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4 days ago | just-food.com | Dean Best

US consumers cooking at home “at the highest levels” in five years boosted sales at The Campbell’s Company in its latest quarter. In the three months to 27 April, Campbell’s generated net sales of $2.5bn, up 4% year on year. Sales increased 1% on an organic basis “primarily driven by 2% favourable volume/mix”. Campbell’s said the volume/mix within its Meals & Beverages division jumped 7%, driving a 6% rise in organic sales. The unit’s reported third-quarter net sales stood at $1.46bn.

4 days ago | just-food.com | Dean Best

Danone is set to more than double the output of its manufacturing plant in Kazakhstan. The French giant plans to spend €6m ($6.9m) across this year and next at its dairy factory in the Almaty region. At present, the site makes more than 18,000 tons of products a year, a third of which is exported to countries in the Caucasus, central Asia and Mongolia. Danone wants to increase the site’s output to 40,000 tons, the company confirmed to Just Food.

5 days ago | just-food.com | Simon Harvey

India has lowered the import tax on crude cooking oils such as sunflower in a move welcomed by the local industry association. The country’s finance ministry has cut the import tax from 20% to 10% for crude sunflower and by the same percentile for crude palm and soy bean oils. When the so-called agri-cess tax of 5% and the social welfare cess duty are applied the effective import tax rate now stands at 16.5% for all three oils.

5 days ago | just-food.com | Dean Best

Arena International, Just Food’s sister events business, is holding its newest conference later this month, with a forum focusing on sustainability in the food industry. Executives from Mondelez International, Danone and Arla Foods are among those set to speak at Eco Foods 2025 at The Minster Building in London’s financial district.

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

Mondelez International is suing the Germany-headquartered discount food retailer Aldi over its packaging designs on snacks that it alleges mimic its own. The US-based snacks and confectionery giant filed the lawsuit at a court in Illinois on Tuesday (27 May), seeking damages and a permanent injunction to block Aldi from using the packaging.