Constantia Flexibles announed that strong sales growth resulted from all business divisions and was achieved primarily by strong volume increases in all regions. Constantia Flexibles, one of the world's leading flexible packaging and ...
Tags: Constantia Flexibles, Sales, Earnings
Arla and Dairy Farmers of America agreed to start a joint venture to build a small dairy plant to produce cheddar cheese. The joint venture will have a combined investment of $58m out of which Arla will contribute 20% or $11.6m. The JV ...
Tags: Arla, Diary Farmers of America, Dairy plant, Chedder cheese
Further details on Aldi’s expansion into Western Australia show things are running on time. While Woolworths supermarkets group announced the ditching of the Homebrand private label, analysts say the decision is an attempt to ...
Tags: Aldi's, Supermarkets
QFC announced a recall of its Fresh Food Market Cranberry Chicken Salad sold in QFC stores in Oregon and Washington. The product could be mislabeled and may contain pecans, wheat, and soy not listed on the label. People who have an ...
Tags: QFC, Cranberry chicken salad
Canada-based food manufacturing company Premium Brands has entered into agreement to acquire Montreal based C&C Packing and affiliate Premium Meat Packers for $146m, in a cash-and-share deal. The transaction, which is subject to ...
Tags: Premium Brands, C&C Packing, Aquisition, Premium Meat Packers
Rigid plastics, flexibles, and board, metal and glass packaging will drive industry expansion across the next five years. In global researcher Smithers Pira's report, called The Future of Global Packaging to 2020, it states that the $839 ...
Tags: Smith Pira, Rigid plastics, Packaging Market
Australia-based dairy company Murray Goulburn (MG) is partnering with Indonesian health and infant nutrition company Kalbe Nutritionals and US-based Mead Johnson Nutrition (MJN), to set up $300m infant formula processing facility at Koroit ...
Tags: MG, Kalbe Nutritionals, MJN, Nutrion infant powders
Kaiser Permanente Colorado is reaffirming its commitment to diminishing the rates of hunger in this state by providing 13 local nonprofits a portion of a $1m grant that aims to increase access to food for all Coloradans. "Hunger is a ...
New data released shows the cartonboard industry must look east for growth, with Asia Pacific accounting for almost two thirds of demand for folding cartons by 2018, and liquid cartons by 2019. Diversification of consumption patterns, ...
Tags: Cartonboard, Asia-Pacific
Garmont North America welcomed Specialty Sports Reps as its rep team for the Great Lakes region. “Garmont is being well received in the market with strong sell-in and sell-through,” said Bill Dodge, CEO of Garmont. “We ...
Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne delivered his eight Budget today, with some of the main points outlined as such: Business - The headline rate of corporation tax, which is currently at 20%, will fall to 17% by 2020 - ...
Tags: George Osborne, Budget, Chancellor
Mead Johnson Nutrition (MJN) will co-locate a packaging plant with the nutritional powders plant dairy company Murray Goulburn (MG) plans to build in Victoria. MG has forged long-term supply agreements with global paediatric nutrition ...
Tags: MJN, MG, Nutrition Packaging
If there’s one thing meteorologists Dan Hicks and Dale Mohler agree on, it’s the fact that soil is warming up early this year, but it still needs a little time to dry out. However, growers can rest easy knowing soil won’t ...
Flemish Fox Brewery & Craftworks, a new craft brewery founded by Christine Celis, and Atwater Brewery, have entered an agreement to brew beer in a new collaboration brewery in Austin, Texas. Flemish Fox Brewery & Craftworks has acquired ...
"We will create an investment environment that is fairer, more transparent and more predictable. China must always be a land that attracts foreign investments," said Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on March 5, in his 2016 government work report ...