Consumers in Germany and France are more likely to respond to positive clean label terminology on food products than ‘free-from’ claims that are popular in the UK, according to FoodNavigator.com.
More and more Swedish consumers are switching from low-fat to high-fat products in order to lose weight, picking up on a trend that was noticeable several years ago, but that has since accelerated.
Shipping lines are expected to incur slower freight rate growth next year compared to this year, according to TransportWeekly.com. Container traffic would grow 12% in 2010 but only 6% in 2011.
UPS has started offering a new ocean freight service that promises up to 20% faster door-to-door delivery than other less-than-container-load (LCL) services on the market, according to the Shipping Gazette.
Bred by Crown Research Institute Plant & Food, the new pear – or cultivar – is known for the time being as PremP109. And it is an apple pear, a term increasingly used in the US. It is a cross between a Chinese and a Japanese pear and it is hoped it will have strong consumer appeal in global fruit markets abroad.
The report said researchers from food-maker Mars, technology giant IBM, several universities and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) have almost completely sequenced the genome of the Forastero cacao tree, which accounts for 80-90% of the world’s cocoa production.
Iconic Kiwi whiteware manufacturer Fisher & Paykel Appliances has made an internationally significant breakthrough in fridge technology which could cut refrigerator power use by a third.
Fonterra has completed an NZ$8 million investment in its UHT milk processing facilities in Auckland in a bid to meet growing demand in Asia and the Pacific, according to DairyReporter.com.
Global Industry Analyst (GIA) estimates that the global probiotics market will be worth USD$28.8 billion (NZD$39.34 billion) by 2015, even though the market is still considered to be in infancy, according to NutraIngredients.com.
Retail sales at e-shops more than tripled between 2007 and 2009, much faster than the averaged annualised 18% growth of retail sales in general during the same period.
At Oishii Nippon, a fruit shop that recently opened its doors in Dubai, prices tend to carry a decidedly premium tag, with a piece of melon from Japan costing nearly as much as 40 kilograms of red apples from Chile, according to GulfNews.com.
Japan’s Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda confirmed that Japan has intervened in the currency market for the first time since March 2004 to stem the yen’s rise, which has spiked to a 15-year highs against the US dollar and severely battered Japan’s export-led recovery, according to Xinhua news.
Carmakers Daimler, Renault and Nissan are redoubling their electric cars effort in the race for market share in a world of tighter emission rules, according to GulfNews.
Nestle is investing in a new chilling centre in Kilinochchi, Sri Lanka, to take advantage of peace in the north to expand the dairy industry there, according to DairyReporter.com.
A growing desire for premium and indulgent ice cream has fed high value growth in Western Europe, helping manufacturers defy the recession, according to DairyReporter.com.
The Global Shippers’ Forum (GSF) want to outlaw rate-making cartels and have urged governments in Asia to initiate reforms which were in line with competitive global practices such as those which now existed in Europe.
Fonterra has completed an NZ$8 million investment in its UHT milk processing facilities in Auckland in a bid to meet growing demand in Asia and the Pacific, according to DairyReporter.com.
A growing desire for premium and indulgent ice cream has fed high value growth in Western Europe, helping manufacturers defy the recession, according to DairyReporter.com.
