The citizens of Berkeley in California have voted for additional tax on sugar-sweetened beverages, becoming the first city in the US to okay such a move. Berkeley voted 75.12% to 24.88% for a penny-per-ounce tax on sugar-sweetened ...
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The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf has introduced a lineup of festive holiday beverages, just in time for the holiday season. The highly-anticipated beverages available in participating locations nationwide include Toffee Nut Latte and Ice ...
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Pleasant Kids, America's premier supplier of naturally balanced alkaline spring water and all natural apple juice for children, announced plans to launch its all natural apple juice. The market date is scheduled for December 15th, just in ...
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Lassonde Industries posted sales of $315m in the third quarter of 2014, a 22.3% increase year over year. Profit attributable to the Company's shareholders for this period totalled $10.6m, down $0.6m from the third quarter of 2013. "Our ...
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Mondelez International is planning to invest $50m to ramp up production of Tassimo beverage capsule in its coffee factory in Banbury, UK. The investment, which will be used in the construction of two new production lines at the ...
South Australia's family-owned brewery, Coopers, said it experienced ongoing growth during the 2013-14 financial year with record sales and turnover figures. Its profits, however, dropped by 9.1%. Coopers is now the largest ...
Sonoco has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Weidenhammer Packaging Group, Europe's leading provider of composite cans along with composite drums and rigid plastic containers, for AU$443 million, in cash. [The final consideration is ...
AC Simmonds - a company focused on acquiring businesses for expansion and development in sectors like international food, oil and gas, mold remediation, waste management, renewable energy, leisure and the entertainment industry - has ...
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Irish producer of alcoholic beverages C&C Group has reported 2.7% slump in operating profits to €69.2m during the six months ending August. The company said that its earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation fell ...
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The company has also recently recieved a place in the CDP Global Climate Performance Leadership Index 2014, and has been named the global industry leader amongst beverage companies in the 2014 Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI). This ...
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India-based Parksons Packaging will be adding two additional Rapida 106 sheetfed offset presses manufactured by Koenig and Bauer (KBA) to their facilities to increase production capacity. Apart from the two current orders, Parksons has ...
Just in time for the cooler weather and the upcoming holiday season, leading juice innovator Old Orchard Brands introduces a new line of limited-edition fruit juice cocktails that celebrate the iconic flavors of fall. Apple Pie, Caramel ...
US-based wines and spirits distributor M.S. Walker has expanded Grand Macnish range of Scotch whiskeys with the introduction of new Grand Macnish Black Edition. Additionally, the company has launched two new 80 proof Irish whiskeys ...
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Over half of UK consumers believe energy drinks are bad for ier health, but sales of the drinks are reaching record levels anyway, according to global market research organisation Canadean. Canadean said that to secure the success of this ...
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This growing demand for packaging is met by the automation packaging which helps speeding up the process of packaging of goods. As the demand for packaging increases the, demand for automated packaging also increases. Increasing ...