Dairy-free vegan chocolate maker Moo Free is facing trademark pressure from confectionery giant Mondelez International. Moo Free is the second brand challenge the US-headquartered confectionery giant ...

Mondelez International has taken legal action against Joyride, alleging the US candy company has infringed the trademarks and trade dress of its Sour Patch Kids brand. In a complaint filed on 2 ...

In a stock-exchange filing today (5 November), Deoleo CEO Cristóbal Valdés confirmed the company had agreed a deal to divest an aggregate 91.99% stake in its core subsidiary Deoleo Holding. Other ...

Nestlé has offloaded UK recipe-kit company SimplyCook to ingredient and flavour supplier Jardox. In a statement yesterday (3 November), Nestlé said the disposal was part of efforts to “simplify our ...

Buitoni, the pasta brand and company once fully owned by Nestlé, is closing a factory in the US, with more than 200 jobs expected to be lost.

Hogan Lovells and Fasken Martineau DuMoulin topped two league tables on the M&A that took place in the consumer sector in the first nine months of 2026.

A fresh wave of cyberattacks targeting refrigeration systems has disrupted supermarkets in Europe. The breaches were reported in countries including Sweden, Belgium and Luxembourg, resembling a ...

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One of Vandemoortele’s bakeries in France acquired through the recent purchase of Délifrance was hit by a fire last week.

Yakult Honsha has confirmed personal information relating to around 40,000 individuals was leaked following “unauthorised access” to its website. The Tokyo-listed company detected the intrusion on ...

Spain-based MaserGrup has snapped up the contract manufacturing operations of North American firm Skjodt-Barrett.