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CARACAS, April 5- Venezuela's leading beer and food company, Empresas Polar, responded sharply on Friday to renewed government criticism, saying the state currency board owed it $141 million and was delaying the release of dollars for up to 200 days.
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*Cargill, JBS, Maple Leaf Foods, Olymel biggest Canada packers. MOSCOW, April 5- Russia plans to ban meat imports from most Canadian and Mexican suppliers from April 8 over concerns about the use of the feed additive ractopamine, Russia's veterinary and phytosanitary service said on Friday.
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LAS VEGAS-- An Iowa couple has become the first to get married at the Denny's wedding chapel in Las Vegas. Nancy Levandowski and Steve Keller tied the knot Wednesday evening, while some well-wishers sat in booths and restaurant patrons ate dinner nearby.
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April 4- Hundreds of fast-food restaurant workers in New York City turned out for protests on Thursday in what organizers said would be their largest rally yet for better pay. Employees from familiar chains such as McDonald's Corp, Burger King and Yum Inc's KFC are seeking to roughly double their hourly wage to $15.
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April 4- Hundreds of fast-food restaurant workers in New York City are expected to walk off the job on Thursday in what organizers said would be their largest rally yet for better pay. Employees from familiar chains such as McDonald's Corp, Wendy's and Yum Inc's KFC are seeking to roughly double their hourly pay to $15.
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CHICAGO, April 3- BBQ fans, brace yourselves: "Pork butt" will soon be a thing of the past. The revised nomenclature emerged after two years of consumer research, which found that the labels on packages of fresh cuts of pork and beef are confusing to shoppers, said Patrick Fleming, director of retail marketing for trade group National Pork Board.
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CHICAGO, April 1- U.S. agribusiness giant Cargill Inc on Monday said it named Marcel Smits, the former chief executive of packaged food maker Sara Lee Corp, as its chief financial officer effective April 15.
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The cash shortage is raising questions about Egypt’s ability to keep importing wheat that is essential to the food supply, stirring fears of an economic catastrophe.
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*USDA corn stocks report should cheer hog producers. USDA reported the U.S. hog herd as of March 1 at 65.911 million head, or 101 percent of a year ago, a four-year high for that date. The March 1 supply of market-ready hogs was 102 percent of year earlier at 60.077 million head.
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*Fresh Del Monte sued Del Monte Foods. District Judge Sidney Stein in Manhattan awarded Fresh Del Monte much of the relief it requested, after a federal jury last April 6 ordered Del Monte Foods to pay the fresh fruit and vegetable company $13.15 million of damages.
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*Fresh Del Monte sued Del Monte Foods. District Judge Sidney Stein in Manhattan awarded Fresh Del Monte much of the relief it requested, after a federal jury last April 6 ordered Del Monte Foods to pay the fresh fruit and vegetable company $13.15 million of damages.
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NEW YORK, March 28- Pinnacle Foods Inc, the U.S. food company that went public on Thursday, is looking to add more brands to a portfolio that already includes Birds Eye vegetables, Vlasic pickles and Duncan Hines cake mixes, its chief executive said.
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*Wheat stocks down to 85 days, bread riots a key worry. LONDON/ CAIRO, March 28- Egypt has hit breaking point in its ability to pay for imports of oil, wheat and other basic commodities, forcing it to call in diplomatic favours or seek easy payment terms from suppliers who hope for future advantage in return.
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Thailand is set to sell half-a-million tons of rice on world markets at a loss, as it scrambles to offload a record stockpile deteriorating in quality in warehouses filled with grain.
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The IPO of Pinnacle Foods priced at $20 a share, at the high end of the range. One trader said the stock could pop on its debut Thursday amid expectations of a "hefty dividend."
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Pinnacle Foods Inc., the maker of Birds Eye frozen foods, Duncan Hines frosting and Vlasic pickles, is expected to go public Thursday in the only major IPO this week. The Parsippany, N.J.- based company could raise as much as $580 million in the initial public offering of its stock. It is on deck to sell 29 million shares at between $18 and $20 each.
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*Proposes $300 mln in new equity, $600 mln bond offering. *Extraordinary general meeting scheduled for April 22. ZURICH, March 27- Swiss chocolate maker Barry Callebaut plans to issue $300 million in new equity as well as a $600 million bond to refinance a bridge loan used to fund its planned purchase of the Singaporean group Petra Foods's.
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FRANKFURT, March 27- Nestle, the world's biggest food company, has been fined around 20 million euros in Germany for improper sharing of information sensitive to competition, the country's federal cartel office said on Wednesday.
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Belgian chocolate makers believe their renowned pralines should have similar protection to that enjoyed by French champagne or Italy's Parma ham.
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SOFIA, March 26- Bulgaria's former agriculture minister Miroslav Naidenov was charged on Tuesday with corruption linked to a EU-backed food distribution scheme and trying to bribe a subordinate, as the interim government tries to tackle widespread graft.