British clothing and food retailer Marks & Spencer has opened its first store in Beijing, located in the CBD area. Costas Antimissaris, International Director of the retailer, says their strategy is to focus on big cities. "Our strategy ...
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Consumers are looking for resealable packaging that keeps their fresh produce even fresher, according to a report by Mintel. The Mintel report, called Locavore: Attitudes toward Locally-sourced Foods, concluded that consumers wanted fresh ...
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Plastic film supplier Rani Plast is planning to install a new Davis-Standard line with blown film die, which will enable the company to produce both high barrier agriculture films and non barrier conventional PE-based films. Scheduled for ...
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Australian ASX-listed fast food chain Domino’s Pizza has announced it is acquiring Germany’s largest pizza chain Joey’s Pizza. Following the October purchase of Western French chain Pizza Sprint, increasing the presence ...
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Australian supermarkets giants have confirmed they source seafood from a company implicated in the usage of indentured slave labourers for prawn peeling. Coles, Woolworths and Aldi supermarkets have each confirmed that they have sourced ...
Fonterra has sold its Australian yoghurt and dairy dessert business to Parmalat Australia for an undisclosed sum. The sale includes Fonterra’s manufacturing facilities in the Tamar Valley (near Launceston) in Tasmania and at Echuca ...
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US-based flexible liquid packaging firm Liqui-Box has expanded its product portfolio with the addition of a new aseptic filler - Aseptipack - for the low volume aseptic liquid packaging market. The new aseptic liquid packaging machine, ...
TriMas Corporation – a diversified global manufacturer of engineered and applied products – announced that Rieke Packaging has opened its global innovation center in Asia. Based outside Delhi, India, this center houses a ...
Atlantic Natural Foods (ANF) has concluded the acquisition of Neat Foods to add to their family of shelf-stable protein-based healthy meat alternatives. Atlantic Natural Foods CEO Kelly Krause said: 'At ANF, we believe that the addition ...
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Ardent Mills, the premier flour-milling and ingredient company, is announcing a new organic initiative committed to helping US wheat growers double organic wheat acres by 2019. Ardent Mills CEO Dan Dye said: "Ardent Mills' vision is to be ...
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With distinctive sales channels, AdvancePierre Foods’ business model is designed to make sure quality goals transcend quantity goals. Today, it's underscoring this commitment to quality and the enrichment of the overall customer ...
Dutch beer company Heineken intends to revamp Carta Blanca, its Mexican beer brand, following the overhaul success of its another Mexican beer brand Tecate. Carta Blanca has a loyal consumer base in north of Mexico, but it has lost its ...
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Instead of a traditional Christmas party, over 160 members of Australia's packaging, processing machinery and supply chain and logistics associations spent a day packing a record 1250 hampers for Foodbank to distribute to those in need. ...
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In some regions, light-emitting diode (LEDs) are expected to comprise more than half of new horticultural luminaire sales as early as 2017, according to the report 'LED Lighting for Horticultural Applications' from market analyst firm ...
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Glastonbury-based Indigo Herbs has rebranded its health and nutrition range while retaining the company’s core commitments of providing affordable, pure organic and raw products. The restructure includes streamlining of over 500 ...
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