|
Food Industry News
Applegate UK and Ireland Directories
www.applegate.co.uk
The database covering the Food and Agribusiness sector has information
on more than 150,000 companies in the UK and Ireland. It includes companies
that supply or manufacture equipment used in the manufacturing chain,
for example packaging, milling equipment balances. Search by company,
"product", town, postcode or county.
Agra-net.com www.agra-net.com/portal2/
The Agra Informa Group provide specialist information on food, agriculture, soft commodities, fisheries and seafood. The Agra Food News website provides access to their range of publications. Subscription only.
Food and Agricultural Organization of the
United Nations www.fao.org
An incredible amount of information is available free of charge from
the Statistical Databases. For example, you can find the total annual
import and export figures of olive oil in value and quantity for one or
more countries from 1961. No product names are mentioned, though, and
you cannot track the movement of goods between two countries.
Food Business Blog www.just-food.com/blogs.asp
A blog maintained by just-food.com commenting on the global food industry,
key events, and people.
Food Engineering - The Magazine
for Manufacturing Management www.foodengineering.org
News and information on the food production and engineering world wide.
Also "special reports" including the Top 100 food and beverage
companies, and details of exhibitions and conferences. The Replacement
Parts Directory is US only.
Food for Thought www.fft.com
FFT is a Swiss, independent, international food and drink consultancy.
Its International Food & Drink markets database covers 25 countries and
114 product markets. You can browse by category, product and country or
search the database (Do it Yourself) on a number of criteria. The Company
Profiles section enables you to specify products and countries for a particular
company and generate a report. Most of the information is priced but there
is a free Mergers & Acquisitions Monitoring service, a free newsletter
and free executive synopses on various food sectors.
Food Processing Technology
http://www.foodprocessing-technology.com/
Maintained by SPG Media , this site provides information on industry projects
in production or under development, an A-Z company index of contractors
and suppliers, a catalogue of companies by product or service, a diary
of relevant exhibitions and conferences, and a list of industry organisations.
Food Science Central
www.foodsciencecentral.com
Food Science Central is produced by IFIS Publishing, the producers
of FSTA - Food Science and Technology Abstracts. Food Science Central
is a gateway to free and subscription based information relating to the
world of food science, food technology and food-related human nutrition.
As well as news there is a list of 3000 links to food related web site.
To access most of the free information you need to register.
The Grocer www.thegrocer.co.uk
The web site of The Grocer magazine covering the UK food mnaufacturing
and distribution industry. Most of the content is available to subscribers
only. Full access to thegrocer.co.uk and hardcopy of the magazine delivered to your door is
GBP 121.95 + VAT. Access to thegrocer.co.uk is
GBP 99.00 + VAT. The manufacturers and suppliers directories
covering UK and Europe can be searched free of charge at http://www.grocerdirectories.co.uk/home/home.aspx.
You can browse by sector or use the Who/What/Where Search. Basic information
such as company name and address can be viewed free of charge. Telephone,
fax, email and more detailed information are available only to subscribers.
InfoGrok Consumer www.infogrok.com/index.php/consumer/
InfoGrok Consumer provides free company profiles, business analysis and benchmarking/ranking reports for all major companies in the sector. The site also offers a consumer-focused prediction market, news and premium market forecast reports covering food, drinks and retail sectors.
Just Food www.just-food.com
Free news and information on the international food industry. The Research
section provides access to priced food industry reports from various publishers
including Keynote, Euromonitor, Frost & Sullivan, Leatherhead International,
Mintel. Reports can be purchased online. There is also a blog commenting
on events in the sector. RSS feeds for news headlines and the blog are
available.
Leatherhead Food International
- information, analysis, testing, research www.leatherheadfood.com
Provider of food information, market intelligence and technical and food
research services world-wide. Offers access to publications, training
and the FoodlineWeb database. Priced services.
RTS Resource | Food and ingredients market research and analysis www.rts-resource.com
Formerly Foodstat, RTS Resource covers the international food and drink industry consultants. It provides forecast market trends, historic consumption data, projected market values, per capita consumption statistics, country by country comparison. Priced pay-as-you-go service.
Scottish Food and Drink
www.scottishfoodanddrink.com
A directories of over Scottish food and drink producers and specialist
advisers.
USDA Foreign Agricultural Service
(FAS) www.fas.usda.gov
Information and statistics on food and agricultural production, exports
and imports, consumer trends, and trade issues in about 80 countries.
There is also a free online database of US based exporters. You can search
by product classifications and categories, type of firm (agent, broker,
manufacturer, distributor etc.), location (state), and the region to which
they export. Alternatively you can carry out a keyword search on company
or product name. Information on each company includes address, contact
details, products, regions to which they export, D&B number, annual sales
and number of employees.
|
