The latest food and beverage industry news and trend analysis

Lotus Bakeries has commenced construction of a new manufacturing facility at its principal site in Lembeke, Belgium, to scale Biscoff output following a 13 per cent organic sales increase in 2025.

Dutch Bros Inc. has agreed to acquire the 29-shop Phoenix East Valley franchise, transitioning the locations to a company-operated model and bolstering its strategic growth footprint in Arizona following the retirement of a 20-year veteran franchisee.

IFF’s new Madagascar hub enables "innovation at origin," merging lab analysis and extraction with local expertise to secure a resilient, high-quality global vanilla supply chain.

The opening of Sucro Can's $135M Hamilton refinery establishes a new B2B infrastructure benchmark, utilising a PPP model to deliver 1M tonnes of capacity for the North American food cluster.

Del Monte Foods designating Pittsburgh as its central hub strategically consolidates R&D, Supply Chain, and Finance, creating an agile, centralised structure for the global produce market.

Carlsberg Group has invested 12 million euros in a new canning line at its Lviv brewery in Ukraine, boosting productivity by 38% and reinforcing its long-term economic commitment to the region.

Germany's largest dairy cooperative DMK Group has invested 25 million euros in a new lactoferrin plant in Altentreptow to target the early life nutrition and pharmaceutical sectors.

Closure Systems International (CSI) has announced the acquisition of two specialised beverage closure compression moulding facilities from Amcor, a strategic move designed to consolidate its North American manufacturing lead and accelerate innovation in lightweighting and post-consumer recycled (PCR) materials.