The govt will offer 53.6% of the state-run brewer in Dec 18 sale
Vietnam is seeking to raise at least US$4.8 billion (S$6.5 billion) in the country’s biggest stake sale as an offering in a state-run brewer attracts potential bidders including Anheuser-Busch and Asahi Group Holdings.
The governme...
The restaurant is the first outside of the southern commercial hub Ho Chi Minh City.McDonald’s opened its first branch recently in the historic heart of Hanoi, a conservative city renowned for its traditional and inexpensive Vietnamese staples.
People lined up for Big Macs and Chicken McNuggets a...
The company’s products were made and packaged in Miami.
Ginnybakes, maker of cookies, bars, crumbles and baking mixes that were organic, gluten-free and kosher, has closed and is liquidating its assets, court records show.
Founded by Ginny Simon of Miami Beach, Ginnybakes looked to be a family b...
Samples tested over the past one year discovered milk that was unfit for human consumption. Concern has been raised by the Kenya Dairy Board (KDB) over unsafe milk sold by dairy farmers that contain high residues of drugs such as antibiotics, pesticides and preservatives.
Samples tested over t...
The new product will be introduced in a small market outside of the U.S. in the first half of 2018. Coca-Cola has created a stevia-sweetened soda that not only has no sugar and zero calories, but lacks the aftertaste prevalent in many products containing the ingredient.
The company had looked at do...
The researchers theorized that hydrothermal liquefaction presented a uniquely energy-efficient and universal option.A team of researchers from Skoltech and the Russian Academy of Sciences Joint Institute for High Temperatures have proposed converting food waste into biofuel via hydrothermal liquefac...
The five-year pact lays the foundation for the identification and implementation of specific, joint scientific projects.The University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) has pursued the initiative with the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) t...
The policy will be effective after two months. Ethiopia is planning to prepare its first-ever National Food and Nutrition Policy to fulfill the nation’s ambition to end malnutrition and stunting by 2030.
The policy will focus on complimentary feeding for children under five as these periods are c...
TSSG researchers already have a long history in the field of smart agriculture, working to provide novel ICT solutions to the agricultural sector.Telecommunications Software & Systems Group (TSSG), a part of Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland, will collaborate with agri-food and ICT rese...
NIFA Aquaculture Research Program grants support the development of a globally competitive and profitable U.S. aquaculture industry.The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) has announced grants to support the development of environmentally and e...
The company has already certified four Nestlé Waters bottling facilities.Nestlé Waters announced today that it would strengthen its collaboration with the Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS) to certify 20 factories by 2020.
The company has already certified four Nestlé Waters b...
The Centre will serve as a gateway to the University by exploring solutions to food insecurity and malnutrition. The University of North Florida has launched the Centre for Nutrition and Food Security, which will be housed in the Brooks College of Health.
In the United States, one in six Americans ...
DanoneWave’s aim is to produce healthy and plant-based products using sustainable agricultural practices.DanoneWave is planning to expand its plant-based beverage manufacturing operations with up to $60 million investment in a US facility. DanoneWave came into existence after Danone complete...
Utz will commence a tender offer to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Inventure’s common stock at a price of $4 per share in cash, for a total purchase price of approximately $165 million.Salty snack maker Utz Quality Foods, L.L.C. has reached an agreement to acquire Phoenix-based Inventure...
The projects are worth millions and are in line with FAO’s pledge to end hunger, eradicate malnutrition and reduce rural poverty.The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has signed an agreement with Malawi’s Ministry of Agriculture for two five-year projects aimed at addressing food secur...
Scientists have used low-cost ultrasonic transducers to form a standing wave of ultrasound. Scientists at the University of Sussex, in collaboration with the University of Bristol, have created the contactless food-delivery system termed as "TastyFloats". Heston Blumenthal has pioneered scientific&n...
The research is able to explain the correlation between the strength of the Warburg effect and tumor aggressiveness.Researchers found yeast with high levels of the sugar known as glucose overstimulated the same proteins often found mutated inside human tumors, making cells grow faster. The finding, ...
Nestle would explore strategic options, including a possible sale, for its U.S. chocolate and candy business.The chocolate major Hershey will be submitting an initial bid for Nestle’s US confectionery business. Ferrara Candy is also expected to put forward an introductory offer.
Both will face co...
