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SUGAR LAND, TX (MARKET WIRE) Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) -- Del Monte Foods Company (NYSE: DLM) (San Francisco, California), one of the country's largest fruit and vegetable canners, is about to complete construction of a distribution center adjacent to its 400,000-square-foot pet food manufacturing plant in Topeka, Kansas.

Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) is inviting individuals or organisations with an interest in food matters to comment on applications from industry to change the definition of 'wine-based beverage'.

LOS ANGELES, CA (MARKET WIRE) Eco-Safe systems USA, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: ESFS) is pleased to announce a Funding Initiative of up to $15,000,000 to make Eco-Safe Ozone Disinfection technology cost-free to Supermarket Chains.

UK brewer Wells and Young's is relaunching Waggle Dance, its honey-flavoured 5% abv ale, with a new look.

Pomegreat is introducing new packaging and a new blend to its pomegranate juice range in the UK.

Importer Freixenet USA has unveiled "flavour cue" packaging in the US for its line of Deakin Estate wines from Australia.

Coca-Cola Amail has distanced itself from speculation linking it to a bid for Foster's Group, according to local reports.

TORONTO, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) Diamond Estates Wines & Spirits Ltd, the award-winning wine and spirits distribution and marketing agency company that owns EastDell Estates, Lakeview Cellars and Birchwood Estates wineries and Dan Aykroyd Wines, has acquired the 20 Bees Winery (originally owned by Niagara Vintners Inc.), announced Murray Marshall, president & CEO of Diamond Estates Wines & Spirits.

The Pepsi Bottling Group has posted a healthy lift in second quarter profits thanks to price rises in the three-month period.

In spite of pressure from campaigners over the environmental impact of rising bottled water sales, per capita consumption continues to rise in the UK. And, writes Annette Farr, the recent mains water contamination scare in Northamptonshire provided an opportunity for some subtle point-scoring in the 'tap versus bottle' debate.