News & Analysis on Chocolate, Candy and Cocoa
The Balkans will be the setting for the Food Technology group show 2003 to take place in Istanbul, Turkey from 27 to 30 March 2003. The exhibition will concurrently run three separate shows: Food Technology, Food Ingredients & Additives and Foodpack.
There have been a raft of Fairtrade products launched in the UK in recent months, led mainly by the retailer Co-op, but the latest launch comes from Cafédirect - a 100 per cent Fairtrade drinking chocolate targeting the high-growth premium segment.
Western Europe's cereal bars market is 'massively underexploited', according to market research analysts Datamonitor. The report suggests that this product could be a promising driver of growth for confectionery makers currently facing market saturation.
The beverage ingredients unit of Dutch company DSM Food Specialities is to offer two new ingredients for the brewing industry.