Alliance, Likely To Be A 50:50 JV, May Initially Consider Wellness Packaged Water

THE proposed Tata Tea-PepsiCo joint venture for noncarbonated, health and wellness beverages is believed to be exploring the low-cost, bottom-of-pyramid segment of beverages.

HARDLY a week goes by without a food brand announcing a health initiative as they seek to position themselves as a force for good in the fight against obesity.

Seema Sindhu / New Delhi March 29, 2010, 0:32 IST

The Ministry of Food Processing Industry (MoFPI) plans to hold a meeting with related ministries to reduce duplication of functions. The meeting with the ministries of agriculture, commerce and rural development is expected to take place next week.

BHUBANESWAR: Union Minister for Food Processing Industries Subodh Kant Sahay today advised the State Government to lay equal emphasis on food processing industries like it has given to mineral-based industries and incentivise the sector to attract more investment.

Despite price boil, dairy industry most competitive globally
Growing Interest Of Local & GLobal Cos Likely To Double Sector Size To Rs 5,20,000 Cr By 2011

With the municipal polls coming up in a few months and the Assembly elections slotted for next year, the Left Front government in West Bengal led by Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Monday hoped to recover lost grounds by presenting a Budget that promises more jobs, puts emphasis on agriculture rather than industry and rolls out goodies to the poor and landless.

The Left Government in Kerala seems to be bracing for another war on softdrink giants Pepsico and Coca-Cola. An Assembly panel, constituted to look into the ground water exploitation by the Pepsico bottling plant at Pudussery in Palakkad on Wednesday submitted the report in the House, suggesting that drawing of water should be cut drastically from seven lakh litres a day to 2.34 lakh litres.