Despite global business challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, results of an exclusive new study reveal that food and beverage companies and influencers continue to invest in digital technologies that advance productivity, efficiency, sustainability and food safety.
On the heels of Beverage USA Holdings Inc.s acquisition of NERD a leading focus beverage company, the mental acuity drink announces its rebrand with a new logo that aligns with the product disruption to the beverage industry and resonates with consumers looking to enhance focus, concentration, memory and energy.
New Leaf Ventures Inc. , a management and investment organization dedicated to evaluating and accelerating advanced stage operations in the North American Cannabis sector is pleased to announce an agreement whereby its New Leaf USA venture operations with brand license operator New Leaf Enterprises has concluded an agreement with Washington state-based Schilling Hard Cider for the creation of p...
U.S. pork exports to China have skyrocketed this year as African Swine Fever eroded two-thirds of Chinas hog herd and drove its hog prices to record highs. However, according to a new report from CoBanks Knowledge Exchange, China is making progress rebuilding its hog herd, jeopardizing the U.S. export picture over the next 3 to 5 years.
Rising agricultural exports to China are helping revive the fortunes of some agribusiness companies and farmers, after the coronavirus pandemic upended the U.S. farm sector. China's effort to boost pork production, and buy more U.S. grain and meat following this year's U.S.-China trade agreement, are driving a surge of U.S. farm goods across the Pacific in recent months, according to government estimates. Growing demand around the world for food staples like vegetable oil and...
The European Parliament has voted against a measure that proposed a ban on referring to vegetable-based products with meat-related terms such as' veggie burgers', in a blow to the hopes of the continent's livestock sector. Lawmakers rejected all proposals to reserve meat-related names to products containing meat, the European Parliament's Committee on Agricultural and Rural Development said Friday. The vote was 379 against and 284 votes in favor.
Company to Heavily Market Key Food Service Accounts for Plant Based Meatballs and Pasta Bowl Products MamaMancini's Holdings, Inc. (MMMB), a marketer of specialty pre-prepared, frozen and refrigerated food products, today announced that it has engaged B&A Food Brokers, one of the largest independent food brokers, for food service sales solicitation in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, as ...
* October manufacturers' sentiment index -26 vs September -29. * Service-sector index -16 in October vs September -18. * Factory-, service-sector gloom seen stabilising. By Daniel Leussink. The pessimism hanging over Japan's manufacturers lifted slightly in October, suggesting businesses were emerging from the coronavirus pandemic's heavy blow to activity and earnings but at a glacial pace.
Six current and former chicken-industry executives were indicted on price-fixing charges, expanding the U.S. government's antitrust prosecutions in the $65 billion poultry industry. The charges, announced Wednesday, target executives from several different chicken companies, including Pilgrim's
Pride Corp. (PPC), and provide new details about the alleged conspiracy. Prosecutors said the price-fixing took place from 2012 into early 2019, a longer period than the Justice...
The U.S. government has indicted six more chicken-industry executives over alleged price-fixing, broadening antitrust prosecutions in its probe of the $65 billion poultry sector. In June, the Justice Department indicted Pilgrim's Pride Chief Executive Jayson Penn and three others in its first charges in the criminal probe involving broiler birds, which account for most U.S. chicken.
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