Category Archives: Food & Beverage

Food & Beverage Press Releases & News distributed via EuropaWire

Barry Callebaut and Petra Foods settled their Cocoa Ingredients Division dispute

Barry Callebaut and Petra Foods settled their dispute regarding the purchase price for the Cocoa Ingredients Division, which Barry Callebaut acquired from Petra Foods in 2013. The settlement consists of a one-time lump sum payment of Petra Foods to Barry … Read the full press release

Freme Project For Multilingual And Semantic Content Enrichment

Turin, Italy, 24-8-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Many industries are coping with new challenges and finding opportunities in the growing amount of digital content across languages, sectors and domains. Functionality like machine translation, entity recognition, or multilingual linked data sets – based … Read the full press release

Heineken to sponsor the internationally renowned Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam for 3 years

Amsterdam, 19-8-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Heineken N.V. (‘HEINEKEN’) today announced a three year commitment to sponsor the internationally renowned Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. The commitment will go beyond a mere donation, and will also see the company use its flagship … Read the full press release

Free public workshop on making healthy meals more appetising to young tastes at the University of Bristol’s Elizabeth Blackwell Institute

The factors that drive children’s choices of food and the most effective ways of making healthy meals more appetising to young tastes, will be the focus of a free public workshop hosted by the University of Bristol’s Elizabeth Blackwell Institute. … Read the full press release

Orkla ASA to initiate a share buyback program for up to 2 million shares

OSLO, 12-8-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Orkla ASA (”Orkla”) has decided to initiate a share buyback program for up to 2 million shares in the market. The buyback program will be conducted in accordance with the authorization provided by the annual general … Read the full press release

SABMiller names Johann Nel as Group Human Resources Director with effect from 14 September 2015

LONDON, 7-8-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — SABMiller has appointed Johann Nel as Group Human Resources Director with effect from 14 September 2015, in succession to Tony van Kralingen, whose intended retirement was announced in April 2015. Johann is currently running his … Read the full press release

UCL researchers developed novel artificial intelligence to predict price fluctuation of fine wines

LONDON, 5-8-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — The price fluctuation of fine wines can now be predicted more accurately using a novel artificial intelligence approach developed by researchers at UCL. The method could be used to help fine wine investors make more … Read the full press release

tastecard and the Gourmet Society acquired by Bridgepoint Development Capital from DIDIX

LONODN, 4-8-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — tastecard and the Gourmet Society, the UK’s number 1 and number 2 restaurant discount card clubs, have been acquired by Bridgepoint Development Capital (‘BDC’) with management for an undisclosed sum from DIDIX, a Dutch gift … Read the full press release

DEG – Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH invests in rice production in Cambodia

USD 15 million for a local rice producer Safeguarding income for small-scale farmers Rice husks for producing renewable energy COLOGNE, 30-6-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — DEG – Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH is investing in rice production in the future market … Read the full press release

Forum for the Future and FrieslandCampina release report on addressing food and nutrition security in Southeast Asia

Businesses, governments and civil society need to forge trust, find alignment and foster collaboration and coordination to secure the future of food and nutrition, as food systems in Southeast Asia and the world hang in delicate balance. Amersfoort, Netherlands, 29-6-2015 … Read the full press release

Orkla Foods to acquire 100% of the shares in the Austrian company Bioquelle GmbH

OSLO, 25-6-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Orkla Foods, through its wholly-owned subsidiary FELIX Austria GmbH, has entered into an agreement to acquire 100 % of the shares in the Austrian company Bioquelle GmbH. Bioquelle holds strong positions in Austria in categories … Read the full press release

AVEBE launches ELIANE™ GEL 100 potato starch for creamy fat reduced soups, dressings and sauces

50% fat reduction without compromising on creaminess Veendam, Netherlands, 25-6-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — ELIANE™ GEL 100 is a potato starch with unique properties that allow food manufacturers to create high quality, creamy and indulgent fat reduced soups, dressings and sauces. … Read the full press release

Autogrill to operate 8 points of sale at Antalya Airport in Turkey through an agreement with ICTur

The number of points of sale operated by the Group in the country increased to 24 Under an agreement with ICTur, the Company expects to generate total revenues of around 110 million Euros over the 10-year contract MILAN, 9-6-2015 — … Read the full press release

Carlsberg: Jacobsen Craft Brewery turns 10

Ceremonial barrel to be opened at Copenhagen Beer Festival  COPENHAGEN, 4-6-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — At exactly 20:05 Copenhagen time today (5/28/2015), Morten Ibsen, Jacobsen Brewmaster, will uncork a 100-litre wooden barrel of Jacobsen Original Dark Lager. The time (20:05) is … Read the full press release

Tetra Pak released new edition of its industry reference book providing guidance on the key operational steps of dairy processing

With expanded chapters on milk and whey powder, whey processing, concentrated yoghurt and updates on commercial sterility regulations.​ Lausanne, 2-6-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Tetra Pak has released a new edition of its ‘Dairy Processing Handbook’, an industry reference book providing guidance … Read the full press release

Peak of FrieslandCampina Wamco celebrates 60 years of nourishing Nigeria with quality dairy nutrition

Amersfoort, the Netherlands, 29-5-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — The colourful milestone ceremony to celebrate 60 years of nourishing goodness was held on Saturday, 23rd of May 2015. Rahul Colaco, Managing Director of FrieslandCampina Wamco in Nigeria, expressed happiness and appreciation of Nigerian’s … Read the full press release

Barry Callebaut Group opens its first Cocoa Application Center in Asia Pacific

ZURICH, 28-5-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Barry Callebaut opens first Cocoa Application Center in Asia Pacific to drive future growth of its customers New state-of-the-art facility for developing individual product solutions and innovations together with customers in response to changing consumer … Read the full press release

Capgemini to implement range of cloud-based financial point solutions and cloud ERP suite from NetSuite configured to deliver BPO services across TGI Fridays restaurants

Cloud-based ERP and Services to Help Drive Company’s Growth Initiatives New York, N.Y., 11-5-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Capgemini, one of the world’s foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, today announced that it has been selected by TGI FridaysTM … Read the full press release

Anheuser-Busch InBev’s General Shareholders Meeting approves EUR 3.00 dividend payment for 2014

The enclosed information constitutes regulated information as defined in the Belgian Royal Decree of 14 November 2007 regarding the duties of issuers of financial instruments which have been admitted for trading on a regulated market. BRUSSELS, 1-5-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — … Read the full press release

Heineken N.V. acquires 51.11 percent in leading Slovenian brewer Pivovarna Laško d.d. for EUR114.3m

Amsterdam, 15-4-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Heineken N.V. (“HEINEKEN”) today announces that it has signed a binding agreement with a consortium of shareholders to acquire 4,471,054 shares in Pivovarna Laško d.d. (“Pivovarna Laško”), representing 51.11 percent of the issued share capital, … Read the full press release