Posted by Rick Lingle,Technical Editor--Packaging Digest,12/19/2012 4:26:01 PM Canadian Plastics Industry Association(CPIA)released a new report that the amount of post-consumer plastic recycled in Canada has increased in 2011.An ...
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In November, the consumer price index (CPI) went up by 2.0 percent year-on-year. The prices grew by 2.1 percent in cities and 1.9 percent in rural areas. The food prices went up by 3.0 percent, while the non-food prices increased by 1.6 ...
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The first of its kind, the inaugural L2′s Digital IQ Index: Fragrance report benchmarks the digital competence of global fragrance brands, looking at 350 data points across four dimensions: Site, Digital Marketing, Social Media, and ...
News of the acquisition comes just a month after BWAY Corporation was bought by private equity house Platinum Equity – which also owns Contego Packaging in the UK. In a statement, Louis Samson, a partner at Platinum Equity, said ...
Tags: Linpac, North American Business Ropak, BWAY Corporation, Louis Samson
Consumer goods giant Unilever is looking at how it can optimise its global operations using SAP’s HANA in-memory database. The company has been consolidating its SAP systems over the past 20 years and now runs 4 regional systems. ...
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Global consumer packaging group Rexam has concluded the previously announced sale of its High Barrier food container business to a Silgan Holdings’ subsidiary for $250m. The food container business of Rexam provides thermoformed ...
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Economy (i) Economic Development of Guangxi In recent years, Guangxi’s economy has maintained a rapid, steady and balanced development momentum. In 2005, GDP exceeded 400 billion yuan , 407.575 billion yuan to be exact, up by ...
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(i) GDP Data Henan, a big economic province in China, produced a total GDP of 1,053.52 billion yuan in 2005, which makes Henan Province the 5th province whose overall volume exceeds a trillion yuan. The structure of the three industries ...
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(i)GDP In 2005, The GDP of Hebei province reached 1,009.61 billion yuan, of which the primary, secondary and tertiary industries were RMB 150.31 billion yuan,RMB 523.25 billion yuan and RMB 336.05 billion yuan respectively and per capita ...
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François-Henri Pinault. Photo credit: InDigital Media Group Last week I attended an event led by François-Henri Pinault, chairman and CEO of PPR, an international holdings company that operates brands in the luxury, ...
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Tesco chief executive Philip Clarke has revealed plans of an online marketing strategy that it hopes will improve the use of personalised Clubcard data. Speaking at the Global Summit of the Consumer Goods Forum 2012 in Istanbul on Friday ...
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Economy (i) GDP Through rough calculation, the GDP of Hainan province in 2005 is 90.36 billion RMB. Converted by the present rate of exchange, the GDP per capita of Hainan is about 1,357 US dollar. Sketch Map on GDP Growth Rate of ...
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US-based UFP Technologies is set to introduce its new molded fiber (pulp) packaging solutions. The 100% recyclable fiber is made solely of newspaper and water. Molded fiber has been recognized as the egg-carton material and is considered ...
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Economy (i)GDP Data The overall GDP value in 2005 was RMB 194.2 billion: RMB 35.92 billion from the primary industry, RMB 82.28 billion from the secondary industry, RMB 76.0 billion from the tertiary industry. The proportions of its ...
Tags: Guizhou Province, survey, economy, investment
UK consumer goods group Reckitt Benckiser has recorded an increase in profits from its foods division in the first half of the year. In the six months to the end of June, the owner of French's mustard brand booked a 6.1% increase in ...
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