Heineken has sold its Mexican packaging business Empaque to Crown Holdings for $1.225bn, in a bid to reduce its net debt by the end of this year. The company said the proceeds from the sale will be used to reach the target of bringing ...
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Lotte Liqor’s first beer, Kloud, burst onto the market with aplomb. “We expect to bring a change in the history of Korea’s beer industry, often reputed as ‘boring,’ with this kind of real beer,” the ...
Tags: Beer Market, Krones, Packaging
While this decline was spread across all three market sectors — light metal packaging, steel drums and similar containers, and other containers (of a capacity exceeding 300 litres — it was most substantial in the light metal ...
Tags: Metal Packaging, Falling Demand
US-based Firestone Walker Brewing will launch its new barrel-aged oatmeal stout known as Velvet Merkin in September this year. Aged in bourbon barrels from Elijah Craig and Woodford Reserve and Rittenhouse Rye whiskey barrels, the 2014 ...
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The beverage packaging industry in North America is expected to touch $26.3bn in 2015, according to an assessment by PMMI, the association for packaging and processing technologies. According to the report "Beverage Packaging -- An ...
Meira, a Finland-based food establishment, is packing its new ketchup, mustard and salad dressing bottles with Herma’s 362M labeling system. Herma's 362M labeling system has a special centering device which can exactly position the ...
Beverage alcohol producer Diageo is under the scanner of the Independent Complaints Panel for breaching marketing rules by featuring a colourful design on their promotional countertop unit. The Northampton Borough Licensing Team said in ...
Tags: Diageo, Breaching Marketing Code, Packaging
As a membership warehouse club, everything we sell at Costco has to be of better value than our competitors in the marketplace,” Costco MD Patrick Noone told the audience at a Packaging Council of Australia Industry Leaders Forum in ...
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Devin bottled waters are sold on the promise of purity due to their source, the Rhodhope mountains in Bulgaria - an ecologically clean environment. The mineral water is obtained by drilling 700 metres beneath the earth’s surface. ...
Recycling is great when it works. To make it work, recyclable glass has to be separated from all the other material that ends up in recycling bins. In the UK, glass manufacturer, Ardagh, has just signed a fifteen year agreement with ...
Agr International is taking its latest products for quality management and process control for the packaging industry to Pack Expo. Why should you pay attention? Because standing still is not an option for producers, converters and ...
Coca-Cola Amatil is not only one of the biggest beverage companies in this market, but its move into blowfill production now makes it a significant packaging player in the Australasian region, with the sustainability commitment to match. ...
Ardagh has three glass manufacturing plants in Yorkshire, and is partnering Reuse to increase the volume of cullet, which has so far boosted recycling for clear glass by 12%. West Yorkshire based Reuse is one of the UK’s leading ...
Tags: clear glass, Ardagh Glass, Recycling Push, Packaging
Constellation Brands' beer division has recalled select packages of its Corona Extra beer from US retail stores on suspicion that they contain pieces of glass. The company noted that the recall covers 12-ounce clear bottles in select ...
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US-based McCormick & Company has announced a voluntary recall of certain bottles of Ground Oregano. Testing by the Food and Drug Administration revealed that McCormick Ground Oregano 0.75 oz. bottles may contain Salmonella. The bottles ...
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