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Italian Frozen Food Sales Up 2.9% After Weak Performance In 2016

Frozen food sales in the Italian retail channel have grown by 2.9% from January to August 2017, compared to a flat performance in 2016 (+0.1%). This com...

IKEA Signs Uganda Coffee Deal, Targets Cocoa And Nut Farmers

IKEA will start sourcing single-origin coffee from Uganda, as it adds food-related businesses to its social-entrepreneur partnerships. The world&rs...

Italian Pasta Producers Oppose Compulsory Origin Labelling

Italy's association for pasta producers has said it is opposing a law that will require the labelling of the origin of the grain used to manufacture pasta....

There’s So Much Pain In Agriculture That Traders Are Leaving

The success of modern farmers has become the misery of traders at the world’s biggest agriculture merchants. Profits are shrinking as years of bum...

Hilton Food Group Eyes £80 Million Acquisition Of Seachill

Retail meat-packing company Hilton Food Group has announced plans to acquire Seachill - the UK business of seafood company Icelandic Group. The company...

Lidl UK To Develop Distribution Centre In Peterborough

Lidl’s UK operation has announced that it plans to develop a new 754,000-square-foot distribution centre in Peterborough, alongside developer Roxhill...

Hilton Food Group Expands Operations To New Zealand

Retail meat-packing company Hilton Food Group has announced that it is investing €33 million (NZ $54 million) in a new facility in New Zealand. The...

WITRON Automates Omni-Channel Logistics Processes At Hoogvliet

Introducing an exciting project for WITRON Logistik + Informatik GmbH: a state-of-the-art, automated distribution centre in Bleiswijk, the Netherlands, whi...