Personal care products company Unilever has chosen packaging solutions provider Payne's Rippatape by for a new men's grooming multipack offer in Chile. The tape is being used on 20,000 promotional 'Total Protection' cardboard gift boxes, ...
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About 12 European food and beverage manufacturers and retailers have made a commitment to harmonize nutrition labelling and information across all markets in the European Union (EU). As a part of this initiative, the companies plan to ...
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Private equity firms Blackstone and BC Partners are planning to submit a revised offer for frozen food company Iglo, after Permira rejected their earlier EUR2.5bn bid as too low. Blackstone and BC Partners, which are the last remaining ...
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Private equity firms Blackstone and BC Partners are set to submit a joint bid for frozen food company Iglo, in a deal which is expected to value the company at $3bn, including debt. The two firms, which were earlier competing with each ...
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Phoenix Industries, a plastics products maker in Sri Lanka has laid the foundation stone for a new LKR350m ($3m) plant in Horana, which will supply the packaging needs of the fast moving consumer goods company Unilever's Sri Lanka unit. ...
UK-based general insurer Liverpool Victoria (LV=) has appointed Wendy Mayall as its new chief investment officer. In her new role, Mayall will be responsible for all elements of the company's investment strategy. She will provide advice ...
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Unilever is planning to sell Skippy peanut butter brand, as part of its efforts to cut down some of the food assets in order to focus on health and beauty business. The sale of the brand is likely to fetch anywhere between $300m to $400m, ...
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UK-based private equity firm Permira has hired banks to provide additional debt for its frozen food company Iglo,which owns the Birds Eye brand. Credit Suisse,HSBC,Nomura and UBS will be managing the Iglo transaction,under which€250m ...
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Linkx Systems has collaborated with Unilever Foods UK to develop a new cook-in sauce packer and overhaul, refurbish a volumetric filling machine that had been in storage at Unilever. The new packer for cook-in sauce sachets, which ...
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Private equity firm Permira has cancelled its plans to both refinance and sell the frozen food company Iglo. Permira had planned a dividend recapitalization with Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank and was expecting to raise ...
RFM,a leading food and beverage firm based in the Philippines,has entered into an agreement to sell its canned meat business,Swift brand,to a subsidiary of Century Canning for about PHP850m($20.49m). In a disclosure to the Philippine ...
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UK-based Linkx Systems has developed compact robotic palletiser system to reduce costs at the Unilever Bestfoods plant in Norwich. Unilever Bestfoods approached Linkx to provide automatic palletizing for random packs of cook-in sauces ...
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UK-based consumer products maker Unilever has teamed up with US-based environmental research company Earth911 to check if it is economically viable to recycle deodorant packaging. The aim of the project, with supporting partners Next life ...
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Consumer products manufacturing company Unilever is all set to develop pyrolysis technology to make it capable to recover fuel from the laminate sachet packaging which is being used for an increasing number of products. According to ...
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Unilever, a consumer goods manufacturer, has come up with a new set of challenges, which seeks answers from the world's innovation community to help the business deliver on its sustainable growth agenda. The company's challenges ranged ...