The latest mergers and acquisitions (M&A) report covering the UK food and beverage (F&B) sector shows a 29% drop in deal volume from May to August when compared with the same months in the prior year.
Print Library, a food packaging producer in Northern Ireland, has invested in machinery that will help it produce anti-viral coatings for its products.
A team of scientists in Singapore say they have created a magnet-centred method to produce meat that is “greener, cleaner, safer and more cost-effective” than other methods.
A new coalition formed from S2G Ventures, Food Systems for the Future and other partners has launched, with a call to action to raise $2.5 billion (€2.61bn) in private investment over the next three years to end food insecurity and improve hunger and health outcomes through food.
A court ruling has rejected the US Department of Justice’s attempt to prevent US Sugar from acquiring Imperial Sugar, allowing the farming and food production to move forward “as quickly as possible” to conclude the transaction to buy one of the oldest processors and marketers of refined sugar in the United States from commodities trader Louis Dreyfus Company.
