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Byline: Dean Best Ferrero makes branded ice-cream push In February, Italy-based confectioner and sweet-snacks giant Ferrero announced it was taking on another part of the food industry. US baby-food firm [...]

Byline: Simon Harvey Amara Organic Foods has sold a majority stake in the US plant-based baby-food business to the Eat Well Investment Group in Canada. Eat Well in Vancouver said [...]

Byline: Dean Best Kraft Heinz today (27 October) upped its estimate for a core profit metric on the back of 'better-than-expected' sales growth. The ketchup, baked beans and baby-food maker [...]

Byline: Andy Coyne US baby food firm Beech-Nut Nutrition Corp. has been sued by the Washington DC attorney general over allegations that its products contain toxic metals. Karl Racine's lawsuit, [...]

Byline: Andy Coyne Italian investment group DeA Capital Alternative Funds has bought a 60% stake in Spain-based baby food and plant-based dairy specialist Alimentación y Nutrición Familiar. It has acquired [...]

Byline: Simon Harvey Hochdorf said its Bimbosan infant-formula business will take over a plant formerly producing wheat germ for the Swiss baby-food products firm from the end of January. The [...]

Byline: Andy Coyne Babease, the UK organic baby-food firm, and Brecon Foods, which manufactures its products, have been bought out of administration by entities controlled by local investment firm Amitis [...]

Byline: Andy Coyne New Zealand infant formula manufacturer Synlait Milk has extended its supply deal with local peer A2 Milk Co. In an announcement this morning, Synlait said it had [...]

Byline: Andy Coyne Pipin Pear, the Ireland-based chilled baby-food firm, is to sell a range of organic products in Belgium and Germany. The Co. Waterford-based company, known until a recent [...]

Byline: Simon Harvey Hochdorf said it plans to focus its operations on the baby food market after the Swiss infant formula and dairy producer launched a business review in May. [...]

Byline: Andy Coyne Andy Coyne speaks to the founders of London-based organic baby food start-up Mia & Ben, which is using nascent heating technology in an attempt to 'revolutionise the [...]

Byline: Simon Harvey Bubs Australia has reached an agreement to offload 'certain assets' acquired when the infant-formula and baby-food maker snapped up the local dairy group NuLac Foods. In 2017, [...]

Byline: Dean Best Infant formula and baby food maker Bubs Australia looks set to announce M&A news, according to a stock-exchange filing from the company. This article was originally published [...]

Byline: Dean Best Danone has said its in-house investment division is looking at backing businesses located outside North America and Europe for the first time. The French food giant set [...]

Byline: Andy Coyne New Zealand infant formula manufacturer Synlait Milk has announced a 'significant expansion' to its supply agreement with Australia's A2 Milk Company. The companies signed a supply deal [...]

Byline: Dean Best Danone expects to have invested in up to 25 start-ups through its venture-capital arm by 2020. Like a number of its peers, Danone has an in-house investment [...]

Byline: Andy Coyne Mead Johnson, the US infant nutrition company owned by consumer goods giant Reckitt Benckiser, has linked up with Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com. The Chinese company said the [...]

Byline: Dean Best Bubs Australia, the infant formula and baby-food business, has secured a deal to sell its range of products through Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com. The company said products [...]

Byline: Andy Coyne Synlait Milk, the New Zealand business best known for co-packing infant formula, has renewed a supply arrangement with its largest shareholder, China's Bright Dairy. The firms have [...]

Byline: Dean Best Bubs Australia, the infant formula and baby-food business, has struck a deal to buy local dairy group NuLac Foods. The cash-and-shares transaction - which Bubs Australia chief [...]

Byline: Andy Coyne New Zealand infant formula business Synlait Milk is to set up a research and development centre in the country. The site at Palmerston North, in New Zealand's [...]

Byline: Simon Harvey US baby meal delivery startup Raised Real has received a US$5m cash injection from Schwan's Company and will use the funds to boost growth and expand national [...]

Byline: Dean Best John Foraker, the former CEO of US food group Annie's, has joined fledgling local baby food business Once Upon a Farm as its chief executive. Foraker, who [...]

Byline: Andy Coyne Chinese companies Inner Mongolia Fuyang Farming and China Resources have been linked with making bids for Australian dairy co-operative Murray Goulburn. Bids are due in by 15 [...]

Byline: Dean Best Nestle has claimed it has developed the first infant formula to contain two oligosachardies contained in human breast milk, (HMOs), which are said to be associated with [...]

