having beaten chocolate giant Hershey and private equity firm Rhône Capital in an auction for Nestlé's US business, Ferrero is allegedly close to a deal which would make it the third biggest confectionery company in America.
article Confectionery In-Depth Focus 5 December 2017 | By New Food This In-Depth Focus explores changing technology in the confectionery industry and looks at Lindt & Sprüngli's chocolate production techniques.
article Issue #6 2017 – Digital Version 1 December 2017 | By New Food In this issue: managing the impact of Brexit, food regulation across cultural and geographic borders, In-Depth Focuses on fresh produce, meat & poultry and confectionery, and much more...
news No more forest will go to cocoa, biggest producing nations pledge 20 November 2017 | By George Smith (New Food) Two countries that together produce more than two-thirds of the world's cocoa have agreed to tackle deforestation through a strict framework.
news Natural sweetener stevia plant genome sequenced for the first time 27 October 2017 | By George Smith (New Food) The findings, co-funded by Coca Cola, were unveiled by PureCircle Stevia Institute at the International Congress of Nutrition in Buenos Aires last week.
news Get set for Brexit – see the full line up for Food Brexit, chaired by the John Pienaar 25 October 2017 | By George Smith (New Food) With less than a week to go, time is running out to catch food business experts putting their heads together over the challenges of Brexit.
article Is your baby food product fully protected? 23 October 2017 | By Reinhold van Ackeren. After a recent blackmail case in Germany in which baby food was poisoned with ethylene glycol, we hear from Mettler Toledo about tampering protection.
news A chance to hear what leading food industry figures think of Brexit – right on parliament’s doorstep 20 October 2017 | By George Smith (New Food) New Food is bringing together a host of experts from all over the industry in the heart of London to outline where they think Brexit is headed.
news British biscuit giants could soon become one in £400 million merger 9 October 2017 | By George Smith (New Food) Sky News has reported 2 Sisters Food Group-owned Burton's and Fox's are in merger talks which, if successful, could munch 20 per cent of the market.
