popchips sells its European brand and operations to Intersnack
Earlier this month, KP Snacks, part of the Intersnack Group, announced it had reached an agreement to acquire Popchips Ltd, which owns and operates the Popchips brand for Europe.
July 10, 2018
Nomad has completed the acquisition of Aunt Bessie's
Earlier this month Nomad Foods Limited announced that it had completed its previously announced acquisition of Aunt Bessie’s Limited from William Jackson & Son Limited for a purchase price of approximately €240 million.
July 02, 2018
Bosch is looking for a new owner for its packaging business
Bosch has decided to sell it packaging business. Although Bosch Packaging Technology is among the largest manufacturers of packaging equipment world-wide, the company does not consider it its core business.
June 06, 2018
Bayer plans closing of Monsanto Acquisition on June 7
Bayer plans to complete the acquisition of Monsanto on June, 7, following the receipt of all required approvals from regulatory authorities.
June 05, 2018
The Intersnack Group is to acquire Tyrrells' snack brands from Hershey
Last month the Intersnack Group announced that it had reached agreement for its KP Snacks business to acquire Tyrrells, Inc. and its global portfolio of better-for-you, premium snack brands from The Hershey Company.
May 31, 2018
KWS renews offer for Bayer AG vegetable seed business
KWS has offered to buy Bayer’s Dutch vegetable seed company Nunhems.
April 28, 2018
Merger talks between UK supermarket chains Sainsbury's and ASDA (Walmart)
Merger talks between British supermarket chains Sainsbury's and Asda are at an "advanced" stage, Sainsbury's has confirmed.
February 26, 2018
TOMRA Sorting Food continues expansion with acquisition of BBC Technologies
Food Sorting Specialist TOMRA today signed an agreement to acquire 100 percent of the shares in BBC Technologies - including BBC Technologies USA.
January 26, 2018
UK Potato Chips acquisition: 'Fairfields Farm Crisps is now a whole Ten Acre larger'
Fairfields Farm Crisps has agreed to acquire Ten Acre Crisps, in an ongoing concentration of smaller premium brands focused on high quality and free-from attributes in the UK snack market
January 13, 2018
Acquisition of Pavan offers GEA a range of snack processing capabilities
With the concluded acquisition of the Italian Pavan Group end of November 2017 the Düsseldorf engineering group GEA purchased a leading supplier of extrusion and milling technology for processing all kinds of fresh and dried pasta, pelleted snack products and breakfast cereals.
January 13, 2018
Burts Chips acquires popcorn manufacturer Savoury and Sweet Ltd
Burt’s Potato Chips have announced the purchase of Leicester’s Savoury & Sweet popcorn manufacturer for an undisclosed sum.
November 14, 2017
Dewulf partners with Mahindra to bring the latest potato planting technology to Indian Farmers
Dewulf, supplier of a full line of potato and root crop machinery, announced a licencing agreement with Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd (M&M Ltd), part of the USD 19 billion Mahindra Group, headquartered in Mumbai (India) for the manufacturing and marketing of potato planting equipment in India.
Francia: Florimond Desprez se afianza en el sector de papa de siembra con la compra de SPB
El pasado 23 de octubre de 2017, la compañía francesa firmó la adquisición del 100% de la Sociedad de Productores Bretones (SPB) y de sus filiales: Gopex Distribution y Bret Seeds.
August 08, 2017
Potato Starch Company Lyckeby announce Strategic Alliance with Ingredion
Lyckeby, the Swedish manufacturer of potato-based starch and fibre products has yesterday formed a new strategic alliance with Ingredion.
July 11, 2017
TOMRA subsidiary Compac partners with UK packaging specialist Xact
Earlier today, TOMRA Subsidiary Compac announced a new partnership with Xact, one of the United Kingdom’s leading integrated solution providers and a specialist in packaging and marking equipment.
Lamb Weston / Meijer, the European joint venture of Lamb Weston Holdings, Inc., announced June 15th that it has completed its acquisition of the potato division of Oerlemans Foods.
Lamb Weston / Meijer has reached the completion phase of the acquisition of the potato division of Oerlemans Foods, including a take-over of the plant in Broekhuizenvorst.
April 17, 2017
Pom’Alliance and Pomuni join forces
Pom'Alliance and Pomuni are joining forces in the fresh potato sector. Both companies signed mutual cooperation agreements on March 30, 2017.