Dutch brewing company Heineken has purchased a 50 percent stake in the California-based Lagunitas Brewing Company to capitalize on the growing American craft beer movement.
In an effort to meet consumers’ changing expectations and preferences, McDonald’s said Wednesday it will fully transition to using only cage-free eggs at all of its nearly 16,000 restaurants in the US and Canada over the next decade.
Shelf-stable drinking yogurt has exploded in China since its debut in 2010, growing at a rate that has it accounting for 13 percent of the country’s total yogurt category in 2014.
Staying ahead of the holiday season, McCormick & Company, Inc. is introducing a new non-GMO labeled Vanilla Extract and says it plans to have all products be 80 percent organic and free of genetically modified organisms by 2016.
A California produce company has issued a recall for its cucumbers after CDC linked its products to a multistate outbreak of Salmonella Poona infections.
KitKat, a brand of Swiss food and beverage giant Nestlé, will be manufactured using only sustainable sourced cocoa beginning in the first quarter of 2016, the brand announced this week.
The Kraft Heinz Company has expanded its recall of Kraft Singles individually-wrapped cheese slices saying a default in the product’s packaging film affects ten times as many cases as originally thought.
JBT Corporation, an American food processing machinery company, has signed an agreement to purchase A&B Process Systems (A&B), a leading provider of processing systems for the beverage and food industries, for $102 million.
General Mills, Inc. announced Thursday it will sell its Green Giant and Le Sueur vegetable businesses to B&G Foods, Inc., for approximately $765 million.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has awarded $10.5 million in one-year federal safety and health training grants to 80 nonprofit organizations across the nation for education and training programs that help high-risk workers and their employers recognize serious workplace hazards, implement injury prevention measures and understand their rights and responsibilities.