AFMASS Western Africa is the largest food, beverage and milling industry's largest conference and exhibition attended by key decision makers from Western Africa Africa to trade, network and learn the latest processing, packaging and safety technologies. Bringing together delegates and visitors from Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, Benin, Ivory Coast and surrounding countries in Western Africa, AFMASS…
AFMASS Southern Africa is the food & beverage and milling industry's premium conference and exhibition attended by key decision makers from Southern Africa Africa to trade, network and learn the latest processing, packaging and safety technologies. The 2018 edition of AFMASS Southern Africa Conference and Expo will be hosted at the New Government Complex in…
AFMASS FoodTech Conference & Expo Tanzania edition is the first conference and exhibition targeted at the food & beverage and milling industry in Tanzania. The event is focused on providing a platform to share vital technical skills to the food manufacturing, retail and foodservice industry; Government agencies and other stakeholders in Tanzania, while enabling the…
KENYA– Africa’s leading food, beverage and milling industry website Foodbusinessafrica.com has over the last year received overwhelming growth in traffic, with a record 10.5 million hits and 650,000 visitors over the past year, thanks to the website’s dedicated and growing readership in Africa and across the world. The increased readership has necessitated the website to…
KENYA- The 2018 of AFMASS Eastern Africa edition has been hailed as a milestone event by attendees, sponsors and exhibitors who participated at the event held in Nairobi, Kenya on the last week of April 2018. The event was held on April 25-27, 2018 at the Nairobi Convention & Conference Centre in Nairobi, Kenya. The event recorded a 44% increase…
RUSSIA - PepsiCo, Inc., the American multinational food, snack and beverage company has opened a new US$42.3 million baby food plant with a daily capacity of approximately 25 tonnes in Russia, reported FoodBev. The new plant will exclusively be used to produce cottage cheese and yogurt products for the company’s Agusha and Chudo Detki brands.…
DENMARK - Chr. Hansen A/S, developer of natural solutions for the food, beverage and nutritional industry has reported solid organic revenue growth of 9% in the first half of 2017/18, led by 12% growth in Food Cultures & Enzymes. EBIT before special items increased slightly to US$167.96 million while in Q2, organic growth was 9%,…
SOUTH AFRICA - Nampak Ltd, the South African plastics bottle manufacturing company has welcomed proposal to sell its glass division in a way to create a more profitable business and address a skills gap, report Reuters. In addition to inconsistent electricity supply and insufficient technical skills at its glass division, the group highlighted that it…
KENYA - East African Breweries Limited (EABL) has secured a Sh12.5 billion (US$125 million) long-term loan from Standard Bank Group to fund the ongoing construction of its Senator Keg factory in Kisumu. The completion of the factory is expected to create 110,000 direct and indirect jobs and push sorghum demand from the current 20,000 tonnes…
NIGERIA – Seven-Up Bottling Company Plc (“SBC”), the bottler of PepsiCo brands of soft drinks in the country, on Friday reported a net loss of N2.5bn for the first quarter of its 2017/2018 financial year (Apr – Jun) despite recording nearly 20% sales growth in the period.
