US-based packaging company Sonoco will acquire a majority interest in Brazilian flexible packaging business Graffo Paranaense de Embalagens for an undisclosed amount. Located in Pinhais, Curitiba, Graffo specialises in producing flexible ...
FineLine Technologies, which provides variable data ticketing and mobile solutions for retailers, suppliers, and manufacturers, has launched a new RFID label named “As You Like It,” an innovative new process, that enables ...
Tags: FineLine Technologies, RFID Labels
Marketer of everyday basic apparel, HanesBrands said it has executed its previously announced 4-for-1 stock split. “The New York Stock Exchange began reporting the split-adjusted number of shares outstanding and per-share stock ...
Tags: HanesBrands, basic apparel
The leadership team at Target Corporation is strategically reviewing its business and has identified the key initiatives that will put Target on a clear path to growth. The retailer's differentiation in the marketplace will be driven by ...
Tags: Apparel, Accessories
Packaging company International Paper's US corrugated packaging container plants servicing food product customers will soon become Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) certified. The certification will be measured against the ...
Tags: Packaging, Food Packaging
McDonald’s USA is planning to source chicken raised without antibiotics to serve in its restaurants, which are important to human medicine, as part of its new menu sourcing initiatives. The company's US restaurants will also ...
Freedom Foods has reported a Net profit of $55.2 million for the first half of the 2015 financial year. However, the Net Profit figure was boosted by the inclusion of a post-tax fair value gain of $52.2 million from the gain on ...
Tags: Freedom Foods, Agriculture
After two tough years of stagnation, in 2014 the power semiconductor device market returned to growth, rising by 8.4% to $11.5bn, according to the report 'Status of the Power Electronics Industry (February 2015 edition)' from Yole ...
Apparel and footwear industry software expert, Xperia Solutions, has launched the new Collaborativ Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software suite, to speed up the product development cycle, lower costs, improve communications, and enable ...
Vaio’s first ever smartphone seems almost assured to be real now, after two new reports from Japan out retail certification and images of the handset’s packaging. Just last month we reported that the Vaio smartphone was set to ...
Tags: Vaio, smartphone, PC Watch
Famous women apparel brands Lela Rose and Protagonist have chosen the cloud-based FashionManager enterprise software solution by RLM Apparel Software Systems Inc., software solutions provider to the fashion industry’s biggest and ...
Tags: Womenswear, Textile
Alvanon, leading global apparel expert, has announced details of the first ever garment sizing, fit, and development project carried out in the Middle East. The project was commissioned by Splash, the Middle East’s largest fashion ...
US-based establishment Golden State Foods is planning to establish a new meat processing facility in Opelika, in the US state of Alabama. To be located in the Northeast Opelika Industrial Park, the proposed facility will see an ...
Abu Dhabi based National Catering Company (NCC) has signed an agreement with Abu Dhabi Ports to secure a 25,000-sqm plot of land in the Khalifa Industrial Zone (Kizad). As part of this new development, NCC will invest around AED50m ...
Tags: National Catering Company, Food
Food packaging and processing company Tetra Pak has received Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Chain of Custody (CoC) certification for all of its converting plants and market companies, making it eligible to supply FSC labelled packages ...
Tags: Tetra Pak, Custody Certification, Packaging