Category: Markets
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Meat processors face pressure to automate portioning, packing, and labelling. JBT Marel’s expanded line offer links crust freezing, cutting, weighing, tray packing, sealing, price labelling, and case packing into a single configured production flow.
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Fresh produce packing needs speed without product damage. ULMA Packaging UK will showcase VFFS technology with Venturi air-assisted handling for leafy salad and delicate produce applications.
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Valio has appointed Matti Lehmus as CEO from January 2027, with Annikka Hurme retiring after more than a decade leading the Finnish dairy company.
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Garden Biopharmaceutical has appointed Denkavit Ingredients as exclusive distributor for feed additive vitamins across Europe, strengthening routes to market for animal nutrition products used in livestock production.
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Authorities in Attica seized more than 5.3 tonnes of unsuitable animal-origin products after tracing a suspected foodborne illness case to a meat processing and trading facility.
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VIV Europe 2026 closed its 25th edition in Utrecht with nearly 15,000 professional visitors, 461 exhibitors, and a new biannual cycle for the feed-to-food sector.
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Newcastle disease outbreaks across continental Europe are renewing biosecurity pressure on poultry producers and processors, with disease risk adding complexity to protein supply planning.
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Ferrero is investing €60m across French Nutella production, professional packaging, and cookie manufacturing as the group expands its European industrial footprint.
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Marks & Spencer has reshaped its food leadership structure, appointing John Farrell as commercial director for ambient and promoting Jeni Blackett as commercial director for fish.
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Peak Rock Capital has acquired Dalziel Ingredients, backing a UK manufacturer and distributor of savoury flavours, seasonings, meat solutions, casings, packaging, and related food industry products.