In fact, none of the 1,297 complementary foods tested from six companies were up to scratch, according to the Access to Nutrition Initiative. The food makers disagree.
Mamamade has closed a record-breaking funding round – bringing its total pre-seed investment to £1.5m – led by founders and execs from Allplants, Made.com, Heals, Design my night, Bulb and Xexec.
Fats and oils specialist Bunge Loders Croklaan (BLC) has unveiled a new premium lipid ingredient for baby formula which it claims allows manufacturers to get closer than ever before to the gold standard of mother’s milk.
Little Tummy hopes to disrupt the UK baby food sector with paediatrician-developed meals with more micronutrients and less sugar than other brands on the market.
Danone has taken a minority stake in organic baby food maker Yooji via its investment arm Danone Manifesto Ventures (DMV). FoodNavigator catches up with Yooji and DMV to find out what benefits the tie-up brings.
Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) accept rules on sugary cereal-based baby food should be revised, but have voted against changing a draft on the marketing of infant formula and medical foods.
The “easy money has been made” for Chinese and international infant formula companies as they prepare for the rush for powdered baby food to tail off over the next five years after a decade’s stratospheric growth.
Hong Kong is the world’s fastest growing market for infant formula, followed by mainland China, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam and Indonesia, latest Euromonitor research shows.
Breastfeeding rates have declined significantly in Asia as a result of intensifying competition in the infant formula sector, according to a report from the International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN).
The European Commission has adopted new measures to reduce consumer’s maximum levels of exposure to cadmium in foods such as chocolate and infant formula.
The Indian government has been urged to investigate claims that infant formula manufacturer Nutricia India, a subsidiary of the Danone Group, approved illegal payments by its employees to doctors.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has postponed establishing “official relations” with a malnutrition NGO, after infant health groups raised concerns about its links to large food companies.
A breastfeeding charity has raised concerns that a new study on breastfeeding advice may be leveraged by the food industry to argue for loser labelling regulations for baby foods.
The European Commission has cleared Nestle's proposed
acquisition of Novartis's Gerber business, saying it would not
lead to an uncompetitive concentration in baby foods and
cereals.
Royal Numico reported today that the earthquake that struck the
island of Java at the weekend has significantly affected its
Indonesian baby food operations.
Dutch infant food and nutrition company Royal Numico has achieved
full-year double-digit growth for the first time, as strong sales
in Eastern European and Asian markets deflect rising costs.
Numico, Europe's leading babyfood company, will become the number
two player in Asia through a €1.2 billion deal to acquire East
Asiatic Co's nutrition businesses.
Dutch clinical and infant nutrition group Royal Numico has signed
an agreement to acquire Mellin, a leading Italian baby food
company, from the Findim group, for €400 million in cash and
shares.
Swedish manufacturer Semper aims to increase exports of baby food
to Russia, as the market there is growing much faster than in many
other countries, writes Angela Drujinina.
Royal Numico, the Dutch baby food group, has announced it will
streamline its manufacturing process in an effort to generate cost
savings and focus its energies on clinical nutrition.
Dutch infant nutrition group Royal Numico is to sell its
unprofitable South African baby food business as it looks to
concentrate on regions where it can gain a leading position.
Infant nutrition company Royal Numico says it has reached 'in
principle' an agreement for the sale of its milk powder production
subsidiary Nutricia Lyempf, based in Kampen, the Netherlands.
A number of baby food products, including dried variants, have been
found in a recent survey to contain bacteria that have been linked
to outbreaks of meningitis.
The sale of its supplements business GNC late last year and a new
focus on baby food and clinical nutrition is already paying off for
Dutch group Numico, which this week announced better-than-expected
first quarter results.
Dutch group Royal Numico announced on Friday the end of its
dealings in nutritional supplements, as it completed the sale of
its US business GNC to investor group Apollo Management.
Royal Numico has announced the sale of its Mumbai-based dairy and
baby food activities Nutricia India to a consortium of four Indian
companies, for an undisclosed sum.
Dutch infant food and nutrition company Royal Numico continues to
strive for profitability, but despite an improved performance
overall, divestments and continued poor performance by its vitamins
retail business GNC continue to plague...
Dutch nutrition company Royal Numico has completed the sale of its
US vitamin maker Rexall Sundown, leaving it with no shareholders'
equity, said the firm on Friday.
Europe's leading infant nutrition maker Numico is closing factories
and cutting 525 jobs as part of a cost-cutting plan for its
European baby foods division.
The Netherlands-based food group Royal Numico is to sell its US
vitamin manufacturer Rexall Sundown to rival NBTY for $250 million
(€213m) in cash, it said today.
Reporting its first results since a package of divestments were
announced in November, Dutch food and nutrition group Royal Numico
said net sales for the full year were down by 4.8 per cent to €3.97
billion.
Dutch food group Royal Numico has signed a letter of intent for the
sale of its US supplement business Unicity Network to an American
investment company, Activated Holdings. The transaction is expected
to complete in the second quarter...
Dutch food group Numico said today the head of its US operations,
which includes the struggling vitamin maker Rexall Sundown, is to
step down in a management re-shuffle designed to boost performance.
A new infant formula designed specifically for pre-term infants has
been given the go-ahead by the US Food & Drug Administration.
Enfamil Premature LIPIL is an extension of the Enfamil LIPIL brand
produced by Mead Johnson Nutritionals.
