Category: Markets
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Bakeit Food has opened a £3m granola plant in Winchester. The 12,500 sq ft site is producing up to 220 tonnes per month, combining baking, packing, and warehousing for contract manufacture across granola, cereals, and related snacks.
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UK food plants are scaling packing lines with robotics fast. Gü Indulgent Foods and Dale Farm Foods have deployed FANUC-based cells to increase throughput, improve flexibility, and reduce manual handling.
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Heineken plans global job cuts as beer volumes slip again. The brewer is targeting €400m – €500m in annual gross savings through an operating model overhaul, supply-network changes, and expanded shared services.
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UK judges have restricted Oatly’s ‘Post Milk Generation’ mark today. The Supreme Court found the wording breaches retained rules reserving dairy designations for animal-derived products, forcing plant-based brands to rethink UK packaging and merchandising.
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Lotte Wellfood has upgraded Yangsan to boost cacao throughput significantly. A new bean-to-bar line lifts capacity to 2.5 tonnes per hour and increases in-house liquefied cacao mass production from Ghanaian beans.
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ETi Gıda has agreed to buy nutrition bar brand Trubar. The $173m cash transaction gives the Turkish snacks group a US platform and adds a fast-growing clean-label range as functional confectionery and protein snacking keep expanding.
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DalterFood has opened a new Parma plant for hard cheeses. The Via Emilio Lepido site adds capacity for cutting and packaging, with more lines due to start in coming months.
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ofi launched three single origin cocoa liquors under deZaan. Unveiled for ISM 2026, the range targets repeatable fine-flavour profiles at industrial scale.
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Barry Callebaut will invest €250m to upgrade Wieze facility operations. The programme targets infrastructure, safety, and production-line modernisation at the company’s largest chocolate site.
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The US expanded tariff-free Argentine lean beef imports for 2026. The move adds 80,000 metric tons of lean trimmings, aimed at easing tight ground beef supply and record retail prices.