News & Analysis on Chocolate, Candy and Cocoa
The last few years have seen a quickening in the pace of new product launches by the world's top two soft drinks companies, with new flavour or formula variants of the traditional Coca-Cola and Pepsi brands leading the way.
Competition in European flavours heated up this week as Cargill, the largest private company in the US, signed on the dotted line for UK flavours group The Duckworth Group (TDG).
Forging a deeper share of the fat replacer market, the Circle Group Holdings subsidiary FiberGel Technologies will supply its Z-Trim zero calorie fat substitute to Swiss food giant Nestle, under a new link-up announced this week.
The Estonian Brewers' Association is concerned that a requirement to buy back empty beer cans for recycling could get out of hand once the country joins the EU in May. Trans-border purchases of beer, already very high, will increase substantially when...