Bidding starts soon for Degussa ingredients unit
Bidding for the food ingredients business at Degussa, Germany's third largest chemicals group, could be underway by the start of the second quarter.
Archives for February 10, 2005
Unilever rejigs management as core brand sales flag
Anglo-Dutch consumer giant Unilever is set to overhaul its management structure - a move which it claims will help restore top-line sales growth and allow it to draw a line under what it called an "unsatisfactory" 2004 performance, Tom Armitage reports.
Cloetta Fazer turns to core brands as profits slide
Scandinavian confectioner Cloetta Fazer remains optimistic that it can turnaround flagging Polish sales, despite posting disappointing 2004 operating profits, Tom Armitage reports.
Increase in counterfeit food drives innovations
Seizures of conterfeit food products and medicines entering the EU increased by 77 per cent from 2002 to 2003, according to the European Commission. Foodstuffs seized included sweets, waffles, chewing gum and even apples.
Splenda fights back
Tate & Lyle's Splenda brand in the news again this week as McNeil Nutritionals, the table-top supplier of this increasingly popular sweetener, takes the US sugar industry to court.