Barilla, the world’s largest pasta manufacturer, is delighted to announce their recent British Frozen Food Federation awards. Their Girasole al Gorgonzola won both Best Catering Product of the Year and the Gold Award for Best New Meat – Free/ Vegetarian Product and come as great recognition of their launch into the UK foodservice market.

Logistics prove to be a “booming” business in Romania as the new EU member reports an annual economic growth of 6.5 %, less trade barriers through EU membership, high investments in road infrastructure and a growing population that is consuming more convenience foods.

The installation of wireless networks has made the intake and release processes in warehouses much more efficient. Before, one lift-truck driver would be responsible for intake and another one for release, which meant that for much of the time the lift-trucks would be driving around empty.

The magazines Potato Processing International (formerly Potato Business World) and Potato Storage International are delighted to announce that their next convention, again in a combined format, will take place on October 10-12, 2007, at the Coast Plaza Hotel & Conference Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

The beginning
● 1927 - Oskar Meier was employed by the Offenburg company Martin, which built washing machines and lathes. In 1927 he and Franz Konrad, who had experience in sales, decided to ‘go it alone’ and initially set up a small work-shop in Friedrichstrasse. That was also where they invented the name which has since become a synonym across the world for first-class dish-washing technology - Meier and Konrad = MeiKo. One year later, in 1928, their small business moved to its present location – the corner of Englerstrasse and Haselwanderstrasse.