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NZ: New Zealand Dairies plans Asia baby food push (MEM)
New Zealand Dairies Limited (NZDL) is committing NZ$100m (US$74.5m) to expand production facilities at its Studholme site.
US: Overseas markets buoy PepsiCo
PepsiCo has today (23 July) posted double-digit sales and earnings growth for the first half of the year.
US: Inflation hits Costco profits
US warehouse club retailer Costco has warned that profits are likely to come in “well below” market expectations due to surging energy prices and rising costs.
- UK: Tate & Lyle “on-track” for FY progress (REG)UK sugar giant Tate & Lyle has said that it is off to a satisfactory start to the year, with its first quarter profits broadly in line with the comparable period of last year.
- CHINA: Japan's Meiji eyes Chinese sales growth (MEM)Japan’s largest confectioner Meiji Seika Kaisha is to boost its confectionery output in China by adding production lines for chocolate and chewing gum at its plant in Shanghai.
- US: Underlying profits fall at Hershey Hershey, the US confectionery giant, today (23 July) posted lower underlying quarterly profits as the company upped marketing expenditure in bid to boost sales.
- Just the Answer – Paul Aikens, Mars Food (MEM)Mars Food, the US giant's non-confectionery arm in the UK, has just undertaken its first new product launch for nine years, with the introduction of the Asian ready meal concept, PurAsia. In this month’s Just the Answer interview, Michelle Russell spoke with Mars Food marketing director Paul Aikens about the launch, the Asian ready meals category and ‘gastrosexual’ consumers.
- NZ: Silver Fern presses on with restructuring (REG)Silver Fern Farms, New Zealand's largest meat processor, is to make further cuts to its manufacturing base in the country with the closure of part of its site in Canterbury.
- SPAIN: Ebro denies bid for sugar business (MEM)Ebro Puleva today (23 July) confirmed to just-food that it has not received a bid valued at EUR400m (US$637m) from a government-controlled savings bank for its sugar business.
- AUS: Organic agriculture booming The market for organic food in Australia has seen dramatic growth in recent years, with farm-gate sales increasing by 80% since 2004, a study has found.
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Just the Answer – Paul Aikens, Mars Food (MEM)
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