Byline: Dean Best US activist investor Engaged Capital has bought just short of 10% of Hain Celestial and has lined up seven candidates for nomination to the US food group's [...]

Byline: Helen Arnold Piccolo, which claims to be the UK's fastest growing baby brand, has made Ireland its first overseas market. The company, launched in April 2016, has secured listings [...]

Byline: John Shepherd Australia's Nature One Dairy has signed a partnership agreement to manufacture infant formula for export to the China National Pharmaceutical Group Corporation - Sinopharm. Under the terms [...]

Byline: Dean Best The final regulatory approval needed for Reckitt Benckiser's takeover of US infant formula maker Mead Johnson has been received, with the US$17.9bn deal set to be completed [...]

Byline: Dean Best US pharma group Abbott Laboratories today (19 April) reported a fall in first-quarter sales from its paediatric nutrition business, hit by 'challenging' conditions in China's infant formula [...]

Byline: Katy Askew Dairy cooperative Arla is investing EUR12m (US$12.7m) to establish infant formula production capabilities at its Akafa plant in Jutland. The site, which currently produces powdered milk and [...]

Byline: Dean Best Hero, the Switzerland-based baby food-to-snacks maker, saw its earnings rise in 2016, helped by higher profits in Europe, despite muted growth in sales. The company behind Organix [...]

Byline: Dean Best UK organic baby food firm Piccolo is launching what it says are the country's first pouched baby food products using Fairtrade ingredients. Two of the company's Piccolo [...]

Byline: Katy Askew Infant formula maker Beingmate Baby & Child Food reported a loss of CNY798m (US$116.19m) for 2016, a year that saw the company's profit hit by a counterfeiting [...]

Byline: Dean Best The stand-out story this week centred on Mead Johnson, with the US infant formula maker in talks to sell the business to UK FMCG group Reckitt Benckiser. [...]

Byline: Dean Best US pharma group Abbott Laboratories saw sales from its nutrition business - which includes infant formula - fall in 2016, with the decline accelerating in the fourth [...]

Byline: Dean Best Beingmate Baby & Child Food, the China-based infant formula business, has reportedly said it expects to post a net loss of CNY750-800m (US$109.4-116.6m) for 2016. The result [...]

Byline: John Shepherd Infant formula producers in New Zealand and Australia, A2 Milk Co., and Bega Cheese, have moved to downplay market concerns after infant formula peer Bellamy's Australia requested [...]

Byline: Dean Best Biostime International Holdings, the Hong Kong-listed infant formula maker, has reported higher nine-month revenue, as sales from vitamins arm Swisse offset pressure on its formula business. The [...]

Byline: John Shepherd Alete, the private-equity backed, German baby food business, has confirmed that Peter Hüttmann will become its new MD next year. Hüttmann will succeed Horst Jostock on 1 [...]

Byline: Dean Best Shares in Hain Celestial nose-dived yesterday (16 August) as Wall Street responded to a surprise announcement on Monday late afternoon US time from the Earth's Best baby [...]

Byline: Dean Best Synutra International, the Chinese infant formula producer, has forecast a rise in annual profits in its new financial year after seeing earnings slide in the year to [...]

Byline: Dean Best Mead Johnson, the US infant formula producer, today (28 April) claimed to be seeing progress in its performance despite reporting lower first-quarter sales and earnings. CEO Kasper [...]

Byline: Katy Askew Shanghai food safety authorities confirmed that six arrests have been made over the alleged production and sale of 'fake' milk powder under the Abbott brand name in [...]

Byline: Hannah Abdulla US infant formula firm Mead Johnson has announced the launch of 'premium-priced' brand Enfinitas in China. A line of products is expected to hit the market over [...]

Byline: Hannah Abdulla Murray Goulburn, the Australia-based dairy co-operative, has struck a deal to supply US infant formula manufacturer Mead Johnson with nutritional powders. The company announced a 'framework agreement' [...]

Byline: Hannah Abdulla This week, just-food spoke to Arla Foods CFO Natalie Knight in the wake of its full year results to find out how the dairy giant navigated a [...]

Byline: Hannah Abdulla Campbell Soup Co., owned baby food business Plum Organics has waded into the early feeding space with the launch of an organic infant formula. Grow Well Organic [...]

Byline: Dean Best Irwin Simon, the founder, president and CEO of Hain Celestial, often comes across as one of the more forthright chief executives in the US food industry, with [...]

Byline: Katy Askew The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has called for the country's voluntary infant formula marketing code to be re-authorised in a move that has drawn criticism from [...]