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Mondelēz commits to cutting emissions in Ghanan cocoa supply chain
Chocolate manufacturer Mondelēz has said it will ramp up its efforts to work against deforestation and unsustainable farming in the world's biggest cocoa producing nations.
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Food provenance group sets out aim to ’empower the consumer’
Happerley has created a trade network that provides certification for food suppliers by tracing their products right back to the primary producer.
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Steak bite study could save meat industry millions
Using a texture analyser that mimics the human jaw, Agriculture & Horticulture Development Board experts have shown that cuts of muscle previously used for slow cooking are tender enough to be sold as fast cooking steaks.
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Ferrero and Nestlé seal the deal on $2.8 billion acquisition
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.
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Big data could soon improve decision making for farmers and fishermen
A project co-funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme is looking at how massive flows of information collected from the soil, the air and satellites can boost agriculture and aquiculture.
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Italy’s Ferrero closes in on $2.8 billion Nestlé deal
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.
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Wetherspoon’s Brexit beer mat ‘slammed’ by food and farming alliance
The CEO of Sustain took aim at JD Wetherspoons pro-Brexit beer mats last month, questioning the claim that leaving the EU would cut food prices.
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Campbell Soup buys snack manufacturer to create a $4.7bn empire
The landscape of America's snack market has changed with the manufacturer of Lays selling their line of products to Campbell Soup.
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Leadership Series: New Year’s resolutions for managing Brexit
With a date for Brexit debatably set, 2018 is going to be a busy year for businesses getting ready for a range of eventualities. As part of New Food's leadership series, the Food and Drink Federation's Helen Munday tells us about the federation's Brexit priorities and offers a word of…
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Unilever sells spreads business for €6.8 billion
Household names like I Can't Believe it's Not Butter and Flora have been bought up by American global investment firm KKR.
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Stay successful, explore blockchain – economists advise
An economic forecaster and analyser has advised businesses to get on the blockchain band wagon if they want to remain relevant in the future.
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A fine year: Top eight trends for wine in 2018
Go big and don't write off prosecco just yet - a list of the top eight up and coming trends from one of the UK's foremost wine sellers.
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England’s wine industry under the spotlight
It's been on the up for the last decade, but just how well is England’s wine scene performing at the moment? Lycetts, a specialist wine insurance provider, investigates.
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With relish: consumers happily eat food made from waste ingredients
Food waste is a global problem. Every year, humans throw away 1.3 billion tonnes, a third of our production. One solution may have emerged – feeding it back to us.
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Food legal diversity – harmonising across cultural divides?
Global differences in the manner and content of the regulation of food safety and other food-related issues stem from a wide variety of sources including history, culture, fear, protectionism and politics. Obviously these categories – if categories they are – are overlapping rather than mutually exclusive. Bernd van der Meulen,…
