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Diageo Agrees to Sale of Italian Facility to NewPrinces
Formerly known as Newlat Food, an Italian food and drink company now called NewPrinces bought 100% of the share capital for Diageo Operations Italy, according to a Diageo press release which specified the inclusion of the Santa Vittoria production facility.
The site produces a range of alcoholic beverages, ready-to-drink products, and low and no alcohol products, according to a Diageo spokesperson.
The NewPrinces Group is already a leading player in the soft drinks market in the UK, with revenues of approximately €350 million in this category alone...
Foreign-Owned Agricultural Land in the US Increases
From 2022 to 2023, there was a 1.58-million-acre increase in foreign-held agricultural land, according to Farm Bureau. In the US, 45.85 million acres of agricultural land were held by foreign investors in 2023, representing 3.61% of total privately held agricultural land, according to the USDA’s Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act (AFIDA) report which shows an upward trend of land ownership by foreign entities across the nation.
Since 2010, reports of foreign-held agricultural land have increased. This expansion is 21 million acres, or an area larger than South Carolina...
FrieslandCampina to Restructure Dutch Operations, Cut 186 Jobs
Leading European dairy producer FrieslandCampina plans to optimize production activities at its site in Leeuwarden, in the north of the Netherlands, it announced on Tuesday.
The company intends to concentrate activities at the southern part of the site and “eventually” close the northern part to avoid further investment in its upgrading, it said.
“Shifts in demand have made it necessary to optimize our operations,” the firm told Expana.
FrieslandCampina aims to stop production of sweetened condensed milk by 1 June 2026, which it will outsource to Hochwald in...
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