Tax on sugar not so sweet for business
TThe new tax being imposed on manufactured goods that contain sugar - products such as jams and ketchup - will cause companies to layoff employees and, in some cases, completely shut down factories.

Seven out of ten food manufacturers surveyed by Dansk

Deputy Labor Secretary talks food processing at RIT
Deputy Labor Secretary Seth Harris was in Rochester Monday checking in on a federally-funded program designed to boost the region's food processing industry.

Harris spoke at RIT to a body of local leaders about how government can team up with both high

Mars Petcare, Nutro break ground on innovation center
Mars Petcare and The Nutro Co. broke ground May 22 on an $87 million Regional Innovation Center in Thompson's Station, Tenn., just south of Nashville. The four-building campus will serve as the companies' home base for creating future pet care innovations

Dairy sector will create 15,000 jobs once EU milk quotas end: economist
Ireland’s dairy sector will create 15,0000 jobs after EU milk quota restrictions end in 2015, said independent economist Ciaran Fitzgerald yesterday at the National Dairy Council conference.

Mr Fitzgerald estimates 5,000 jobs will be created in milk pr