It’s been a summer of patriotism, not least for the nation’s packs. But with the Olympics following hot on the heels of the Jubilee, Simon Creasey considers if the Union Jack always the answer How times have changed. When the ...
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A string of retail giants have announced that shoppers can bring back thin plastic packaging such as bread bags for recycling at their stores as a result of an agreement with the On Pack Recycling Label (OPRL) scheme The On-Pack Recycling ...
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Active Honey has signed a deal with merchandising and licensing agent Space Enterprises in order to launch ‘The Hive’ branded honey in the UK. The Hive is a honey bee based animated series for pre-schoolers. With the licensing ...
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Helicap is a new carton closure that is a one-step twist, resealable cap, according to Tetra Pak. It is currently available in the UK with the Tetra Pak Brik Aseptic one litre Slim Carton. The Rubicon one litre juice drink range will be ...
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Vion has finalised a deal for an MBO of its UK pork arm, which is among a series of assets in the country the Dutch food group is looking to sell. The company today (13 December) confirmed UK private-equity firm Endless would back a ...
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UK retailer Morrisons today (13 December) announced it would promote Trevor Strain to replace Richard Pennycook as finance director. Strain, who has worked in senior financial roles at Morrisons for three years, will succeed Pennycook, ...
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EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio — August 14, 2012 — (NYSE:GE) — Food City (Abingdon, Va.) operates 104 supermarket outlets in the tri-state regions of Southeast Kentucky, Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee. Fed up with the ...
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Dutch food manufacturing giant Vion has agreed a management buyout of its UK pork operations, safeguarding about 4,000 jobs. The new venture, backed by private equity firm Endless, will be led by Seamus Carr, md of Vion’s Pork ...
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More than half of shoppers change their meal plans according to which products are on promotion at supermarkets, claims new research published by the grocery think-tank IGD’s ShopperVista team. Better-off families and young ...
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Divine Chocolate, a Ghana-based manufacturer of Fairtrade chocolate products, has introduced new products to its Easter range. The new additions in the range include chocolate chickens & eggs and chocolate bees with a honeycomb crunch, ...
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Talks between Woolworths and Australia's competition watchdog over the creation of a streamlined acquisition process have collapsed with the retailer arguing it should apply to all industry participants. A statement by the Australian ...
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A new study by Consumer group Which has revealed that biscuits taste better if they are in fancy packaging. The research found that packs of cookies were scored higher by the testers who saw them before eating compared to those who tasted ...
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Sane Jen Industrial Co.,Ltd.,founded in 1984,specialized in developing and producing wire folding containers,wire folding trolleys,wire decking,wire shelves,wire stacking frames,steel tube,steel plate and so on.The products made of ...
One of the UK’s largest own-label cake and pastry manufacturers has been snapped up by a private equity firm in GBP 23.5M management buy-in deal (MBI). McCambridge's cake division bakes one in 10 of every retail pre-packed ...
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ROUGHLY two decades ago,during an earlier Internet start-up boom,many entrepreneurs and fast-typing coders and engineers set up shop in a still-gritty area of this city:South of Market Street. The young tech crowd rented—and ...
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