Nigeria: Heineken subsidiary Nigerian Breweries to rationalise production
Nigerian Breweries, Nigeria’s leading beermaker and subsidiary of global brewing giant Heineken, has announced plans to temporarily pause operations at two of its nine breweries and optimise production capacity at the other seven breweries, as part of a Business Recovery Plan. In a statement, the firm said the move, which also includes a Rights Issue, […]
Canada: Olymel to close Quebec pork and poultry plant
Canadian meat supplier Olymel has announced plans to close a plant in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec province that manufactures pork and poultry products. This decision comes against a backdrop of falling production volumes, which has led the plant to operate at only 40% of its operational capacity, the company said in a statement. Olymel, which markets products […]
USA: Daisy Brand to build $627 million facility in Iowa
Daisy Brand, a leading manufacturer of dairy-based products, has announced plans to invest $627 million to build a new processing plant in Boone, IA to meet increased demand. Spanning an area of 750,000 square feet, the facility will be the company’s fourth and is expected to create 255 jobs for the region once fully operational. […]
Mexico: Mission Foods to further expand production capacity
Mission Foods, a subsidiary of bakery firm Gruma, has announced plans to spend M$792 million ($46.3 million) over the next five years to build a new plant in Puebla and expand its existing Huejotzingo plant that makes tortilla, toast and fried food. The company said the investment would meet increasing demand in Mexico’s Central, Bajio, […]
USA: Cafe Spice opens second processing facility
Cafe Spice, a leading US processor of Indian meals, has opened a new 70,000 sq ft processing plant in Beacon, NY to boost production capacity and improve efficiency. The state-of-the-art plant reportedly features advanced batch cooking kettles and a continuous chilling and stabilization process utilising spiral chillers. Commenting on the news, Cafe Spice CEO and […]
South Africa: Tiger Brands opens new peanut butter plant
South African consumer goods firm Tiger Brands has announced the opening of a 300 million ZAR ($15.8 million) peanut butter manufacturing facility in the city of Johannesburg, South Africa. The company described the move as one of its largest capital investments for a single project. The new facility aims to modernise operations, providing increased in-house […]
Germany: Rewe opens first fully vegan store in Berlin
Leading supermarket chain Rewe has announced it has opened Voll Pflanzlich, its first store entirely dedicated to vegan and plant-based products, located in the Friedrichshain district of the German capital Berlin. Claimed to offer over 2,700 products – twice as many as a typical Rewe supermarket, the new 212 sq m concept store lists 300 […]
USA: PepsiCo to permanently close Illinois Quaker factory
PepsiCo, the US-based food and drinks business, has announced the closure of the Quaker facility it operates in Danville, in the US state of Illinois. The decision is said to follow a recall of granola-based snacks made at the factory due to potential salmonella contamination. “After a detailed review, we determined that meeting our future […]
South Korea: Innohas to open world’s largest plant-based food facility
Innohas, a South Korean food maker, has announced the opening of a manufacturing site which is claimed to be the largest fully plant-based food facility anywhere in the world. Sited in Jecheon, South Korea, the new facility will reportedly produce Korean-style plant-based foods under Innohas’s Sunlit Foods brand to cater to increased demand for Korean […]
USA: Riviana Foods expands production capacity at Memphis plant
North American rice and pasta specialist Riviana Foods has announced it has completed the first phase of a $80.6 million investment in a start-of-the-art processing and packaging plant in Memphis, Tennessee. In a press release, the Ebro Foods subsidiary said the first phase of the project upgraded approximately 20,000 sq ft of the facility to […]