Dawn Food Products has reached an agreement to acquire the Unifine Food and Bake Ingredients business of Royal Cosun, Breda, The Netherlands.

Bosses at biscuit and cereal bar maker Northumbrian Fine Foods have completed a management buyout.

Mettler-Toledo has acquired the Smiths Detection Product Inspection division and will adopt the well-known Eagle brand of food x-ray inspection systems.

Russia's grain export ban is set to continue until the autumn, the country's agriculture minister confirmed.

The Whole Grain Stamp now appears on 5,000 products found on grocery shelves around the world, marking a 25 per cent increase since July 2010 when the stamp reached the 4,000-product mark, the Whole Grains Council said on March 29.

Chronos BTH recently supplied British flour manufacturer Shipton Mill Limited with a packing system.

Bizerba industrial weighing machines stand for innovative technology, precision, operational reliability and robustness.

Loders Croklaan has introduced two shortening products designed to reduce saturated fat and eliminate trans fat in such applications as cookies, cakes and muffins.

Product benchmarking helps companies judge how their product will fare against the competition - a valuable insight into likely commercial performance.

With cost optimisation high on the agenda , bakery ingredients manufacturer, Gb Plange, has organised an Energie Development Day on May 11.

A UK pressure group against the use of processing aids in bread production is backing an amendment to EU regulation that will require foods frozen, and then defrosted before sale, to be labelled ‘defrosted'.

India, the world's second-largest wheat grower, may end a ban on exports of the grain as production is expected to exceed forecasts, reported Bloomberg.

Resistance to sharply higher prices was blamed by the International Grains Council (IGC) for a reduction in its estimate of world trade in wheat flour in the 2010-11 season.

Cargill has appointed Laura Witte as corporate vice-president, general counsel and corporate secretary, from June 1.

Wheat consumption in the U.K. will be lower than previous estimates, with usage declines in industrial and feeding purposes, according to a report released on Wednesday from the U.K.'s Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs…

The United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) March 2011 edition of the Crop Prospects and Food Situation report is forecasting world wheat production in 2011 at 676 million tonnes, which represents an increase of 3.4 per…

The Irish Kylemore bakery group recorded pre-tax losses of almost €1.4 million in the year to the end of March 2010 as turnover dropped and the company made a series of impairments, reported The Irish Times.

At Interpack this year Tanis Food Tec (TFT) will introduce two new process applications that help manufacturers to control their product.