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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/c76d97/ice_cream_in_polan) has announced the addition of the "Ice Cream in Poland" report to their offering. The Ice Cream in Poland market report offers a comprehensive guide to the size and shape of the market at a national level. It provides the latest retail sales data, allowing you to identify the sectors driving growth. It identifies the leading companies, the leading brands and offers strategic analysis of key factors...

Text of report in English by South Korean news agency Yonhap [By Lee Joon-seung] Seoul, July 8 (Yonhap) - South Korean authorities on Tuesday started a crackdown on restaurants and other food service providers that fail to properly label the country of origin of beef used in their dishes. The Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said all restaurants and catering services, regardless of size, are being checked randomly, although no fines are to be levied on business smaller...

By JOHN C LORSON By JOHN C. LORSON Columnist "She'll be coming 'round the mountain when she comes. ..." Since the very first moment the sun sliced through the clouds of March, and children began to once again consider the outside world as a hospitable, even alluring environment, the Ice Cream Man has filled our neighborhood with the ubiquitous audible reminder that he will be "coming around the mountain" all too soon. I hardly exaggerate when I say that I have heard his dog- worrying,...

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/5acc6e/ice_cream_and_froz) has announced the addition of the "Ice Cream and Frozen Desserts in the United States 2008" report to their offering. This report explores the ice cream and frozen novelty category-going beyond discussion of market trends, segment performance and brand sales to include insight on how this mature market can continue to reach its wide audience as well as opportunities to expand into non-traditional...

Homegrown chips in Wales are taking a back seat to imported varieties due to a shortage of Maris Piper potatoes, sources said. Floods in England and cold weather in Wales have lead to a local shortage of the variety favored by chip shops, the Western Mail reported Friday. Even though potatoes imported from Spain, Holland and Belgium cost twice the price of a Welsh potato, shops are turning to overseas markets to supply them with spuds, the newspaper reported. Yields were poor and the...

Text of report in English by South Korean news agency Yonhap SEOUL, June 27 (Yonhap) - South Korea restarted quarantine inspections of US beef on Friday in line with a new import agreement, as the US product was expected to hit local store shelves as early as next week. Defying intense public concern over the safety of US beef, Seoul implemented the April 18 deal on Thursday, as well as a protocol restricting imports to beef from cattle 30 months old and younger. "Inspectors went to nine...

By Bainbridge, Jane The trend for more premium products and healthier ingredients has boosted frozen desserts. By Jane Bainbridge THE BACKGROUND Frozen desserts have been the whipping boys of the pudding market in recent years. Often perceived as an inferior substitute for fresh desserts, heavily price-promoted and appealing to poorer consumers, sales were in decline and suffering from a lack of consumer interest similar to that experienced in other frozen-food categories. Growing concern...

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/2fcec6/canned_foods_marke) has announced the addition of the "Canned Foods Market Report Plus 2008" report to their offering. Sales growth in the canned foods market slowed significantly between 2006 and 2007, as the wave of innovation and new product development (NPD) that boosted the market in the preceding years came to an end. Indeed, but for an unprecedented period of food inflation in 2007, sales would have fallen in...

By Dawn House, The Salt Lake Tribune Jun. 25--Besides paying more for a tank of gasoline, consumers are being hit with smaller food packages in grocery stores that cost the same amount of money as their larger predecessors. The mantra used to be supersizing. Now, it's downsizing -- from cereal, margarine and ice cream to smaller packages of gum. Kellogg Co. started shipping smaller boxes for five of its brands in June -- effectively raising prices for the second time this year....

By Scott Joseph, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Jun. 20--The Hound has been feeling nostalgic lately. I recently passed my 20-year mark as the Sentinel's restaurant critic, and I've been thinking about all the change that has happened in the last two decades. A lot of it has been on and around Park Avenue in Winter Park. One of the fun little hot spots back then was Dexter's. But it wasn't in the spot it is now, in Winter Park's West End; it was in a little space at 200 W. Fairbanks Avenue, a...