News on Food Beverages

2010-03-12 L. A. mayor seeks to freeze spending by city departments L. A. NOW Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa sent a letter to city departments Wednesday demanding a freeze on much of their spending, from the purchase of new furniture to the use of food and beverages at city events.

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Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa sent a letter to city departments Wednesday demanding a freeze on much of their spending, from the purchase of new furniture to the use of food and beverages at city events. With the city facing.

2010-03-06 Wimm-Bill-Dann Foods cut to equal-weight - MarketWatch

FRANKFURT (MarketWatch) -- Russian dairy and beverages producer Wimm-Bill-Dann Foods

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FRANKFURT (MarketWatch) -- Russian dairy and beverages producer Wimm-Bill-Dann Foods was downgraded to equal-weight from overweight at Morgan Stanley on Friday. The broker cited greater risks from milk regulation combined with the stock reaching its usd. 22. 10 price target. - WBD Wimm-Bill-Dann Foods

2010-03-05 Reportlinker Adds US Food and Beverage Additives Industry -- NEW YORK, March 4 /PRNewswire/ --

Flavor products and alternative sweeteners will remain the largest product types in the US food and beverage additive market. Although the flavors segment is generally mature, the constant emergence of new food and beverage products continues to create new demand for flavors and enhancers. The inclusion of functional additives such as probiotics in a widening array of foods and beverages will benefit flavor demand, as these nutraceuticals are often associated with a bitter taste that must be masked by flavor additives. Among alternative sweeteners, aspartame will continue to account for the largest share of demand, based primarily on its widespread usage in diet carbonated soft drinks. However, more rapid gains will be achieved by sucralose, acesulfame potassium (ace-K) and certain polyols. Additionally, trends favoring natural

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2010-03-03 Nestle acquires frozen pizza business from Kraft Foods

The acquisition will enable Nestle to enhance its frozen food activities in North America and complement its existing ice cream direct-store-delivery. It will also allow Nestle to strengthen its position in the frozen pizza category and a natural fit with Nestles focus on delivering convenient, premium, wholesome and nutritious frozen food for consumers around the globe. The divestiture will enable Kraft Foods to better focus its resources on priority global brands and categories.

Nestle S. A. , a Switzerland-based food and beverage company, has acquired the frozen pizza business in the US and Canada from Kraft Foods, Inc. , a US-based food and beverages company.

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2010-03-02 Australian manufacturing PMI climbs 2. 8 points to 53. 8

However, the consumer-related sectors of food and beverages and clothing and footwear exposed to higher interest rates and fading fiscal stimulus, saw activity contract. Activity also fell moderately in the wood, wood products and furniture and miscellaneous manufactures sectors.

Production was stable in the food and beverages; wood, wood products and furniture; chemicals, petroleum and coal products; machinery and equipment; and miscellaneous manufactures sectors. The clothing and footwear sector saw a sharp fall in production.

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2010-03-01 Fast Track trade show sold out - Martinsville Bulletin

The show will begin Tuesday with VIP night, an invitation-only night for exhibitors and their guests. Again this year, VIP night will feature Taste of Martinsville Henry County, in which 14 restaurants and caterers will offer food samples. Alcoholic beverages, soft drinks and water also will be available.

Also new this year, each visitor will be given a punch card for food. Taste vendors will punch the cards when they offer samples. That means visitors will be allowed to sample each vendors food only once, Witt said.

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This years sold-out Fast Track trade show will feature a new location, changes designed to give the first night a more professional atmosphere and more than 20 first-time exhibitors. - Martinsville Virginia newspaper online Henry Henry County small town Piedmont news sports obituaries obituary accent opinion recipes advertisers weddings classifieds classified ads

2010-02-28 Health Alcopops only look innocent, hook kids on booze Seattle Times Newspaper

A year or so ago, Anheuser-Busch and MillerCoors agreed after complaints from some attorneys general, including Ohios Richard Cordray to reformulate their popular drinks. FDA spokesman Michael Herndon explained that the companies removed the added caffeine from Tilt, Bud Extra and Sparks, agreeing not to produce any caffeinated alcoholic beverages in the future.

In November, the U. S. Food and Drug Administration sent 27 letters to manufacturers and distributors of caffeinated alcoholic drinks, challenging them to scientifically prove that the drinks are safe. So far, the FDA has received 19 answers and is reviewing the information.

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2010-02-26 Coca-Cola Reverses Former Position On Bottling Plants; Read An In-Depth Overview And Analysis Of Coke And Pepsi (Published

Ms. Torres: The Coca-Cola Company, over the last five years, under former CEO Neville Isdell and now current CEO, Muhtar Kent, made a point to address that there are not only operational issues but also fundamental issues that they need to work through. And one of them had to do with efficiencies in the system, which flows through to the relationship with their bottlers, being that Coke is the brand owner and the bottler actually produces, sells and distributes the beverages. You have to have a seamless relationship from when the product is actually created to when it gets to the consumer.

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2010-02-25 January Consumer Price Index Up 1. 3 Per Cent ::

In accounting for the increase in the index for Food and Non-Alcoholic Beverages, the department said it was the result of increases for Food At Home ( 0. 8 per cent); Food Away From Home ( 2. 1 per cent); and Coffee, Tea, Cocoa and Non-Alcoholic Beverages ( 0. 4 per cent).

The rise was due to the increase in the Food and Non-Alcoholic Beverages and Non-Food indices by 1. 2 per cent and 1. 4 per cent from a year ago and by 0. 2 and 0. 1 per cent respectively when compared to preceding December.

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2010-02-24 Food / Drink news item relating to Kerry Foods Ltd,

Kerry Group, the global ingredients and flavours and consumer foods group, turned in a near 4 pct. increase in profits despite lower revenues caused by the slowdown in economic growth that adversely affected consumer confidence which led to increased personal saving and reduced expenditure on food and beverages in most markets.

The company said it had made excellent progress in 2009, despite the impact of the challenging economic conditions in all major economies on consumer purchasing. The slowdown in economic growth in all regions had adversely affected consumer confidence which led to increased personal saving and reduced expenditure on food and beverages in most markets.

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Kerry Group, the global ingredients and flavours and consumer foods group, turned in a near 4 pct. increase in profits despite lower revenues caused by the slowdown in economic growth that adversely affected consumer confidence which led to increased personal saving and reduced expenditure on food and beverages in most markets. - Food / drink