News & Analysis on Chocolate, Candy and Cocoa
The Aston Group, which has ambitions of becoming the biggest raw vegetable oil manufacturer in Eastern Europe, has begun supplying retailers with refined deodorised oil from its $60 million extracting plant MEZ Volshebnii Kray, writes Angela...
Breakthrough science for the popular fruit ingredient, the strawberry, as UK scientists construct the world's first molecular map for the wild strawberry, opening up opportunities to create market leading varieties with improved flavours.
Russia's OST group, one of the country's biggest alcohol producers, has built a new bottle plant near Moscow which will supply it with up to 600 million bottles a year - and save it more than $10 million, writes Angela Drujinina.
The controversial issue of nutritional profiles will remain one of the biggest hurdles for EU legislation on health claims but recent reports suggest that Germany may be ready to concede some elements of profiling, reports Dominique Patton.
CSM, the €2.8 billion Dutch bakery ingredients company, is still hoping for a year end close on the sale of its confectionery unit, that together with biochemicals, sugar and bakery supplies complete the CSM stable.