Swedish automaker Volvo Cars expects to generate half of all sales annually from fully electric cars by 2025, with one third of all cars sold to be autonomous driving cars. The company said that half of its driverless cars will be ...
Premium Brands, a producer, marketer and distributor of branded specialty food products has acquired 100% of Ontario-based Leadbetter Foods. Leadbetter has annual sales of approximately $55 million and is one of Ontario's leading ...
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Clondalkin Flexible Packaging Bury has appointed Alastair Bearman as its new sales and marketing director following the retirement of Martin Hardman. Alastair has 25 years flexible packaging experience with Americk Primopost and Pulse ...
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Stock Slovensko, part of Stock Spirits, has agreed to distribute Beam Suntory’s entire portfolio in Slovakia. the companies have signed a distribution deal, through which Beam Suntory aims to build its brands such as Jim Beam, ...
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The first edition of Salone del Mobile.Milano Shanghai closed with great success: 20,750 visitors came to the show from the first tier regions of China and the central regions with strong growth rate, as Sichuan, Hubei and Henan. An ...
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AR Metallizing has introduced new SilberBoard, which is a compostable packaging alternative to metallized PET board. SilberBoard is a metallized paperboard that can be used as an alternative to the commonly used multilayer composite ...
Premium Brands Holdings has acquired 100% of the shares of Ontario based Belmont Meat Products for $50m. The purchase price of the acquisition is subject to certain customary adjustments. Premium Brands will be paying $49.2m in cash ...
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ConAgra Foods has acquired the packaged foods businesses of Frontera Foods and Red Fork for undisclosed amounts to expand its portfolio. The acquisition includes the Frontera, Red Fork and Salpica brands. However, Frontera-branded ...
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Self-adhesive label materials provider UPM Raflatac has unveiled a new range of label stock products for wine industry. The firm's new Ice and Ice Premium products are designed to meet the standards of the wine industry in the European ...
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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 ...
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Nutcase Helmets has outsourced management of its sales on the Amazon marketplace to NetRush, a Vancouver, Wash. company that already manages Amazon sales for more than a half dozen specialty sports brands. Since launching in 2006, ...
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Venture capital (VC) firm Sequoia Capital has invested in a craft beer brand Bira 91, which aims to capture the growing demand for craft beer in the urban market of India. Venture capital (VC) firm Sequoia Capital has invested in a ...
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US-based alcoholic beverage maker Constellation Brands has agreed to acquire San Diego-based Ballast Point Brewing & Spirits for $1bn. Ballast Point is a US-based craft beer company with an expansive portfolio that includes almost 40 ...
Vibram is taking aggressive steps to prevent the counterfeiting of its products, specifically Vibram FiveFingers. “We will not tolerate counterfeiting of the Vibram brand,” states Mike Gionfriddo, CEO of Vibram USA. “The ...
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Team Sportia Ab of Sweden and its majority owner SGN Sportia of Finland have joined Sport 2000 International, greatly extending the reach of Europe's second largest buying group for sporting goods retailers in the Nordic countries. Team ...
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