Food & Beverage News

Mega show on food & hospitality
23rd international exhibition for food, food processing, hotel and restaurant equipment & supplies

Budget & Aahar
The Union Budget for 2008-09 has some little provisions to help the food & beverage industry, especially with regard to equipment, machinery and supplies to the food processing and hospitality sectors.

Hospitality, a booming industry in India
Hospitality is a booming industry in India. Tourism and hospitality are the third largest net earners of foreign exchange and they are expected to be number one by the year 2010.

Building trust via DNV
Det Norske Veritas (DNV), headquartered in Oslo, Norway, is an international consulting firm with numerous offices worldwide.

Griffith to showcase customised culinary range
Griffith Laboratories, an international flavour and texture ingredient major, is gearing up to increase its presence in India.

Food processing & agribusiness set for quantum jump
The Indian food processing industry has been growing at an average rate of 7% and the food and beverage processing which is currently around 2% of total production is likely to increase to 10% by 2010 and further to 25% by 2025.

AIFPA seminar on frozen foods
In order to promote Frozen Foods Industry in the country, the All-India Food Processors' Association (AIFPA) is going to organise a National Seminar on "Frozen Foods -Emerging Trends" on 12th March 2008

Let the good times roll
Riding high on the steady growth of the technology and manufacturing sectors in the country, the hotel and hospitality industry in India is thriving, with healthy occupancy levels and consistent increase in demand.

WB govt treats hospitality industry as a milch cow
A major host in the country's industrial boom, eastern India fails to respond as a flourishing hospitality hub due to the state government's stringent taxation rules.

Cake & food art with Noor nozzles
New Maharashtra Mechanical Works manufactures one of the leading brands for cake and food decorating equipments and accessories - Noor. After almost five decades of workmanship, experience and feedback.

Mühlenchemie Nensey - 2nd Indian Millers' Meet 2008
After a great success of Mühlenchemie Nensey 1st Indian Millers' Meet 2005 and Mühlenchemie 3rd International Symposium, June 2007.

Camelina oil a healthy choice of vegetarian omega 3
A growing body of scientific research indicates that omega 3 healthy fats help prevent a wide range of medical problems, including cardiovascular disease, depression, asthma, and rheumatoid arthritis.

Bericap wins packaging innovation awards
Bericap won two awards for its packaging innovations "Oscars de l'Emballage 2007" from the French Packaging Institute for its SuperShorty technology of lightweight plastic closures for carbonated beverages at the ceremony

Kamat Hotels launches VITS & Lotus Resorts in ITB Berlin
Kamat Hotels (India) Limited (KHIL) has launched VITS, the new chain of luxury business hotels and Lotus Resorts, a chain of luxury, waterfront resorts

Convenience key to business models in McDonald's
McDonald's Family Restaurant, the world's leading food service retailer, have re-gridded their McDelivery map across their delivery hubs in west and south India.

PET bottles for wine
Normally wine comes to you in glass bottles. But when Fosters with a famous brand like Wolf Blass puts wine into a screw top PET bottle.

High-speed packaging machine from Bosch
Bosch, the world leaders in packaging technology, is ahead with yet another high-speed packaging machine. SVE 2510, launched recently, is an extremely versatile continuous-motion machine.

Excise exemptions to packaging units withdrawn
Tax exemptions to stand-alone packaging and labelling units set up in tax-free zones of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand have been withdrawn by the finance ministry.

Make your bread safer with chillers
If you want to make your bread more softer and safer or for that matter if you are consuming dangerous unhygenic ice in your products here is the right solution from Superchillers Pvt Ltd.

Indian Hospitality Congress
Indian Hospitality Congress (IHC) is an attempt to provide a common platform to hospitality educators, institutes, professionals and students.

Interiors: Fine finish and exquisite quality
When it comes to fine finish and exquisite quality, the brand of 'Interiors' commands a special place amongst suppliers of kitchen equipment and products for banqueting, front desk, kitchens and restaurants in the country.

Fusion Food
Pradip Rozario shares lessons from his experiments with food

Boom time for budget & mid-market hotels
turbine fuel to 8%; and removal of a number of restrictions on outbound chartered flights, including those relating to frequency and size of aircraft.

Indian FP industry in a nutshell
India is a largely untapped domestic market of over one billion consumers of whom 300 million are potential consumers

Who's who of Aahar 2008
It is a premier exhibition for food, food processing, hotel & restaurant equipment and supplies. Aahar has been recognised as one of the leading events of its kind in Asia.

Soundararajan Best Chef
Chef Soundararajan, General Secretary of Indian Federation of Culinary Association has won the National Tourism Award 2007, Award for Excellence, Best Chef of the Year from the Ministry of Tourism, Government of India.

Kohinoor Foods in Guinness
Kohinoor Foods, one of India's leading producers of food products, organised a Guinness record-breaking 'biryani' event, in New Delhi on March 1, 2008.

Art of baking from Sanjeev Kapoor
It is not everyday that one comes across a book on home baking, (that most exacting of all culinary arts), which is so comprehensive, yet so reassuring to home bakers who are intimidated by the thought of an encounter with an oven.

Budget impact on hospitality sector
The Budget wish-list for 2008-09 included infrastructure status to hotel industry, tax benefit for new 5-star hotels, 100% tax holiday for 10 years

Enter the e-waiter: How about a computer dinner?
Technology is increasingly penetrating the eateries to boost sales

Meiko to exhibit dishwashing range
Meiko, which is an established brand in the Indian market since the early 90s, will be participating at Aahar where their range of dishwashing machines and vegetable washing machines will be on display.

Amrit Foods to tap niche category
Amrit Foods, division of the Rs 600-crore Amrit Group, is aiming to tap niche category of customers who are on the look out for customised products at Aahar.

Sunrise to showcase new products and unveil expansion plans
Sunrise Industries, the manufacturers of disposable packaging products in the fast growing disposable products market, will use the Aahar exhibition (New Delhi, March 10-14), as a springboard for its 2008 programme of activity.

Venus combines splendour and excellence for salad counters
Salad counters would be the new attraction for buyers at Aahar 2008. The salad counters are a unique mix of stainless steel and ceramic.

Barbeque Nation launches its first outlet in Chennai
Sayaji Hotels Ltd has opened its Barbeque Nation outlet in Chennai.

Food & facility services may steadily grow at 40%
The Indian food and facility services industry is growing at a rate of 30-40% and is expected to sustain this growth.