Consumers may consider organic cookies, yogurt and potato chips to be tastier, healthier and lower in calories because they carry an organic label, according to FoodNavigator-USA.com.
While a search of Mintel’s Global New Products Database (GNPD) could only identify five US products featuring the fruit concentrate, several of the nation’s biggest food manufacturers have requested samples, with many looking to combine it with stevia in a bid to capitalise on its all natural...
Auckland-based Living Cell Technologies Limited, a company developing cell implant therapy to treat diabetes, says it has entered into an agreement to raise A$3 million through a placement of shares to Otsuka Pharmaceutical Factory, Inc from Japan.
Fonterra is about to start offering industrial cheddar cheese at its electronic auctions from July 19, according to an NZPA story carried in the NZ Herald.
US exports to China has reached a new record-high of US$91.9 billion last year even as the trade deficit between the two countries widened, according to EmpoweredNews.net.
Rising fuel prices, tumbling freight rates, piracy and now radiation fears will make this year one of the most difficult in decades for the maritime industry, forcing some shipping companies out of business, according to a Reuters report carried by mb.com.ph.
NZ carpet-maker Cavalier Bremworth's export business has grown by 75% in the past year to offset a flat domestic market, according to BusinessDay.co.nz.
Global container volume saw a strong rebound in 2010, marking an estimated 560 million TEU, up an all-time high of 14.5% year on year after experiencing an 8.9% decline in 2009, the first ever drop, according to the Shipping Gazette.
A senior Chinese civil aviation official said on Thursday that China, the world's most populous nation, would build 56 more airports during the next five years to expand transport capacity, according to ChinaDaily.
