PPG Industries has completed its previously announced acquisition of Cuming Microwave Corporation based in Avon, Massachusetts, and its wholly-owned subsidiary Cuming-Lehman Chambers, Inc., based in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Financial ...
Tags: Specialty Coatings, PPG, Specialty Materials, paint pigment, coating
Flavors company McCormick has agreed to acquire One World Foods, Stubb's barbeque sauces supplier, for $100m. Based in Austin, Texas, One World Foods produces and sells marinades, rubs and skillet sauces, in addition to Stubb's barbeque ...
Tags: McCormick, delicious sauces, Stubb's barbeque sauces, food manufacture
DS Smith is expanding its market share in Spain after agreeing to buy Spanish company Grupo Lantero's corrugated products business. The recyclable corrugated packaging provider said the €190 million purchase, including assumed debt, ...
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US apparel retailer Kate Spade & Company has named Emilia Fabricant as president of the North America region effective June 29, 2015. “In this role, Fabricant will oversee the Company's North America business, with responsibilities ...
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While increased offshoring of manufacturing might be hurting the packaging supply chain, there is still “enormous potential growth in the packaging sector both sides of the Tasman”. This is the view of Greg Chapman, managing ...
Italian chocolate producer Ferrero has agreed to acquire Thorntons, in a cross-border deal that values the British chocolate maker at around $177.7m. Ferrero will make the transaction through its subsidiary Ferholding, which has been ...
Competition in the gaming notebook segment is surely to become keener in the second half of 2015 as notebook brands including Acer, Asustek Computer, Dell, Gigabyte Technology and Micro-Star International (MSI) together are expected to ...
Tags: Gaming Notebook, Tablet Notebook
Austria-based plastic packaging firm Greiner Packaging has grabbed 51% majority stake in Teknik Plastik and Teknik IML, both of them from the Ozata Group, capturing the market for rigid plastic packaging for dairy products in Turkey. ...
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Italian packaging applications firm Marchesini Group has purchased some technologies of Bologna-based Multipack specializing in end-of-line packaging systems for pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and foodstuff. Marchesini, which has been using ...
Opus Group has signed a binding agreement to sell 100% of Opus Equipment to MECA Scandinavia , a subsidiary of Mekonomen Group. The sale streamlines Opus Group's operations focusing on being a leading global vehicle inspection company. ...
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MM Packaging is an Austrian coated recycled cartonboard firm with a growing position in virgin fiber based board and a major European manufacturer of folding cartons. Based in France, Ileos designs and manufactures plastic, metal and ...
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Australian-based Beston Global Food Company has revealed it has acquired milk producer United Dairy Power from the receivers. The South Australian based United Dairy Power which was an aggregator of milk suppliers across Victoria and ...
Tags: Dairy Power, milk
Richard Eden, senior analyst (Power Semiconductors) at market research firm IHS Technology, attended the recent PCIM (Power Conversion Intelligent Motion) Europe 2015 tradeshow in Nuremberg, Germany (19-21 May), and in a Research Note has ...
Tags: GaN SiC, Power electronics
Swedish chicken producer Scandi Standard has agreed to acquire Lagerbergs in a SEK105m ($12.7m) deal. The company has signed an agreement to this effect which is subject to Swedish competition authority approval. Said to be the third ...
US global supplier of paints PPG Industries has inked a pact with specialty powder and liquid coatings manufacturer IVC Industrial Coatings for its acquisition in a bid to expand its market and boost supply positions. Indiana-based IVC, ...