The National Confectioners Association (NCA) has announced the appointment of Lynn Wylie as senior director of industry affairs, a new position focused on building and strengthening relationships with retail customers, wholesalers, and…
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Awarded for the 17th time in 2020, the Eberhard Paech Prize, to rewards outstanding contributions to bakery. Individual people, research or working groups qualify to be awarded, but not business enterprises. The award comes with a EUR10,000…
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AHDB’s latest impact assessment of Brexit scenarios models a fall in average farm profits from around GBP42,750 a year to GBP26,285 in 2022 in the case of a hard Brexit. This will also affect cereals. For cereals, baseline farm business…
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AB Mauri North America, a leader in yeast and bakery ingredient products and solutions, will mark the 150th anniversary of its iconic brand, Fleischmann’s Yeast, June 8, 2019, at a Founders’ Day event in Fleischmanns, New York. The village…
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American bakery Muffin Mam, Inc has announced they would be expanding operations in Laurens County, South Carolina, making an USD18.8m investment and creating 114 new jobs. The Muffin Man, Inc, based in Simpsonville, South Carolina, is a…
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Jorge Martinez Garibay has been named EXPO PACK general director at PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies' Mexico office. Garibay will direct sales, marketing, operations and public relations efforts of EXPO PACK…
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U.S. grain trader Archer Daniels Midland Co (ADM) is preparing to restructure specific areas of its business, but does not consider a sale of grain handling business, Reuters reports. The process will seek voluntary early retirements by…
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Central and Eastern European private equity investor Mid Europa Partners has entered an agreement to acquire a majority stake in Mlinar from its founder, Mato Skojo, writes Croatia Week. According to the report, he will retain a stake in…
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Lesaffre is opening a new type of Baking Center™ in Austria, entirely dedicated to industrial baking. Strategically located in the heart of Europe, its mission is to support the group's industrial customers in the development of new…
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Orkla Food Ingredients has moved to purchase Zeelandia Sweden AB, a supplier of margarine, vegetable oils and bakery ingredients to the Swedish market. Zeelandia Sweden AB has most of its sales in Sweden, and exports to Finland, the Baltics…
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Lesaffre's subsidiary in Spain and Portugal, Lesaffre Ibérica, has inaugurated its new facilities for sourdough production, responding to a growing demand from Spanish and Portuguese bakers. The investment aims to satisfy the growing demand…
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Plans to redevelop a former bakery owned by Allied Bakery in Orpington, UK, are set to be approved. Allied Bakery baked its last loaf of bread in 2015, having stood since 1938, when its parent company ABF Grain Products Ltd agreed its…
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Shick Esteve, worldwide leader in ingredient handling solutions, announces the grand opening of its 108,000sqf manufacturing expansion in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. In addition to maintaining some manufacturing at Shick Esteve’s…
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C.H. Guenther & Son LLC (CHG) has announced it has acquired Mid South Baking Company (Mid South). Headquartered in Bryan, Texas, Mid South is a leading supplier of buns and English muffins to quick-serve restaurants (QSRs) in the…
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Roquette has announced the opening of a Food Customer Technical Service (CTS) Center in Singapore, strengthening its position in Asia. The company says that the Food CTS Center will enable Roquette to anticipate and respond to an increasing…
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Orkla has entered into an agreement to purchase the majority of the shares in the Greek company Stelios Kanakis Industrial and Commercial S.A, a market leader in the sale and distribution of confectionery, bakery and ice cream ingredients…
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Délifrance has added a fourth frozen viennoiserie production line at its Romans-sur-Isère factory to increase annual output by 25,000 tons, or 1.5 million croissants, pains aux raisins, pains aux chocolats and filled croissants with or…
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Hur Young-in, chairman of SPC Group, has set up a bridgehead to penetrate the WON44tr (USD38.73bn) Chinese bakery market. The group has announced that it has completed the construction of SPC Tianjin plant, which will be used as a key…
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