UK: Cadbury to phase out kingsize portions amid FDF health ...
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The UKâs Food and Drink Federation (FDF) has published a new food and health manifesto, setting out the industryâs efforts to help in the fight against obesity.
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Masterfoods, which makes Mars and Snickers, is to stop targeting advertising at under-12s.
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Following a recommendation by the National Product Control Agency for Welfare and Health, sweets manufacturer Panda has decided to withdraw from sale its Salmiakkishot liqueur confections.
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The world&#39;s biggest confectioner Cadbury Schweppes PLC said Friday its full-year results would be at the lower end of target ranges after a wet summer curbed soft drinks sales in Europe.
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Confectionery giant Cadbury faces prosecution under British and European laws following a salmonella food scare last June, a newspaper has reported.
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Unilever, which makes Lipton Tea, Dove Soap and Ben &amp; Jerry's Ice Cream, announced plans to abolish its co-chief executive structure after reporting a drop in sales and a net loss in the fourth quarter.
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The UK's biggest dairy company Dairy Crest is to stop supplying fresh milk to Tesco, a deal which currently brings in about Â£60m a year.
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Cadbury Schweppes, the confectionery to soft drinks group, followed rivals such as Unilever and Coca-Cola yesterday in admitting the poor summer had taken its toll on its sales, knocking its shares.
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In a move affecting the cooking of more than 6 million pounds of french fries a year, Marriott International is eliminating frying oil containing trans fats from its more than 2,300 hotels throughout the United States and Canada.
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COSMETICS giant Boots is set to pull the plug on its high street health services. In a major blow to its much-vaunted new approach to treatment and prevention, laser eye surgery and dentistry will be dumped, along with chiropody and laser hair removal.
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Some king-sized chocolate bars will be cut down to size in Britain next year as leading food manufacturers respond to growing pressure about portion distortion and rising levels of obesity.
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Confectionery giant Masterfoods, which owns the Mars and Snickers candy bar brand names, has said it will stop marketing its &quot;core products&quot; to children under the age of 12 by the end of this year, the Financial Times reported.
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Marketing Daily In what appears to be a first for a food marketer, one of the biggest global advertisers, Masterfoods, the makers of Snickers and Starburst, has decided to end marketing to children under 12 by the end of the year. Masterfoods claims this &#145;&#145;will impact magazine and TV advertising in the US,&#146;&#146; but that it represents less than 5 ...
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Confectionery firms are to stop making some of their king-size chocolate bars as part of a drive to combat obesity. Reducing portion sizes is one of the seven key pledges set out in the first Manifesto for
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A PLEDGE to junk king-size chocolate bars by food manufacturers has been dismissed as a cynical ploy by a healthy eating pressure group.
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Major UK retailers plan to stop adding harmful trans-fats to their own-brand products.
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GREAT Britain&#39;s drive to reduce obesity now includes cutting larger chocolate bars down to size, the food and drink industry said today.