The latest food and beverage industry news and trend analysis

Nestlé UK and Ireland has appointed Gordon Yule as Business Executive Officer to lead its newly combined Nutrition and Health division, effective 1 June 2026.

Finnish food company Raisio has secured €1.8 million in funding from Business Finland to develop functional fibre ingredients from grain processing side streams.

Global ingredients provider IFF has agreed to sell its Food Ingredients division to private equity firm CVC Capital Partners in a deal valuing the business at approximately $4.3 billion.

Charoen Pokphand Foods and FPT Corporation have signed a strategic agreement to deploy artificial intelligence and digital transformation platforms across Vietnam’s agricultural and smart manufacturing sectors.

Global ingredient provider Ingredion has formed a joint venture and acquired a 9% equity stake in India’s Sanstar Limited to manufacture speciality pharmaceutical and food ingredients.

Unilever is investing 270 million USD in a new Global Innovation Centre in New Haven, Connecticut, integrating artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and neuroscience to accelerate personal care, beauty, and wellbeing product development.

Arla Foods and DMK Group have secured final regulatory clearance for their merger, establishing Europe’s leading farmer-owned dairy cooperative with a combined revenue exceeding €20 billion.

Speciality coffee brand Gregorys Coffee has signed its first-ever franchise agreement with long-time employee Stavros Zamfotis to open a new location in Bergen County, New Jersey.