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Pioneer Foods makes offer to buy KWV
Interesting development in South Africa: Pioneer Foods makes offer to buy KWV. (via just-drinks.com)
Two Interesting Articles On Health Claims
Two articles on Food Product Design that clearly show the current situation regarding health claims on packaging: Ben & Jerry’s to Remove ‘All- Natural’ Claims FTC Slams POM Wonderful Over Health Claims What do you think? How will this develop in the coming months? Will more companies need to drastically change their “image”?
Juice Joint Venture for Yildiz and Eckes-Granini
Turkish firm Yildiz Holding and Germany’s Eckes-Granini Group have announced plans to set up a joint venture that will focus on the fruit juice industry. The groups said the JV will offer premium fruit juices and also create a strong retail distribution network.
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The Fortitech Blog. Strategic nutrition and fortification in food, drink and supplements.
What the eye does to taste…
Interesting read on how packaging influences one’s taste: In the research, the audience was divided between four experimental evaluations of orange juice associated with different graphics, being: pleasant/congruent, with pleasant orange pictures; unpleasant/congruent, with unpleasant orange pictures; pleasant/incongruent, with pictures of pleasant non-food objects; and unpleasant/incongruent, with pictures of unpleasant nonfood objects. The researchers discovered [...]
Commodities alone are not enough to sustain flourishing economies
Brazil is now the world’s biggest exporter not only of coffee, sugar, orange juice and tobacco but also of ethanol, beef and chicken, and the second-biggest source of soya products.The Economist
Jamba Enters Into 13 Store Purchase Agreement in the Florida Market
Jamba Juice, (NASDAQ: JMBA), a highly recognized, healthy active lifestyle brand with a portfolio of over 30 custom blended smoothies and delicious better- for-you menu offerings, announced today the signing of a purchase agreement for 13 stores in Florida with highly experienced and former international master brand, multi-unit franchise operators, Arturo Zindel, Jordi Zindel, Guillermo [...]
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