Blackford Capital has made an undisclosed investment in Indiana-based Ellison Bakery, a manufacturer of cookie, snack bar, crunch and inclusion product, and other products for the industrial market, food service industry, and retail and ...
Tags: snack bar, food service
We're proud to introduce Melody and hope she'll serve as an important role model to girls,'says American Girl's Katy Dickson. American Girl has added a new character to its BeForever doll line, in the form of character Melody Ellison. ...
General Motors Financial broke ground on a new financial servicing center in San Antonio, Texas, US. "We are proud to call San Antonio the future home of our fifth Servicing Center in North America, and excited to break ground on this new ...
OPM (Labels & Packaging) has invested in GMG OpenColor's high-end color management software solutions in a bid to provide better quality repro and print services to customers in the packaging industry. GMG OpenColor creates ...
2015 Eurasia Commodity and Trade Expo & Industrial Cooperation Summit was held in Urumqi on August 12, 2015. The 1st Eurasia Commodity and Trade Expo will last for 5 days, theming on “building the Silk Road Business Platform, ...
British grocer Tesco has committed to cut the sugar content across all its soft drinks brands by 5% year-on-year basis. Tesco is the biggest seller of soft drinks in the UK and controls 30% market. The firm says the move comes in response ...
Tags: Tesco, Soft Drink, Sugar
For the first fiscal quarter ended May 2, 2015 gross margin at US apparel retailer JC Penney expanded 330 basis points to 36.4 per cent of sales, compared to 33.1 per cent in the same quarter of last fiscal. JC Penney reported net ...
Britain’s MPs have voted in favour of the introduction of plain standardised cigarette packaging from May 2016. Once implemented, England will be the third country to introduce such a law after Australia and Ireland. While this ...
Tags: cigarette packaging, Packaging
A new regulation by the UK government will ban cigarette branding and force tobacco firms to implement standardised packaging of all cigarettes and hand rolling tobacco for retail sale. The move by the government is in line with ...
Tags: Tobacco Products, retail sale, Agriculture
This represents an increase of 3.2% compared with 2012 (8.1bn), and a decrease of 32% compared with 2006 (12.2bn), when reporting began. The number of thin-gauge (single-use) bags used per month by supermarket customers increased from ...
Tags: Carrier Bag Usage, re-usable bags, bags
SKX issued a statement early May 2 saying the company was consulting with advisors about leading an investment group to acquire an intersest in the team, currently in the NBA Playoffs amid controversy over its owner's racist comments that ...
Tags: Skechers, NBA's Clippers
Fast food restaurants take a lot of heat for the rise in obesity in the United States, but is it really their fault? A research survey conducted by two food economists revealed that most people believe individuals are to blame for their own ...
Tags: Obesity, fat, lose weight
CHAMPAIGN, Ill., Jan. 22 (UPI) -- Americans blame individuals for being overweight, not the government, restaurants, grocery stores or farmers, U.S. researchers say. Researcher Brenna Ellison of the University of Illinois and Jayson Lusa ...
Tags: individualistic-based society, Obesity, Overweight, Appetite
Fresher for Longer's conference will run on 5 February in central London. The conference is aimed at supporting councils, retailers, brands and related supply chain organisations to take forward the Fresher for Longer campaign in 2014. ...
A cross party group of peers tabled amendments to the children and families bill that would have introduced plain packaging, although implementation will be subject to an evidence review. In July the government delayed plans to ban ...
Tags: Cigarette Packaging, Packaging, Printing