Food

Dutch retail group Ahold Delhaize has posted robust third quarter results, doing better than analysts had expected. There was a slight growth in its home markets of Belgium and the Netherlands, and significant growths in the US and online.

Last year, Belgian supermarket group Delhaize became the largest distributor in Serbia. The chain is staving off Metro, Lidl and a number of local competitors.

For the first time, Belgian brewery group AB InBev is marketing beer in unlabelled bottles. Using a new technique, the logo and information such as ingredients are printed directly on the bottle. In this way, the brewer intends to easily personalise packaging.

Portuguese supermarket chain Pingo Doce is testing Amazon Go's technology for a cashierless and cashless store - the first of the kind in Europe. The Go 24/7 machine in particular is "new to food retail", says managing director Isabel Ferreira Pinto.

Fast food chain Burger King is going to bring two plant-based burgers to market throughout Europe: the 'Rebel Whopper' and the 'Rebel Chicken King'.

In a brief statement, Belgian vegetable and fruit producer Greenyard has stated that their profit for the first half of the financial year is higher than initially thought. This positive development is the result of strictly applying the transformation plan, the company states.

The ailing French distributor Casino wants to reduce its debts and seems to have found an interested party to offload its Géant hypermarkets to. Discounter E.Leclerc has started acquisition talks for three-quarters of the hypermarkets.