Alex Clere rounds up the day's biggest news in the world of food and beverages, including: JBT Corporation acquires HPP systems supplier Avure for $57m, FrieslandCampina puts its Riedel juice business up for sale, and Unilever debuts new brand of premium teas called Pure Leaf

Alex Clere takes a look at the day's biggest news in the world of food and beverages, including: Mead Johnson acquires spray drying facilities in Australia from Bega, Starbucks to add limited-time macchiatos in North America, and Pioneer Brewing set to invest in Goose Island beer

Alex Clere rounds up the day's biggest news in the world of food and beverages: Morinaga & Co could merge with Morinaga Milk 'by early 2018', Carlsberg delivers sustainability improvements in all areas, and Cascades Sonoco invests in water-based coatings plant

Darren Wood rounds up the day's top stories in the world of food and beverages, including: Starbucks to bring nitro cold-brew coffee concept to Europe, Tate & Lyle plant upgrade to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half and Cathay Pacific develops beer designed to be drunk at 35,000ft

Darren Wood rounds up the day's top stories in the world of food and beverages, including: Glanbia forms new joint venture in Ireland with Glanbia Co-op, Tyson Foods to stop using antibiotics on its chickens and Pepsi building ‘one of its largest plants’ in Saudi Arabia – reports

Darren Wood rounds up the day's top stories in the world of food and beverages, including: Hungarian milk processor Alföldi Tej invests in Debrecen site and value of UK’s food and drink exports passes £20bn.

Darren Wood rounds up the day's top stories in the world of food and beverages, including: Kraft Heinz withdraws interest in Unilever after initial bid rejected, Arla launches TV campaign to support branded organic milk and Growth in China’s FMCG market ‘slowest for a decade’ – Kantar

Unilever has confirmed that it has rejected an offer believed to be worth around £100 billion from Kraft Heinz with regards to a potential merger.

Alex Clere delves deeper into the offer, and asks whether such a large deal would be feasible for either Unilever or Kraft Heinz.

DarrenUnilever rejects Kraft Heinz bid to become second biggest food firm, Constantia Flexibles invests 3m euros in dairy printing upgrade and Coca-Cola Spain launches new line of premium mixers for bars

Acacia gum is widely misunderstood across the globe. Many of us are not too sure if it is natural and clean label and have no idea of its applications in the beverage industry.

Here, Frédéric Alland, owner of Alland & Robert speaks from one of the plantations in Senegal, Africa about the sourcing, harvesting of this useful, calorie free and fibre rich crop.

Darren Wood rounds up the day's top stories in the world of food and beverages, including: Sonoco acquires Peninsula Packaging Company for $230m, First beer from new alcohol-free brewery to roll off production line and Dangerous Don mixes two famed Mexican exports in latest spirit

Darren Wood rounds up the day's top stories in the world of food and beverages, including: Tetra Pak invests 24m euros in carton closure plant in Thailand, ‘Over 60%’ of e-commerce to be conducted on phones by 2020 and US Foods acquires foodservice distributor All American Foods

Food safety is truly a global concern, with the major challenge being globalisation of the food industry, which has two impacts trade harmonisation and also the problem with this creating much more complicated supply chains, which are by far the top two ways in which food safety concerns have grown.

Darren Wood spoke with leading industry expert Alex Bromage, food safety and quality services business manager at Tetra Pak to talk about this issue.

Darren Wood rounds up the day's top stories in the world of food and beverages, including: Starbucks rolls out bottled iced teas in partnership with AB InBev, Healthy chocolate set for ‘twice the growth’ as regular chocolate and Synergy launches new range of chocolate flavours for Valentine’s

Darren Wood rounds up the day's top stories in the world of food and beverages, including: Heineken agrees deal to acquire Kirin’s struggling Brazil business, Innis & Gunn works with whisky maker on new barrel-aged stout and Synergy launches new range of chocolate flavours for Valentine’s

Darren Wood rounds up the day's top stories in the world of food and beverages, including: Mead Johnson agrees $17.9bn takeover from Reckitt Benckiser, Bühler ‘significantly increased’ R&D investment amid strong year and Cold Stone Creamery enters Chile with new grab-and-go product

Darren Wood rounds up the day's top stories in the world of food and beverages, including: RPC Group to acquire American packager Letica for ‘up to $640m’, Puratos buys European bakery ingredients specialist Diamant and Cold Stone Creamery enters Chile with new grab-and-go product

Darren Wood rounds up the day's top stories in the world of food and beverages, including: Mondelēz International reports revenue slump of 8.1%, Sappi to invest $300m in North American and European business and Watmuff & Beckett secures £75,000 funding on Dragons’ Den

Darren Wood rounds up the day's top stories in the world of food and beverages, including: Mondi Group continues M&A activity with £33m Excelsior deal, Heineken to invest in 40,000-bottle-an-hour French expansion and Global coconut water market forecast for growth of over 25%

Darren Wood rounds up the day's top stories in the world of food and beverages, including: Glanbia acquires two nutrition businesses for combined €180m, Can-Pack Metal Closures opens new production plant in Poland and Parag Milk Foods launches new whey protein product in India

Alex Clere rounds up the day's biggest news in the world of food and beverages, including: Gruppo Campari acquires independent gin Bulldog for $58m, Nestlé announces plans to expand Wisconsin manufacturing plant, and company launches 'robot barista' that makes your coffee for you.

Alex Clere rounds up the day's biggest news in the world of food and beverages, including: Mead Johnson 'in talks' over $16.7bn Reckitt Benckiser acquisition, sugar taxes 'discriminatory and ineffective' says new Coke CEO, plus Fonterra launches new ingredient with 10% more protein

Alex Clere rounds up the day's biggest news in the world of food and beverages, including: Diageo to open first Guinness beer factory in US for 60 years, New Zealand craft brewer bought out by Heineken-owned DB Breweries, and Bidvest Foodservice launches range of artisan coffee for foodservice