The retail industry in India is one of the fastest-growing in the world and could see a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10 per cent over 2012-2020, growing from US$ 500 million to $1 trillion in that time frame, says a recent report ...
Croatian food establishment Podravka is planning to shut down its Podravka Polska factory in Kostrzyn, Poland, in a move to reduce its operational capacity. Podravka has decided to locate its production operations for the European Union ...
Tags: meat, baby food, sweets, Agriculture
A revolution in the scheduling of meeting rooms and other essential office resources has been unveiled by Smartway2 Limited, the leading developer of cloud-based resource scheduling solutions. Smartway2 has been designed to respond to the ...
The year is drawing to a close but the number of exhibitors signing up for AUSPACK 2015 is still growing. According to Luke Kasprzak, portfolio director – industrial division, exhibition and trade fairs, “AUSPACK 2015 is ...
Tags: exhibition, trade fairs, Packaging
On Cyber Monday, the biggest online shopping day of the year, Amazon revealed its newest generation DC utilizing robotics, cand high-end technology to speed up order delivery times for customers Amazon.com has unveiled its ‘eighth ...
The hog market has been a good place to be in the last year. Live hog prices in the last few months have trended almost $20 a head higher than the same period in 2013. So, what's the outlook heading into winter? Feed supplies remain low, ...
Tags: hog market, Agriculture
Falling retail prices for LED light bulbs have put the LED driver IC market under pressure, according to industry sources. Some LED driver IC suppliers incapable of lowering their manufacturing costs will be forced to leave the market in ...
Tags: LED Driver, LED Bulb Prices, Lights
Retail sales of sporting goods in October increased 1.2 percent seasonally adjusted month-to-month and 3.6 percent unadjusted over 2013, according to an analysis of government data by the National Retail Federation. Overall retail sales ...
Tags: sporting goods
There were 230 entries submitted into this year’s German Packaging Award. NMP Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of KHS, wowed the judges by putting together two of its prototypes. NMP’s Direct Print and Nature MultiPack ...
Tags: German Packaging Award, Packaging
Beumer Group has fundamentally re-engineered its high-capacity layer palletiser, Beumer paletpac. It now provides better accessibility, a shorter assembly period, higher flexibility and, as a result, lower costs. In high-performance lines, ...
Tags: layer palletiser, Packaging
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has released its 16th annual container stevedoring monitoring report. “Increased competition is delivering improvements in Australian stevedoring, which build on significant gains ...
Tags: delivering improvements, logistics
The bill,developed in close consultation with the outdoor industry, U.S. textile sector and Congressional representatives, is projected to lower costs for outdoor industry business, prevent rising retail prices and spur innovation by US ...
MEI Wet Processing Systems and Services LLC (a subsidiary of MEI LLC) of Albany, OR, USA has revealed performance data on its new Cu & TiW Critical Etch System for compound semiconductor manufacturing. MEI says that its Critical Etch ...
Tags: Cu, spray tools, TiW etch
A wholly-owned subsidiary of Bupa Care Homes, Stockport-based SurgiChem is a provider of medication adherence packaging to the UK care home and domiciliary care markets. The company supplies monitored dosage systems to a network of over ...
Tags: SurgiChem, US Firm Omnicell, Packaging
Omnicell has completed the acquisition of UK-based SurgiChem, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bupa Care Homes (CFG), following approval from the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) in the UK. CFG will now be integrated with Omnicell's ...
Tags: Omnicell, Acquisition, Packaging