Crouching Tiger, Roaring Dragon: - Travel News Digest

24 FooD & beverAGe November 2011 · TRAVEL NEWS DIGEST
Food safety rules
The Ireland Food Safety Authority
has ord\ered eight food premises
to close down.
Majority of these are Chinese
and Indian takeaways and
restaurants. Bombay Spice,
South Circular Rd, Dublin; the
Happy Chan, McCurtain St,
Starbucks on
CEO hunt
After China, Starbucks, the USbased
coffee retail chain, is planning
to come to India. It is on the
lookout for a CEO to handle the
Indian operations.
Starbucks management is at
an advanced stage of discussion
to select Tata Coffee for manufacturing
of their retail sales. All
coffee meant for retail sales will
be produced and packaged by
Tata. What’s not clear is that if
the Indian brand will also produce
for the international retail
sales of Starbucks.
Tata Coffee has already
worked with some Russian and
Japanese private label coffee
brands for packaging and manufacturing.
Currently the company’s
production capacity is
6,000 tonnes. They are expanding
it to over 8,000 tonnes and
will take it up to 12,000 tonnes
within this.
Starbucks is looking for an
overseas executive with international
experience with an exposure
to Asian markets in Malaysia,
Thailand, Middle East and
other Asian regions, counting
on candidates who could localise
the brand and design regionoriented
strategies.
Rumour had it that Santosh
Fermoy, Cork; Bella Bia, Dublin
Road, Ballinagh, Co Cavan; and
Ruby King Chinese restaurant
and takeaway, Circular Road,
Roscommon, were closed for
being suspected to be, “a grave
and immediate danger to public
health”.
Unni, CEO of Costa Coffee, will
be selected for the designation.
Tata Coffee is also looking to
set up a few packaging units in
the international market namely
Europe and Russia.
In an interview, MD Kumar,
executive director - finance,
Tata Coffee, explained: “It’s an
Others were served closure
orders for general non-compliance
with food legislation. These
included Alis, Enniscrone, Sligo;
the Punjab Balti, Ranelagh, Dublin;
China Buffet King, Dundrum,
Dublin; and Treacy’s Indiana,
Kilkelly, Mayo.
approach to put in place a more
successful and sustainable business
model without getting into
branding ourselves.
The idea is to be the brand
behind the brands…and ensure
continuous supply of coffee
to established and leading
brands globally”.
Japanese craft distillery
launches First Whisky
The name is “Ichiro’s Malt
Chichibu The First”, and it’s
the first whisky from Japanese
craft distillery Chichibu.This
whiskey has been
launched in Paris, Stockholm
and the UK.
Chichibu The First is limited
to 7,400 bottles.Half
of the stock will remain in
Japan. UK-based, Number
One Drinks Company will
Mother Dairy’s peach jam
Under the banner of Safal,
Mother Dairy Fruit & Vegetable,
is launching a peach jam
without preservatives.
Currently, the company’s
jam segment comprises
apple, mixed fruit, pineapple
and orange marmalade..
The product will be introduced
at 100 Safal outlets of
Delhi NCR in the first phase.
It will be available in a 480
gm jar that will contain fruit
pieces too, and will be priced
at `125 per bottle.
be the second distributor.
It will retail at £89.95/€115/
¥10,000.
Chichibu The First is three
years old and it is aged in Heaven
Hill bourbon barrels. The whisky
has 61.8% alcohol content and is
not chill-filtered.
The distiller behind Chichibu
Ichiro Akuto said he
is planning a heavily peated
Chichibu for August 2012.