Food Manufacturing Journal - Middle East & Africa Magazine - May 2015

In this issue

They walk the talk
IN THIS ISSUE, two resource speakers at the World Food Security Summit (Gulfood 2015), namely Amin Khayyal, general manager at DuPont in the UAE, and Alex Smith, the founder of UK-based Alara WholeFoods, share their company’s role in promoting food security and sustainability.
Alara, featured in boardroom connection is a company of many firsts – first to produce organic muesli in the UK and the first manufacturer in the world to achieve Zero Waste. Mr Smith says he also aims for Alara to become the first most sustainable manufacturer in the world.
DuPont has always been a supporter of food security and sustainable practices. These are detailed in special report.
In Nigeria, the Harvard-educated founders of AACE Food Processing & Distribution set up the company in 2009 to address some of the country’s major concerns: malnutrition, food waste, and reliance on imports. The company does so by manufacturing nutritious food products with fresh produce purchased from smallholder farmers, and is helping to displace imported products. More on AACE in dialogue.

Food Manufacturing Journal - Middle East & Africa Magazine Description:

Food Manufacturing Journal - Middle East & Africa is published 6x a year in English with highlights in Arabic. The magazine provides the region's food & beverage processing industry with the latest information and technologies on ingredients, processing and packaging, food safety and regulatory issues. It offers practical solutions to improve productivity, reduce cost, and turn innovations into real competitive advantages as well as the latest market information, trade show reviews and videos, and people and company profiles, written by industry experts and correspondents across the region. Also included are exclusive content and articles from industry professionals throughout the Middle East and Africa and from Ringier's family of food industry magazines covering Greater China region, South East Asia and other parts of the world, inclduing International Food & Beverage Ingredients News for China, China Food Manufacturing Journal, FoodPacific Manufacturing Journal, and Modern Food Processing (India). The interactive content allows readers to make direct and immediate contact with advertisers/suppliers and featured companies in the editorial by clicking on the web site and email addresses in each issue, access online content in Ringier’s food website (food.industrysourcing.com), and avail of video content through iTunes and Google Play.