Brazilian dairy cooperative Cooperoeste has begun packing its Terra Viva UHT milk into 1 litre carton packs from SIG Combibloc, following its investment in a filling machine from the European packaging equipment manufacturer. Cooperoeste ...
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Ball Corporation reported, on a US GAAP basis, breakeven net earnings attributable to the corporation and earnings per diluted share for the third quarter 2016 on sales of $2.8bn, compared to $45m of net earnings attributable to the ...
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Olam Cocoa opened a new Cocoa Product Development & Innovation Centre at its llhéus processing facility in Brazil. The announcement was made to mark the 70th anniversary for Olam Cocoa’s leading Brazilian cocoa brand, Joanes, ...
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As Sony and Microsoft push further and further towards visual perfection, 2016 has also unearthed a yearning for the days when video games had a few less pixels. The Mini NES Classic arrives this month, soon to be followed by a ...
As both exports and imports failed to meet early forecasts, China foreign trade decreased to 2.05 trillion yuan (US$307.2 billion) in October, down 0.6 percent from the same period last year, Customs data showed on Tuesday. China's ...
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Brazilian company Vigor, a unit of JBS Group, has selected SIG Combibloc’s CFA 812 filling machine for its new dairy plant in Barra do Piraí. Commissioned in June 2016, the $40.5m plant can process one million liters of milk ...
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Arcos Dorados, the world’s largest McDonald’s franchisee, announced that it will source 100% cage-free eggs by 2025. The decision reinforces the Company´s commitment to animal welfare, demonstrated by its existing ...
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US-based cereal maker Kellogg has entered into an agreement to acquire Ritmo Investimentos, a controlling shareholder of Brazilian food group Parati Group. The purchase price of the acquisition is about $429m and it will be an all-cash ...
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#makethefuture campaign highlights how cooperation between Shell and entrepreneurs is helping the development of more and cleaner energy ideas International musicians including Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson, Luan Santana and Pixie Lott ...
Global agriculture company Syngenta has completed expansion of its key projects in Brazil and Switzerland to increase its production capacity. It had invested a total of $240m in two Brazilian plants. One of them is the new Elatus ...
Cargill reported financial results for the fiscal 2017 first quarter ended 31 August, 2016. Key measures include: Adjusted operating earnings rose 35 percent to $827 million in the first quarter, compared with $611 million in the ...
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Swiss food giant Nestle and Britain’s R&R Ice Cream have completed establishing a joint venture Froneri to combine their activities in ice cream, frozen food and chilled dairy. The joint venture will integrate both the ...
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UK retail footfall figures for August show that two months on from the Brexit referendum, the unexpected result has had little material impact on how people are going about their day-to-day lives, reports Ipsos Retail Performance. Often ...
Mexican soft-drink bottler Coca-Cola Femsa has signed an agreement to acquire Brazilian Coke bottler Vonpar for R3.5bn ($1.09bn). Under the terms of the deal, Coca-Cola Femsa’s Brazilian subsidiary Spal Industria Brasileira de ...
Stora Enso named Malin Bendz as executive vice-president, human resources and member of the Group Leadership Team. Stora Enso’s current EVP Human Resources Lars Häggström has decided to leave the company. After heading ...
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