Royal DSM, a life sciences and materials sciences firm based in the Netherlands, c, a New Zealand based producer of nutritional products for both human and animal markets, for an undisclosed amount. Unitech, established in 1970, is ...
The Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF), an India-based milk co-operative operating under the Amul brand, has reported a turnover of INR137.35bn ($2.29bn) during the year 2012-13, a growth of 18%, compared to INR116.68bn ...
Tags: Dairy Product, Milk
Textile machinery manufacturers in France have historically contributed to the development of the textile industry through supplying machines for the long fibre spinning industry, twisting and texturing of yarns, jacquard machines and ...
Tags: France, Textile Machinery, Textile
The recipient of the 2013 R. Stanton Avery Lifetime Achievement Award is announced as Tomas Rink, president Ritrama Group. The Label Industry Global Awards judging panel met in Munich prior to the opening FINAT’s annual Congress, to ...
Tags: Apparel&Accessories, Bags, Belgium
The top 200 companies enjoy more than 50 percent of the global industrial pump business. Another 5,000 companies average less than $4 million in sales each. According to the McIlvaine Company in Pumps: World Markets the concentration of the ...
Flagship Food has completed the acquisition of Atlantic Foods, a supplier and manufacturer of menu solutions to the UK foodservice market, for an undisclosed amount. The deal will bring together two businesses focused on developing, ...
Tags: Flagship Food, Atlantic Foods
Britain's leading bakery brand owner Warburtons has completed the purchase of speciality bread and pastry manufacturer Giles Foods, for an undisclosed sum. Warburtons said the agreement underlined its commitment to growth and ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
To get an idea of how American coastal waters might look just before they succumb to all the degradations they have suffered these past five centuries, it would be worth taking a July trip to Mobile Bay, an Alabama inlet that feeds into the ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Own-brand plush recalled after girl gets item caught around her neck. The East of England Co-operative Society has recalled a toy after a four-year-old "almost strangled herself" with it. Emma Charles from Colchester got the strap tied ...
The Textile Effects division of Huntsman Corporation announced it has obtained a judgment from the Intermediate People's Court in Shanghai, China, against Shanghai Colva Dyestuff Industry Co., Ltd. (“Colva”), a manufacturer of ...
Tags: Huntsman Textile, Patent Suit
The largest exporter of home textiles from Pakistan has recently joined forces with international retailers and manufacturers to establish the Sustainable Textile Coalition. Launched in February 2013 in New York, the coalition aims to ...
Tags: Textile Mills, Textile
The manufacture of cosmetics is currently dominated by a small number of multinational corporations that originated in the early 20th century, but the distribution and sale of cosmetics is spread among a wide range of different businesses. ...
Tags: Cosmetic
In March, the French pallet producer Palettes Gestion Services (Groupe PGS) took over all shares in the French pallet producers F. Arnaud and Palsud, from the Arnaud Group. The two companies together generate annual turnover of roughly ...
Tags: pallet producers, pallet, Construction
Some eight million Brits run an online business from home. Research from Direct Line for Business claims that 5.2 million people in the UK specifically purchase goods to resell, while 2.8 million sell home made products such as greeting ...
Tags: Toys, purchase goods
The South African Competition Commission (SACC) has conducted an investigation into the dealings of six glass suppliers and has charged them with "cartel conduct" and proposed that a penalty be levied against them. The SACC had ...
Tags: Glass Suppliers, glass