1. Food and drink manufacturers are increasingly exploiting premiumisation by focusing on niche products in a bid to insulate their businesses from the low prices arising from the supermarket price war, reveals a new report.
2. Israeli insect start-up, Steak TzarTzar, aims to target the western sports nutrition market with its grasshopper protein powder - competitively priced thanks to grasshopper sales in Africa.
3. 38 ‘developed’ nations delivered 54% of functional food and supplement and other health & wellness product sales in 2014, but these same nations will account for only 14% of growth between now and 2019.
4. A European push toward segregated certified sustainable palm oil may inadvertently exclude smaller producers from the supply chain.
5. The number of hungry people in the world has fallen again this year to 795 million – 10m fewer than last year and 216m fewer than in 1990-92 – according to FAO figures.
6. Absolutdata, whose clients include SABMiller and Perfetti, Italian confectionery and gum manufacturer, has launched a NAVIK line of automated marketing analytics tools for business managers at major global brands in CPG.
7. Greater use of food irradiation across the EU would help to prevent many avoidable cases of food poisoning from bacteria such as salmonella, campylobacter and E.coli, a leading food safety consultant has argued.
8. The UK's National Health Service (NHS) CEO says failing to reformulate products to reduce added sugars would be like slow food poisoning of the nation.
9. Crowdfunding bosses have slammed criticism that this growing source of finance is backing food and drink products that are potentially harmful to consumers, resulting in food safety concerns.
10. Bread is one of the biggest casualties of the supermarket price war, as retailers keep dropping its price to rock bottom levels in a bid to entice shoppers.
11. Malaysian halal firms opening up new markets in China; Vietnam should be wary about new raft of FTAs; Food poisoning on the up in Vietnam.
2. Israeli insect start-up, Steak TzarTzar, aims to target the western sports nutrition market with its grasshopper protein powder - competitively priced thanks to grasshopper sales in Africa.
3. 38 ‘developed’ nations delivered 54% of functional food and supplement and other health & wellness product sales in 2014, but these same nations will account for only 14% of growth between now and 2019.
4. A European push toward segregated certified sustainable palm oil may inadvertently exclude smaller producers from the supply chain.
5. The number of hungry people in the world has fallen again this year to 795 million – 10m fewer than last year and 216m fewer than in 1990-92 – according to FAO figures.
6. Absolutdata, whose clients include SABMiller and Perfetti, Italian confectionery and gum manufacturer, has launched a NAVIK line of automated marketing analytics tools for business managers at major global brands in CPG.
7. Greater use of food irradiation across the EU would help to prevent many avoidable cases of food poisoning from bacteria such as salmonella, campylobacter and E.coli, a leading food safety consultant has argued.
8. The UK's National Health Service (NHS) CEO says failing to reformulate products to reduce added sugars would be like slow food poisoning of the nation.
9. Crowdfunding bosses have slammed criticism that this growing source of finance is backing food and drink products that are potentially harmful to consumers, resulting in food safety concerns.
10. Bread is one of the biggest casualties of the supermarket price war, as retailers keep dropping its price to rock bottom levels in a bid to entice shoppers.
11. Malaysian halal firms opening up new markets in China; Vietnam should be wary about new raft of FTAs; Food poisoning on the up in Vietnam.
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