News for the baking industry
Cincinnati / OH. (tkc) The Kroger Company, America’s largest grocery retailer, is launching the country’s first Customer Fulfillment Center (CFC), combining vertical integration, machine learning, and robotics with affordable, friendly, and fast delivery service for fresh food. Located in…
Amsterdam / NL. (tkwy) Just Eat Takeaway.com N.V., hereinafter the «Company», or together with its group companies «Just Eat Takeaway.com», one of the world’s largest online food delivery marketplaces, hereby issues a trading update for the first quarter of 2021. Statement of Chief…
Helsinki / FI. (fg) Finland’s Fazer Group is celebrating its 130th anniversary this year, is financially strong and has a clear strategy for the future. Strengthening the Fazer brand is part of the strategy implementation and supports the Group as it solidifies its position as the number one…
San Antonio / TX. (ppc) C.H. Guenther + Son LLC (CHG), a leading producer of branded and private-label food products, announced that John D. Buckles has been named President and Chief Executive Officer, effective April 29, 2021. Buckles, a seasoned commercial and operations…
Oak Brook / IL. (thf) TreeHouse Foods Inc. announced that Senior Vice President and Chief Operations Officer, Shay Braun, is leaving the Company effective April 30, 2021 to assume the role of President of Select Milk, a group of family dairy producers. In the interim, Braun’s…
Minneapolis / MN. (gm) 301 INC, the venture capital arm of General Mills Inc., is leading a multistage investment of up to USD 20 million in Pots + Co, in partnership with other investors. Pots + Co, the London-based food company best known for its range of hand-crafted potted desserts available…
Houston / TX. (epg) Riviana Foods Inc., wholly-owned subsidiary of Spain’s Ebro Foods S.A., announced an investment of USD 15 million into its plant in Memphis, Tennessee which will improve production and expand instant rice capacity at the facility. In addition to renovating and updating…
Rotterdam / NL. (fbv) The words “healthy” and “natural” are not often linked to sugar substitutes, but Fooditive BV wants to change that. Over the past decade, the Netherlands-based food ingredient manufacturer has been pear-suing sustain-apple solutions to combat global…
Raisio / FI. (rg) At its meeting held after the Annual General Meeting 13 April 2021, the Board of Directors of Finland’s Raisio Group elected Arto Tiitinen as its Chairman and Ann-Christine Sundell as its Deputy Chairman. The Board also decided on its committees as follows: Ann-Christine Sundell…
Stockholm / SE. (axf) Next week Sweden’s Axfood AB invites investors, analysts and so on to a presentation of the interim report for the first quarter 2021. At bakenet:eu we don’t know anything about the leading food retail group in Sweden and the second largest player in the…
