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Now, excess lead in ITC's Yippee noodles
The Uttar Pradesh Food and Drug Authority (FDA) has reportedly found excess lead in Yippee noodles of domestic giant ITC Ltd and will soon file a case.
The FDA said that the samples of Yippee noodles, seized from a local...
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Teabox uses algorithms for personalised tea subscription service
Teabox, the Siliguri based tea e-tailer, has launched ‘Personalized Tea Subscription Service’ today. This first-of-its-kind program is powered by Teabox’s patent-pending machine-learning technology that personalises and matches every individual’s tastes to a selection of teas, company said in a...
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Australian major FAL enters India's nutritional food and beverages market
Sydney-based Flavor and Life (FAL) is set to enter the Indian market by setting up a subsidiary to market branded coconut water.
The company's flagship brand, Coco Joy, made with natural coconut water will be endorsed by ace cricketer Sir...
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Walmart bets on e-commerce growth on back of 4G technology
Retail giant Walmart expects its e-commerce segment to grow substantially in India with 90 per cent of its business to be ‘digitally-influenced’ with the advent of better online connectivity technologies such as 4G.
Walmart, which had recently launched two mobile...
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Spencer’s opens two hypermarkets in Hyderabad on Independence Day eve
Spencer’s Retail has announced the launch of two new hypermarkets in Hyderabad which will commence business on the eve of Independence Day. With this, the city now has five hyper stores, among the highest in the country.
Part of the...
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Mobile-first grocery retailer iOrderFresh raises seed funding
Delhi-based online fresh food and grocery store iOrderFresh, has reportedly raised an undisclosed amount of funding led by Best Foodworks Pvt. Ltd. Best Foodworks’ founder Alkesh Tandon will join the Board of iOrderFresh.
Funds raised in this round will go...
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Maggi fracas stays: FSSAI refuses all-okay
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has rejected findings of the Food & Drugs Laboratory of Goa as well as CFTRI, Mysore over test discrepancies, related to Maggi Noodles, according to a press statement.
Rubbishing tests conducted...
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Ashish Bahuguna, former agriculture secretary, government of India, has been appointed as the chairman of the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI). The tenure of the chairman is for three years. Until now, Health Secretary Bhanu Pratap...
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Tata to diversify into premium speciality coffee
Tata Coffee is reportedly looking at tapping the growing speciality coffee market, and is also looking to transform itself into a premium specialty coffee company rather than only being a commodity player."Tata Coffee has been consistently moving up the...
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Cremica Food to set up food park on investment of Rs 200 cr
Leading HoReCa supplier and food manufacturer Cremica Food Industries Ltd has planned to invest Rs 200 crore for setting up a food park and manufacturing plant in Himachal Pradesh, which is expected to be operational by the next fiscal....
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Farmland Premium Foods taps growing scope of Belgian food products
On the eve of the Belgian National Day on July 21, 2015, the Embassy of Belgium in New Delhi turned into a venue for the connoisseurs of food and food importers / traders. The evening dinner which was hosted...
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Made-in-India wine produce crosses 1.15 cr litres-mark
Out of the total count of 93 wineries in the country , 75 are in Maharashtra and 37 in Nashik alone. The wine sales in the country rose by 21 per cent from 95 lakh litres during 2013-14 to...
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Godrej Nature’s Basket partners with Yes Bank
With 33 premium stores strategically located at high street locations in Mumbai, New Delhi, Pune, Bangalore and Hyderabad, a one-stop-destination for fine foods from across the world, Nature's Basket has morphed into an omni-channel gourmet retail chain and also...
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KMF to enter Mumbai, Pune markets; to invest upto Rs 500 cr
India's second largest milk cooperative with a turn-over of Rs 10,000 crore, Karnataka Milk Federation (KMF), which sells milk under the Nandini brand, is looking at entering Mumbai and Pune markets in a month or two with fresh milk....
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