Mademoiselle Desserts completed its acquisition of Galana, a Belgian producer of frozen bakery and ice cream products, on June 30. Mademoiselle Desserts now takes over the full bakery and ice cream operations in Waregem, Belgium.
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Panelto Foods, an Irish bakery group specializing in bake-off artisan breads, will join European Bakery Group, establishing the UK and Ireland platform within the pan-European bakery group. European Bakery Group was formed in May 2023 with the combination of Dutch Bakery and coolback.
Bridor ended its plan to build an industrial site in Liffré, as the project started in 2017 and remained at a standstill after six years of legal hurdles. It would take at least two more years until the construction would be cleared to start, which would make the site operational by 2028.
The Middleby Corporation announced the acquisition of TERRY Water Treatment Solutions. The company has a proprietary, environmentally friendly solution to eliminate and prevent scale build-up. Scale resulting from water usage in commercial foodservice equipment, including steam, ice and beverage products can be removed.
ADM acquired Prairie Pulse Inc., a pulse crop cleaning, milling and packaging business in Vanscoy, Saskatchewan, Canada. Prairie Pulse’s operations – which include origination, 12,000 MT of bulk storage, cleaning, milling, sorting, sizing and bagging – will double ADM’s pulse footprint in the region.
Gerhard Schubert, the founder and shareholder of packaging machine manufacturer Schubert, passed away in Crailsheim on July 4, 2023 at the age of 84.
Le Pain Quotidien closed nine UK bakeries, as it went into administration. Out of the nine London shops and one in Oxford, one bakery remains open, located in St. Pancras, London.
Mondelēz Global announced today a voluntary recall of two varieties of belVita Breakfast Sandwich products, manufactured in the US and sold nationwide, due to the possibility that the products may contain undeclared peanuts from cross-contact on a single manufacturing line. No other belVita products, Mondelēz products, or markets outside the US are affected by this recall.
Banss Maschinenfabrik GmbH, headquartered in Wels, Austria, recently took over the Precisma business. Banss Austria expects synergy advantages and an even stronger market presence in the food industry with the new addition, which also strengthens the Precisma brand.
Cooplands, one of the UK’s leading chain bakeries, announced it is closing nine of its stores across the country. The company based in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, is closing branches in Scarborough, Berwick Hills, Skelton and Great Ayton in North Yorkshire.
