Suntory distributes Pepsi products in Japan, and it claims the drinks were developed in response to feedback from over 100 Japanese consumers who desired a new soft drink option.Suntory and Pepsi have announced that they will release a cola drink exclusively for the Japanese market called J-Cola.
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The deal is limited to the lucrative Paris market and its suburbs.Singapore – US e-commerce giant Amazon has made further inroads into food retail in France as Casino’s upmarket Monoprix chain became the first local retailer to agree to sell groceries via Amazon.
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Over the coming years the consortium aims to place in the hands of its members the technology, knowledge and insights that can guide the development of ground-breaking, personalized products and services.BASF has joined the Personalized Nutrition and Health consortium founded by TNO and Wageningen U...
Tate & Lyle claims that the expansion is part of a strategy to strengthen the brand’s position in the Asia Pacific market.Tate & Lyle has doubled the size of its food application laboratory in Shanghai, as the brand aims to advance the development of ingredients for healthy food and beverages....
Uniting independent F&B heroes with creative pop-up conceptsSingapore - 8M Real Estate, the name behind Singapore’s most iconic shophouse restoration projects, reveals the second phase of its latest hospitality concept, Ann Siang House. Following the opening of the rooms in March, and in line ...
The agreement provides the new company with access to Plant & Food Research berry genetics for the development of proprietary new varieties. A joint venture company has been created to breed and develop new unique berry varieties to be marketed exclusively by Māori-owned firm Miro Limited Partnersh...
Through the D-Lab, Danone Nutricia Research hopes to play a more meaningful role in the provision of innovative healthcare solutions.Singapore – Danone Nutricia Research inaugurated its new Precision Nutrition D-Lab at Biopolis Singapore. The lab will be a global hub of innovation, using ...
Ajinomoto Group operates several specialist arms around the world, and Circle Foods will join its Ajinimoto Windsor frozen food division.Tyson Foods has agreed to sell its Circle Foods division to Japanese brand Ajinomoto Group for an undisclosed sum.
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The facility will provide a collaborative environment where Firmenich chefs and food technologists can work together with customers to develop flavours.Firmenich has opened a new culinary discovery centre in Bangkok, Thailand, to serve as the company’s hub for Southeast Asia.
The facility wil...
Capacity Expansion Projects Take Shape at DuPont Nutrition & Health Sites in Germany & FranceThe official ground-breaking ceremony for a new deep-freeze warehouse took place recently at the site of the DuPont Nutrition & Health (Danisco Deutschland GmbH) in Niebüll, Germany. The new storage...
CR Beer’s best-known brand, Snow, is the world’s largest selling beer, driven in the most part by domestic sales.Heineken is reportedly in talks to sell its Chinese business to China Resources Beer (CR Beer). It is believed that any deal would be worth more than $1 billion, with CR Beer tho...
While Coca-Cola dabbled in the wine business in the 1970s, the Japanese experiment is unique in the company’s 125-year history.Coca-Cola plans to launch its first ever alcoholic drink in Japan, in a suprising departure for a US company identified with cola and other non-alcoholic beverages.
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This expansion investment will help the company continue to innovate and bring new products to the market. Nestlé Canada will invest CAD 51.5 million ($39.6 million) to increase production capabilities at its London ice cream factory in Ontario, Canada.
The factory, which supplies Canada wit...
Dine Brands also will close 30 to 40 IHOP locations, while developing 85 to 100 new restaurants. Singapore – The recent closing of an Applebee’s restaurant in Independence was merely a down payment on what’s to come for the formerly Kansas City-based chain.
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As part of an initial run, the new tea bags have been made using a new material that is 100 per cent plant-based and 100 per cent renewable. Unilever tea brand PG Tips will move to fully biodegradable, plant-based material in its tea bags over the course of 2018.
As part of an initial run, the new ...
The company claims that it has adopted a different business model in China. American nutrition supplements company Herbalife Ltd. has created a China Growth and Impact Investment Fund to accelerate growth of its business in China.
The RMB600 million ($90 million) fund will focus on five key areas: ...
The facility represents AB InBev’s first dedicated craft beer facility in Asia.AB InBev’s venture capital division ZX Ventures has announced the opening of a new craft brewery in Wuhan, China in order to tap into the growing market for premium beers in the country.
The facility represents A...
The agreement was signed and exchanged between I-Mei Foods General Manager Luis Ko and Lohas Biotech Chairman Jian Ming-ren.I-Mei Foods and Lohas Biotech jointly hosted a press conference in Taipei to sign an agreement for future cooperation on development of food products made from the Shampignon m...
