Ben Wein

3 days ago | just-food.com | Ben Wein

Seafood Connection – a Dutch subsidiary of Japan’s Maruha Nichiro – has acquired a 70% majority stake in the Netherlands’ Van der Lee Seafish. The €40m ($44.4m) deal sees Seafood Connection acquire shares in Van der Lee Seafish’s subsidiary King Fish Selection. Seafood Connection is headquartered in the Dutch town of Urk and has operations in another ten countries, including Portugal, France, Italy, Poland, Spain, the UK, Bangladesh, Vietnam, India and China.

3 days ago | just-food.com | Ben Wein

Mexican baker Grupo Bimbo is planning to make more than 350 sales staff in Spain redundant, according to union officials. The Confederación Sindical de Comisiones Obreras union called the move an “unjust decision.”Grupo Bimbo did not respond to a request for comment made outside of office hours. According to a statement from the CCOO published last week, Bimbo “intends to initiate another layoff process under the excuse of experiencing continued losses.

1 week ago | finance.yahoo.com | Ben Wein

Dutch food company Royal A-ware plans to close a dairy factory in Belgium operated by its subsidiary Olympia, putting more than a 100 jobs at risk. Olympia's Herne plant near Pajottegem in Flemish Brabant province produces cream, oatmeal desserts and other puddings, yoghurt, milk and chocolate milk, Royal A-ware confirmed with Just Food. However, because the plans are in the early stages the company was unable to say what will happen to production.

1 week ago | just-drinks.com | Ben Wein

Canadian-American brewer Molson Coors has cut its sales and profit forecasts for 2025 after a challenging first quarter. The Cobra, Staropramen and Carling producer is forecasting low single-digit year-on-year decreases in net sales on a constant-currency basis and underlying (non-GAAP) income before income taxes. In February, Molson Coors had forecast its sales by that metric would rise at a low single-digit rate in 2025.

1 week ago | just-drinks.com | Ben Wein

The Confederation of Indian Alcoholic Beverage Companies (CIABC) has voiced concerns over India’s slashing of tariffs on UK spirits as part of the India-UK trade deal, announced yesterday (6 May). In a statement, director general of the representative body Anant S Iyer said the interests of India’s alcohol sector were not reflected in the trade deal.