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Verde Valle Foods has acquired A Dozen Cousins, a brand recognised for its ready-to-eat beans, rice and seasoning sauces inspired by traditional Creole, Caribbean and Latin American cuisines.

The boards of British food manufacturers Greencore and Bakkavor have agreed on the terms of their long-awaited merger deal.

Newlat Food has signed an exclusivity agreement to acquire Diageo’s production facility in Santa Vittoria d'Alba, northern Italy.

Associated British Foods (ABF) has confirmed it is in discussions with private equity firm Endless LLP regarding a potential merger that could bring Kingsmill and Hovis, under the same ownership.

Restaurant-to-door delivery company Deliveroo has agreed a £2.9 billion takeover by US rival DoorDash.

Lactalis has agreed to acquire Portuguese cheese manufacturer Queijos Tavares from Crest Capital Partners.

Private equity firm Apex Capital has acquired a majority stake in Juanita’s Foods, a producer of authentic Mexican food products in the US.

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) has unveiled a new flavour for its Relentless energy drink line, introducing a tangy Guava variant aimed at capitalising on the growing demand for flavoured energy beverages, particularly among Gen Z consumers in the UK.

Butterfly Equity’s Actus Nutrition, a vertically-integrated nutritional ingredients manufacturer, has finalised an agreement to purchase a 99,000-square-foot processing facility from Foremost Farms USA.