AAC Capital Partners has put Fresh-Pak, a large supplier of fillings for the ready-made sandwich market, up for sale. Fresh-Pak is Europe's leading egg mayonnaise manufacturer and has sales of approxi... [more]

Dorset Cereals, the upmarket healthy-food brand could be worth over £50m according to reports. Langholm Capital has hired McQueen as an adviser for strategic choices.... [more]

Grampian Country Food Group, one of the UK's largest food groups, is now up for sale. ... [more]

Gresham, the UK mid market private equity specialist, has announced that it has backed the buy-out of West Cornwall Pasty Company from its shareholders. ... [more]

The Boards of Christian Salvesen and GND have announced that they have reached agreement on the terms of a recommended acquisition by GND of the entire issued and to be issued ordinary share capital o... [more]

Campbell Soup Company has announced that it will explore strategic alternatives, including possible divestiture, for its Godiva Chocolatier business. The decision follows a review of Campbell's portfo... [more]

The Administrators of Bomfords Limited, Dominic Wong, Andrew Peters and David Langton of Deloitte, have announced that the sale of the business and assets was completed on 31 July 2007. The farming bu... [more]

Groupe DANONE’s Board of Directors has decided to consider on an exclusive basis the offer made by Kraft Foods Inc. on July 2 to purchase DANONE’s Biscuits and Cereal Products business. This offer o... [more]

The Real Good Food Company has announced the disposal of the assets and goodwill of its Fish Division, Five Star Fish, its added value frozen fish business based in Grimsby in Lincolnshire, to the pri... [more]

Cadbury Schweppes is looking to sell Monkhill Confectionery, the manufacturer of its 70 year old Butterkist popcorn brand and part of its Trebor Basset confectionery arm, as part of a major restructur... [more]

Cabana Soft Drinks, a subsidiary of soft drinks group Nichols, has announced the purchase of Dunblane based post mix distributor, Cariel Soft Drinks, for an undisclosed sum.... [more]

Tate & Lyle is believed to be close to a full or partial sale of its food and industrial ingredients business. The UK-based company has announced that an announcement over the sale would be made “with... [more]

The UK’s second largest biscuit manufacturer Burton’s Foods, makers of Wagon Wheels and Jammie Dodgers, has been acquired by private equity firm Duke Street Capital for an undisclosed sum. The deal i... [more]

US private equity firm Clayton Dubilier & Rice has reportedly put its European food distribution business, Brakes Bros, up for sale.... [more]

Cadbury Schweppes, is thought to be considering the sale of its drinks business to guard against a potential hostile takeover.... [more]

Patak's the UK-based Indian food brand whose products include curry sauces, chutney, pickles and ready meals, has been put up for sale with a price tag of £200m. ... [more]

Wimpy, the chain of 194 burger outlets, is to be acquired by Famous Brands of South Africa in a deal that values the business at £13m.... [more]

Milligans is to sell 15 bakery outlets and its Newcastle factory to North-East Bakeries, creating a combined group with 21 shops and 130 staff.... [more]

Troubled sandwich chain Benjys closed all 46 of its branches yesterday as it entered administration for the second time since July last year.... [more]

Finsbury Food is to acquire Lightbody, the Hamilton-based cake manufacturer with about 1,000 staff, for £37.5m.... [more]