American branded food giant Hormel Foods has purchased Italian meats company Fontanini Italian Meats and Sausages from Capitol Wholesale Meats for $425m. Based in Chicago, Fontanini is a branded foodservice business which was established ...
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Based in Everett, the Funko HQ store boasts all maner of licensed goods from plush toys and collectables to handbags and backpacks. Funko has opened the doors to its first retail store, located in Wetmore Avenue in Everett, US. The ...
ZeroCater has introduced a fully-customizable solution for office snacking, ZeroCater Snacks and Kitchens, which makes it easy for companies to provide their employees with the snacks they love. Until now, managing office snacks meant ...
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Packaging products supplier Crown Holdings has achieved one of its sustainability goals by decreasing energy consumption by 5.3% per billion standard units. In 2016, the company announced that it will reduce energy consumption by 5% per ...
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American food giant Tyson Foods will invest $84m to expand its poultry plant in Tennessee, a move that will double its output capabilities and create over 300 jobs. The expansion project in Union City in Obion County which will begin this ...
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Flagship Food Group is expanding its manufacturing and distribution facilities further in the Albuquerque region, creating a 76,000ft2 frozen food distribution warehouse to serve customers from coast to coast from a single point of ...
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Trelleborg Sealing Solutions is showcasing its new sealing solutions for beverage and liquid food industries at the upcoming Drinktec 2017, to be held in September. At the expo, which will be held in Munich, Germany, the company will ...
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Luna Innovations Inc of Roanoke, VA, USA (which makes high-speed optoelectronics and fiber-optic test products for the telecoms industry and distributed fiber-optic sensing for the aerospace & defense and automotive industries) has agreed ...
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Ivory Coast’s flexible packaging firm Socipack has installed a suite of Comexi printing and converting equipment as both the firms expand their partnership. Socipack installed Comexi F2 MB flexographic press, Comexi Dual laminator ...
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Green packaging and tissue products producer Cascades will shut down its packaging facility in Maspeth, New York, US. The company has decided to close Maspeth packaging plant, as part of its efforts to modernize and optimize operations in ...
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Dold Foods, the Hormel Foods' manufacturing plant in Wichita, Kansas, revealed its plans to add a 156,000 square-foot expansion to its location. The planned expansion will be to add more production lines for the Hormel Foods bacon items ...
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Ardagh Group, Glass – North America, a division of Ardagh Group, has opened a new Napa office to better service its Ardagh Direct customers. In January, Ardagh Group launched its Ardagh Direct program to provide wineries of all ...
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US-based packaging and equipment solutions provider Volm Companies has opened its new 90000ft2 distribution facility in Pasco, Washington. The new distribution center is situated at 5702 Industrial Way in Pasco, which is close to the old ...
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Co-founder of Kids Industries Gary Pope talks the transition of TV advertising to digital. 65 years ago, the first TV ad for toys aired in the US: 45 seconds of advertising history that led to the sale of 100m Mr and Mrs Potato Heads. ...
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Midland Regional Printers will install Easymatrix to increase its die-cutting capacity at its Nottingham facility in the UK. The die-cutter is a 7,700 sph machine which can handle stocks of 90 to 2,000gsm (and corrugated up to 4mm ...