Consumer packaging group Silgan Holdings has revised its earnings estimates for the year due to lower volumes for metal food containers. The US-based supplier of rigid consumer goods packaging also announced that it has extended the ...
Tags: rigid consumer, goods packaging, expiration date, metal food containers
European glass container molds manufacturer Omco Group will use Nikon’s LC50Cx digital line scanner to digitize customers' bottle designs, reducing the lead-time from receipt of order to delivery of the finished moulds. The LC50Cx ...
Tags: Bottle Design, Nikon Scanner, Omco, Packaging
Canadian Plastics Industry Association (CPIA) has released a new report which indicates that the amount of post-consumer plastic recycled in Canada has increased in 2011. According to the report in total, more than 268.5 million kilograms ...
Tags: CPIA, new report, plastic recycled, post-consumer, recycling
During their development, adhesives have gained a strong position in more and more production processes. There is hardly any product in our surroundings that does not contain at least one adhesive - be it the label on a beverage bottle, the ...
Tags: adhesives, emerging countries, report, vinyls
From a sustainability standpoint, 2012 might be characterised as a year when the world went backwards - or at a pinch stayed still - but the food industry moved forward. There are plenty of campaigners who would beg to differ on the ...
Tags: CSR, Industry, Agriculture Food
There were, despite continued economic uncertainty in many Western markets and concerns over slowing growth in the East, signs that M&A activity rebounded in the food sector this year. Data for the whole of 2012 has not yet been published ...
Tags: European M&A advisors, food sector, Food
At the closing ceremony of the International Apparel Federation (IAF) World Apparel Convention held this year in Oporto, Portugal, IAF Secretary General Han Bekke announced that the next convention will be held in Nanjing, China on 23 ...
Tags: International Apparel Federation, IAF, Global Fashion Supply Chain
It's the time of the year when we look back at the 12 months just past to see what was getting you clicking on just-food. The ten most-read news stories of 2012 include UK grocers signing a code of conduct on promos and Tesco announcing it ...
Centric Software, Inc. has received the Frost & Sullivan 2012 Global Product Differentiation Excellence Award in Retail, Fashion and Apparel Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). The global research organization of 1,800 analysts and ...
Tags: Centric Software, bags, retail, fashion
Sunrise Technologies is pleased to announce a new Microsoft Dynamics AX customer, Gonzales Enterprises in Chico, CA. Fifth Sun is a privately owned design and distribution company of licensed and private label apparel to major retailers ...
Tags: Fifth Sun, private label apparel, Microsoft Dynamics AX, ERP solution
Centric Software Inc. is introducing its branded implementation methodology for the Centric 8 product lifecycle management (PLM) system for the apparel, footwear, luxury goods and consumer goods markets. The Agile Deployment (SM) ...
Tags: implementation methodology, PLM system, Centric Software
Tally Weijl has selected Centric Software, Inc., for its product lifecycle management (PLM) system. Tally Weijl will implement the Centric 8 PLM system to manage the entire product development and sourcing process for all of its apparel, ...
Centric Software, Inc., will offer a Software Developer’s Kit (SDK) for its mobile product lifecycle management (PLM) apps. “The Centric 8 Mobile App SDK enables companies to benefit from the leading work Centric is doing in ...
Tags: Centric Software, SDK, PLM apps, mobile technology
Visual 2000 International Inc. and Datec Retail Systems, Inc. have formed a technology and marketing alliance that will enable the companies to integrate and jointly distribute the Visual 2000 End-2-End and Datec Point-of-Sale (POS) fashion ...
Tags: fashion solution, technology and marketing alliance, Datec POS system
John Rishton, the former chief executive of Dutch retailer Ahold, is set to take a seat on Unilever's boards of directors, the consumer goods giant said today (17 December). Rishton, who was Ahold boss between 2007 and 2011, will be put ...
Tags: John Rishton, Dutch retailer Ahold, Food