Pearlfisher has created the new brand identity and packaging for iconic UK salt brand—Maldon Salt. Based in Essex, UK, the Maldon Crystal Salt Company is a family business run by the fourth generation of the Osborne family. The salt is still hand harvested using traditional and natural methods which gives it its famous superior quality, loved and recommended by an impressive number of celebrity chefs the world over.

PepsiCo invited a celebrity chef Ferran Adria to help develop new methods and concepts for creative food innovation. The new initiative follows an existing successful relationship between the two parties which began in 2005 and involved Chef Adria’s advice on PepsiCo Spain’s Alvalle brand of chilled vegetable soups and Lay’s Artesanas 100% olive oil among others.

Mars, Incorporated and its subsidiary Mars Food donated $100,000 to support the National Archives exhibition ‘What’s Cooking, Uncle Sam?’ in Washington, D.C. The food exhibition explores the U.S. Government’s influence on the American diet. The money will be used to launch and support the activity with educational programs, publications, and online materials. Mars Inc gors on with social initiatives in different countries.

The UK cooker manufacturer Belling, together with its PR and social media agency Umpf continues the charity campaign ‘Tweet Pie: The world’s shortest recipe book’. The specific recipes are called ’twecipes’, as they were crowdsourced through Twitter. The recipe book includes 50 140-character recipes that have been chosen from over 200 supplied by users.

Nestlé is working closely with retailers in a number of countries on studying the customer behaviour in store as well as after the purchase is made to be able to better serve the customer and improve the overall purchasing experience. For this purpose, the brand has built a number of Virtual Shopping Centers that serve as a base for shopper behaviour research conducted with help of cutting-edge digital technology. 

Nestlé has rolled out a fully automated milk dispenser for babies that allows preparing milk out of coffeestyle capsule by mixing its contents with water at optimal pressure and temperature. This innovative solution for moms who cannot breastfeed or are looking for a supplement to breastfeeding is already available in Switzerland for the price of about $284. Capsules for the BabyNess system are sold at a price which is twice higher than the one of the regular powdered milk for babies.