Food and drink

Athens-listed Coca-Cola HBC is looking forward to even greater growth rates after 2023, with investments in new products that will serve the 24/7 strategy (products for all hours of the day and all days of the week), through capitalizing on the data it attaches great importance to, and by optimizing its performance at each point of sale.

Turkish dishes are being promoted in a series of events held across the county and at diplomatic missions during "Turkish Cuisine Week."

Some 30.3 million tons of grain have been transported by 953 ships to the world market through the Black Sea grain corridor since August 2022, a senior official from the Trade Ministry has announced.

Salmon production in Türkiye exceeded 190,000 tons in 2022, as the country ranked second in the world after Iran, the statistics by the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has revealed.

While Iran produced nearly 194,000 tons of salmon, over 1 million tons were produced in 77 countries, the FAO's report stated.

The Ribnica Valley in the far south of Slovenia is best known for its centuries-long woodenware tradition, word has however been spreading fast about it also being home to some of the world's best salamis and sausages.

The soaring retail prices of milk have led to a further decline in the consumption of the commodity this year, by 5.3% in sales volume terms in the year to April, following the drop registered for the first time in 2022.

Inflation has forced consumers to cut down even on basic food items, also switching away from branded products toward supermarkets' private label offerings.

A traditional Turkish seafood dish called "Sinop lakerda," which reflects thousands of years of marine and fishing culture of the northern province of Sinop, has become the first seafood product ever to receive a geographical indication.

"Sinop lakerda" is a pickled dish prepared by slicing toric or large bonito fish, native to the Black Sea region.

Almost two weeks after the zeroing of the tax rate on seven products (bread, eggs, milk, baby diapers, baby food, feminine hygiene products, and adult diapers) in Cyprus, the island's ministries of Finance and of Commerce are in discussions regarding the next list of products that will have a low or reduced tax rate.

The price of the milk that dairy giant FAGE uses as a raw material in its factories in Greece and the US may have fallen by 36.8% and 15.3% respectively in the first quarter of 2023, but the prices at which the dairy industry sold its products increased on average in all the markets in which it operates by 15.5%.

Mlinotest, a leading Slovenian food group, inaugurated a fully renovated dried pasta factory at its home location in Ajdovščina in the west of the country on 10 May. The €7 million investment almost doubles the facility's production capacity.