Australian horticultural company Costa Group has agreed to acquire Lankester Avocado's orchards and packing operations in Queensland for an undisclosed price. The avocado business owned by the Lankester family cultivates the fruit in a ...
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Heidelberg UK managing director Gerard Heanue has been elected as the new chairman of Picon, the confederation supporting UK printing industry manufacturers and suppliers. He succeeds Robert Flather, managing director of Kolbus UK. ...
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Apetit Group has agreed to divest its seafood business in Finland, Norway and Sweden to Insula for an undisclosed price. The divested seafood segment of Apetit is made up of Apetit Kala fish processing business which salmon and rainbow ...
Intertape Polymer Group (IPG) has completed the previously announced acquisition of Montreal, Canada-based tape manufacturing Canadian Technical Tape (Cantech). The purchase allows IPG to expand its tape manufacturing capabilities not ...
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French food group Danone has signed a binding agreement to sell its US dairy subsidiary, Stonyfield, to Lactalis for $875m. The price of the deal represents 20 times its earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization ...
Unilever intends to enter into a strategic partnership with Zwanenberg Food Group. The partnership pertains that Unilever will sell its meat, sauce and can soup factory in Oss to Zwanenberg Food Group (ZFG) and that ZFG intends to ...
Biesterfeld Plastic has agreed to distribute BASF’s polystyrene in Europe, North Africa and the CIS region. Biesterfeld Plastic will distribute BASF’s polystyrene 158K and the recently commercialised polystyrene 148HQ from ...
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Plastic packaging solutions provider Alpla has agreed to acquire Italian firm Propack for an undisclosed sum. Established in 2002 and based in Ostellato, Propack manufactures high-density polyethylene (HDPE) and polyethylene terephthalate ...
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Here Technologies has entered into a partnership with Increment P, a mapping subsidiary of Pioneer Corporation, with the aim of enabling global mapping solutions for the autonomous driving era. The intent to enter into this partnership ...
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US-based Prinova has agreed to acquire the China and UK premix operations of Israeli-based Lycored. Prinova is a global supplier of ingredients, flavors, blending and contract manufacturing solutions for the food, beverage and nutrition ...
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The National Development and Reform Commission, China's top economic planner, and the State Oceanic Administration (SOA) jointly issued a document entitled "The Vision for Maritime Cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative" on June 20, ...
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Mercedes-Benz, a division of German firm Daimler, is commencing construction work for a new passenger car plant in Russia. “Establishing a passenger car production in Russia is a strategic investment in an important sales market for ...
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Golden West Packaging has acquired four independent Northern California packaging firms and their co-owned sheet feeder plant for an undisclosed sum. The company acquired Heritage Solutions, Capital Corrugated, PackageOne, Packaging ...
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Starting in summer 2017, BMW's new 530e plug-in hybrid will be produced at Magna's contract manufacturing facility in Graz, Austria. As a contract manufacturing partner for two premium electrified vehicles – the BMW 530e and the ...
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Costco has broken ground on a $300m poultry processing plant in the US state of Nebraska. Dubbed the Lincoln Premium Poultry facility, the project which will be built in Fremont is Costco’s first-ever chicken processing plant. ...