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Back-again Danone prepares for China dairy threesome
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Danone has agreed a series of deals with Cofco, China’s largest food company, and Hong Kong-listed China Mengniu as a means to break back into a market it has traditionally struggled to enter. Related news |
News in brief
Mondelez upsizes Cadbury Dairy Milk blocks in New Zealand
Mondelez International will introduce larger rounder pieces for Cadbury Dairy Milk in New Zealand for the same price point.
Inspiration for innovation: Connecting senior execs with best-in-class innovators creates ‘excellent breeding ground for innovative idea generation’
From Nike’s Bill Bowerman being inspired by a waffle iron, to studying the behavior of herding cows for the redevelopment of Times Square, cross-pollination of ideas from different fields can generate big rewards.
INDUSTRY VOICES: GUEST ARTICLE, HEAD OF AKTIEFOKUS CHINA, JACOB DE LICHTENBERG
Carlsberg faces Chinese challenge in booming Yunnan beer market
Danish multinational brewer Carlsberg, which once held a solid market share in the Southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan, is facing tough competition from new entrants and existing competitors desiring a share of the region's booming beer market.
Asian tastes
UN endorses Australian's call for the world to eat more insects
A book released by the FAO attempts to persuade Westerners that insects are a potential key food source for the future. This will no doubt please Australian “science communicator” Julian Cribb, author of The Coming Famine and insect nutrition evangelist.
Food safety
Chinese premier tells agencies to get tougher on food crime
China’s authorities need use all their resources to monitor the food market more closely and impose harsher penalties if the country is to bounce back from a spate of food crises, according to its premier, Li Keqiang, earlier this week.
Australian Budget 2013
Budget blues for industry in the face of a strong Aussie dollar
The food industry claimed little to cheer after this week’s Federal Budget. Despite the government’s statement coinciding with the first time the Aussie dollar has dropped below parity with the Greenback for a month shy of a year, and indications that a forecast trade deficit over the next two years...
BUT BIG BRANDS HENNESSEY, JOHNNIE WALKER STRONG IN KEY MARKETS
Spirits brands miss digital marketing opps in new Asian sales 'epicenter'?
Despite runaway spirits growth in Asia, 20% of global brands do not have a Chinese website, and mobile sites tend to lack investment, but Hennessey and Johnnie Walker are strong in key markets.
Global Industry News
Omega-3 may minimise damaging effects of junk food on brain: Research review from NutraIngredients.com
Consumption of omega-3 fatty acids could help to minimise the debilitating effects that high junk food consumption has on the brain, according to a new review of more than 180 research papers.
Dispatches from Vitafoods Europe 2013
Confectionery ‘a new way to control weight’ claims Carmit Candy from ConfectioneryNews.com
Confectionery is a novel way to control your weight, according to private label firm Carmit Candy which has just launched a weight management chocolate wafer bar.
Women bigger snackers than men, finds NPD Group from BakeryAndSnacks.com
American Women are 15% more likely to snack than their male counterparts, according to research from The NPD Group’s SnackTrack.
Horsemeat webinar
Four ways horsemeat crisis will benefit UK food industry from FoodManufacture.co.uk
The horsemeat crisis is bringing four benefits to the UK food industry, despite all the adverse publicity that followed in its wake, said speakers at Food Manufacture’s webinar – Horsemeat, learning the lessons of an avoidable crisis – held yesterday (May 16).
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