Canada-based Agropur Cooperative has signed an agreement with Agrifoods to acquire Ultima Foods. Ultima Foods was a 50-50 joint venture by two of Canada’s leading cooperatives; Agrifoods and Agropur. With more than 40 years of ...
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Corrugated shipping containers manufacturer Rusken Packaging has acquired Great Southern Industries. Founded in 1962, Great Southern Industries manufactures corrugated containers in its 189,000 square foot facility located in Mississippi. ...
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Family-owned dairy business Kyvalley Dairy Group has acquired Murray Goulburn’s Kiewa Country brand along with the processing and packing equipment for an undisclosed sum. The Kyabram-based company purchased the brand and several ...
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Packaging materials developer Tekni-Plex has started production at its new manufacturing facility in Suzhou, China. The new advanced facility, which features 140,000ft² of space, has already began producing products for the ...
US-based Hormel Foods has entered into South America with the acquisition of Brazilian meat company Cidade do Sol for about $104m. Cidade do Sol offers over 70 products in 15 categories that include meats like mortadella, sausage and ...
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A subsidiary of Flagship Food Group has acquired various assets of Glutenfreeda Foods, including its brand portfolio and its USDA manufacturing facility near Seattle, Washington. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed, but Flagship ...
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Paper and packaging firm Smurfit Kappa has acquired Russia-based corrugated packaging company, Soyuz, for an undisclosed sum. Based in Moscow, Soyuz manufactures corrugated packaging products for a range of sectors. It has around 300 ...
Austria-based plastic packaging firm Greiner Packaging has acquired the remaining 49% stake in Turkish joint venture (JV). Greiner acquired 51% majority stake in Teknik Plastik and Teknik IML in 2015, which were merged to form Teknik ...
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ICE Service Group, through its packaging group ICE Packaging Company (ICE), has acquired Strategic Packaging Systems (SPS), which is based in the US state of Tennessee. Established in 2009, SPS designs, manufactures and distributes soft ...
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Tokyo-based Showa Denko K.K. (SDK) has expanded its product lineup of infrared light-emitting diode (IR-LED) chips, which are mainly used as parts of photo-couplers for gate drivers in power semiconductor modules and parts of sensors for ...
Sun Chemical has acquired US-based Joules Angstrom U.V. Printing Inks for an undisclosed sum. Based in Ohio, Joules Angstrom manufactures UV printing inks for converters in the commercial, packaging and specialty markets. The ...
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Flexible packaging firm ProAmpac, part of the Pritzker Group Private Capital portfolio of companies, has completed the acquisition of Clondalkin Flexible Packaging Orlando from Holland’s Clondalkin Group. The companies did not ...
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NXT Capital has provided a senior secured credit facility to support Oliver Printing & Packaging’s acquisition of Pohlig Packaging. Oliver Printing & Packaging is a portfolio company of Pfingsten. NXT Capital acted as the Sole ...
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Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) has denied reports that it received a formal bid from the Chinese automaker Great Wall Motors (GWM) with respect to sale of its Jeep brand. FCA said that it will stick to its 2014-18 growth plan and has ...
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Great Point Partners (GPP) portfolio firm Softbox Systems has acquired Spain-based Tempack Packaging Solutions for an undisclosed sum. Based in Barcelona, Tempack is engaged in the development and manufacturing packaging solutions for the ...
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