January 28/San Francisco/The San Francisco Chronicle -- The Hershey Co. plans to close Scharffen Berger's West Berkeley manufacturing plant as well as the San Francisco factory that makes Joseph Schmidt
January 30/Lab Business Week -- Drinks Americas Holdings Ltd. announced the completion of the acquisition of Olifant Vodka. J. Patrick Kenny, president and CEO of Drinks Americas, stated, "Olifant immediately
January 30 and 31/Atlanta/Health Insurance Law Weekly and Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- The Coca-Cola Company has been served notice a class action lawsuit filed over what the Center for Science in
Prepared Foods Exclusive: Administration Hold on Pipeline Regulations The Obama administration has sent a memorandum to agency and department heads requesting that proposals and regulations not yet published in the
DNA Names VP January 5/Boca Raton, Fla./Business Wire -- DNA Beverage Corporation announced the promotion of industry veteran Russ Rickon to national vice president of Sales. The promotion comes less
Full PureCircle January 14/Florham Park, N.J./Prepared Foods magazine -- PureCircle appointed former Tate & Lyle sales and marketing vice president Jordi Ferre to the position of vice president and general
Campbell Appoints VP January 14/Food Business Week -- Campbell Soup Company announced the appointment of Maureen Linder as vice president of Global Advertising and Design. She will be based at
Crumbling January 12/Food Weekly Focus -- "This work consisted of two complementary sets of experiments in which breads differing in their recipe and/or process were characterized according to their odorant
Cheese Findings January 12/Journal of Technology & Science -- "To date, only recombinant chymosin has been obtained in its active form from supernatants of filamentous fungi, which are not as
Pressuring Oysters January 12/Agriculture Business Week -- According to recent research from Cork, Ireland, "High-pressure (HP) treatment is being increasingly employed for commercial processing of oysters, but there is relatively