Portland’s Transportation, Sustainability and Energy Committee has voted in favor of a proposal that would require retailers to charge shoppers with 5-cent fee on every single use of plastic or paper bags at grocery stores. The fee ...
Tags: Plastic Bag, charging fee
MeadWestvaco (MWV), a global packaging company has introduced SmartFare, a new package for chilled ready meals (CRM). The new SmartFare packages are said to transform the CRM tray into a brandable experience, as well as increase brand ...
Tags: Chilled Ready Meals, Package
Samuel Adams announced it will host small business Speed Coaching in San Francisco on Monday, May 19th as part of Samuel Adams Brewing the American Dream, a micro-lending and coaching program for small business owners working in food, ...
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Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) is set to open a new sweetener and soluble-fiber manufacturing facility at the port of Tianjin in North China – the company’s first wholly-owned food ingredient production facility in China. ...
Tags: Food Ingredients Facility, ADM
The packaging of food items is one of the key concerns for Europeans, according to an independent research commissioned by FEVE (The European Container Glass Federation). The research was carried out by an independent research agency, ...
Tags: Food Packaging, food items
Product packaging plays an important role in enhancing consumers’ skincare experience, according to a new ‘Skincare Research & Insights Study’ by MeadWestvaco (MWV). The study, which involved 23 ethnographies and 16 ...
Beer distributor economic activity is on the uptick across the state of Florida. Today, Goldring Gulf Distributing broke ground on a new facility in Milton, Florida. S.R. Perrott will open a new facility in Daytona in June and ...
Tags: Beer Industry, Cone Distributing
Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated, the nation’s largest independent Coca-Cola bottler, announced it has signed a definitive agreement with The Coca-Cola Company to expand the bottler’s franchise territory to include the ...
Tags: Coca-Cola Bottling, Coca-Cola
As the world’s No1 Food & Beverage industry trade organizer, SIAL Group is supporting your growth worldwide. Developed since 1964 in PARIS, world capital of gastronomy, SIAL has become a global brand for agri-food players ...
Tags: Footprints
TreeHouse Foods (THS) today reported first quarter earnings of $0.38 per fully diluted share compared to $0.62 per fully diluted share reported for the first quarter of last year. The Company reported that adjusted earnings per share ...
MGP Ingredients reported results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2014. Net income was $4.7 million, or $0.26 per diluted share, compared to net income of $1.4 million, or $0.08 per diluted share, in the first quarter of the prior ...
US-based agricultural processing firm Sunwin Stevia International has begun production of enzyme treated stevia products at its facilities. The company also has received an initial purchase order for 3,500kg from a US-based undisclosed ...
Tags: enzyme, beverage applications
Highlander Partners, L.P., a Dallas-based investment firm, announces the sale of its portfolio company, SensoryEffects, to Balchem Corporation, a publicly-traded human and animal health and wellness company. The purchase price was $567 ...
Tags: Food Ingredient, Sensoryeffects
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 10, completed nearly 100 environmental compliance and enforcement actions in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington from July 1, 2013 through December 31, 2013. Violations of environmental ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, EPA, Certification
A major survey of more than 1,600 firms has found that the high value of the Australian dollar, difficulties in obtaining finance and a lack of information about overseas markets remain major barriers to expanded international operations. ...
Tags: Australian dollar