Food and beverage


  • Kerry 2024 Global Taste Charts help product and menu developers shape innovation

    Kerry has announced it has created series of incisive, interactive charts for 13 individual regional markets for the global food and beverage community. The 2024 global taste charts, A World of Future Tastes, is the culmination of a year-long research, which translates into charts that track flavour adoption and evolution around the world and provide…


  • Blue Elephant expands authentic Thai flavours with premium range for the UK

    Blue Elephant, a brand renowned for its heritage and expertise in Thai cuisine, as well as previously having a restaurant in London, announces the widespread availability of its premium products in the UK.  With over 100 products available, the brand sees this move marks as a significant milestone in making authentic Thai flavours accessible to…


  • Blue Elephant expands Thai flavours with premium range for the UK

    Blue Elephant, a brand renowned for its heritage and expertise in Thai cuisine, as well as previously having a restaurant in London, announces the widespread availability of its premium products in the UK.  With over 100 products available, the brand sees this move marks as a significant milestone in making authentic Thai flavours accessible to…


  • One line does the work of two as Qupaq denester improves meat-packing efficiency

    Kaufland’s Osterfeld meat-packing centre has achieved efficiency breakthroughs with with Qupaq’s tray denesting and product loading technology. In the wake of the successful integration of a Qupaq solution at its meat-packing center in Möckmühl in 2017, the German hypermarket chain Kaufland initiated a similar investment for its Osterfeld facility earlier this year. The project was…


  • Nutiani identifies value-seeking consumers as top health and nutrition trend for 2024

    Nutiani’s latest research reveals a consumer shift towards high-quality, science-backed, and multifunctional nutrition amid balancing health and economic concerns. The company’s newly released Top 10 Health and Nutrition Trends for 2024 infographic draws from its recently refreshed Nutiani Ipsos Consumer Health and Nutrition Index 2023 to unveil how inflationary pressures have shaped consumer behaviours in…


  • Fischer Farms showcases revolutionary food production overhaul to DEFRA Secretary

    Fischer Farms, the firm behind one of the world’s largest vertical farms, welcomed the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to its new farm in Norwich. Defra Secretary, Steve Barclay, visited Fischer Farms’ new state-of-the-art 25,000m2 vertical farm at Food Enterprise Park, alongside Norfolk County council leader, Kay Mason Billig, Tom McCabe,…


  • EU emerging as the next Silicon Valley for cultivated meat innovation

    The EU’s gold standard regulatory framework is positioning it as the Silicon Valley of cultivated meat and promising economic and environmental triumphs. According to food awareness organisation, ProVeg International, the EU Agriculture Ministers are due to meet on 23 January to discuss the regulation of cultivated meat within the 27 Member State bloc, with concerns expected…


  • OFI’s new F&B Solutions Platform takes the lead in addressing evolving consumer tastes

    ofi today announces the next phase of its customer first strategy with the launch of a new commercial platform – ofi F&B Solutions – which will be part of its Ingredients & Solutions reporting segment. The new F&B Solutions platform consolidates ofi’s current category solutions capabilities and innovation infrastructure to better support a diverse range…


  • OFI’s new F&B Solutions Platform takes the lead in addressing evolving tastes

    ofi today announces the next phase of its customer first strategy with the launch of a new commercial platform – ofi F&B Solutions – which will be part of its Ingredients & Solutions reporting segment. The new F&B Solutions platform consolidates ofi’s current category solutions capabilities and innovation infrastructure to better support a diverse range…


  • SIG enters strategic partnership with Mupy through copacking collaboration

    Mupy offers its soy and juice drinks in two SIG carton formats: SIG MiniBloc 200 ml and SIG MidiBloc 1,000 ml. Posted: 22 January 2024 Share this page SIG recently signed a partnership for SIG to provide carton packs and filling services to Mupy via a copacker. The provider of packaging said SIG is Mupy’s…