July 2020

Food IngredientsFIrst

Synergy Flavours’ Thai division has completed the expansion of a new high-care blending facility, which has been added to its existing production site in Samut Prakarn, Thailand. The new high-care blending facility of Synergy Flavours UK’s wholly owned subsidiary adds 2,500 m² (26,909 ft²) of additional space to the Thailand plant.

New Food Magazine

Following a rising demand for meat alternatives driven by health concerned consumers, Senior Research Fellow from the University of Reading, Simona Grasso, outlines the potential of the hybrid meat market.

Food IngredientsFIrst

This year marks a decade since European farmer-owned dairy cooperative Arla Foods and Starbucks partnered up to combine chilled coffee and milk for the ready to drink (RTD) market. The partnership makes note of “continuous growth in a high pace global market, in which unit production has increased by no less than 1,700 percent.” In an update, the companies peg the global RTD coffee market as one of the fastest growing in the RTD category, with last year’s sales up by 17 percent.

Food IngredientsFIrst

Agri-food heavyweight Cargill is partnering with a local manufacturer in western India to launch its first chocolate manufacturing operation in the country as it makes its foray into the chocolate business in India. Cargill plans to scale up operational capabilities quickly in the fast-growing chocolate category. The facility is expected to begin operating mid-2021 and will initially produce 10,000 metric tons (MT) of chocolate compounds.

 FoodNavigator-Asia

The Philippines’ controversial new tax reform bill aims to help smaller local food and beverage pay lower taxes and stop larger firms from exploring existing system loopholes in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak’but experts are warning implementation could be a minefield.

FoodNavigator-Asia

Asian countries that have implemented food export restrictions to protect local supplies amid the COVID-19 pandemic will harm their commodity prices and damage their trade reputations, according to an expert from the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations (FAO).