Food News

Stocks and bonds pared earlier gains but then bounced back following the Federal Reserve's latest policy announcement, which suggested its easy-money stance will continue awhile longer.

Jennifer Granholm and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation have announced a $16.7 million grant to train math and science teachers for work in urban school districts in the state.

Two York County snack food companies announced Wednesday that they have called off their planned merger.

Kraft Foods Inc. filed Quarterly Report for the period ended 2009-09-30. Kraft Foods Inc.

The recession has had a major impact on how consumers shop but also how retailers draw them in and a major factor has been price.

According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration , Jelly Belly Candy Company is recalling 7.5-ounce cylinder-style packages of 49 Flavors Jelly Belly jelly beans because the package is incorrectly labeled.

Nov. 6 -- Kraft Foods Inc., which faces a Nov. 9 deadline to come up with a fully financed proposal for Cadbury Plc, reportedly plans to submit a formal bid for U.K. chocolate maker this weekend.

Western Sugar Cooperative representatives are still hoping to find some undamaged sugar beets as the harvest continues in northern Wyoming.

The deal is off for a Pennsylvania snack food company's plan to buy its nearby competitor.

Atchison, KSa ' Tim Newkirk , president and chief executive officer of MGP Ingredients, Inc.

Industrial sites in Idaho are due to benefit from a $350,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to help them boost efficiency.

A federal court has ruled that Tyson Foods Inc. violated federal labor standards for not paying production line employees for the time it takes them to put on and remove protective and sanitary gear.

Food maker Sara Lee Corp. said Thursday cost-cutting, solid sales of new products and a decline in commodity costs drove its fiscal first-quarter profit up 23 percent.

Poultry giant Tyson Foods Inc. cared more about preserving its public image than protecting a million-acre watershed from environmental pollution, attorneys for the state of Oklahoma claimed Tuesday.

Unilever NV, maker of Dove soaps and Ben & Jerry's ice cream, saw net profit fall 36 percent for the third quarter, mostly because earnings in the same period a year ago benefited from the sale of operations.

The deal is off for a central Pennsylvania snack food company's plan to buy its nearby competitor.

A former executive for a California-based tomato processor agreed to plead guilty to participating in a conspiracy to drive up food prices nationwide, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

Updated at 3:12 p.m. BATTLE CREEK, Mich. -- Kellogg Co. says it will pull immunity claims from its Rice Krispies and Cocoa Krispies cereal boxes amid the public's growing concern about swine flu.

One year after federal agents raided Columbia Farms in Greenville County and detained more than 300 suspected illegal immigrants, the plant and its parent company have agreed to make changes.

Something's cooking at Susquehanna Valley's Richard T. Stank Middle School! Actually, something's baking! Wednesday, November 18, 2009, Paula Gray from King Arthur Flour Company will visit the middle school to teach students how to bake bread; and the lessons they learn will help to feed local families! 7th and 8th grade students will start their ...