Union bosses are seeking urgent meetings with the new owners of Heinz after it was snapped up by a consortium led by US investor Warren Buffett in a shock pound 18bn deal. In the can: Warren Buffet’s consortium has snapped up the ...
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Investment firms Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway and 3G Capital have entered into a definitive merger agreement to acquire American food company HJ Heinz for $28bn in cash, including the assumption of Heinz’s outstanding debt. ...
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American food company Heinz has added new breakfast cereal sachets range to its baby food line in the UK. The range includes two varieties - Creamy Oat Porridge and Sunrise Banana. Designed for toddlers aged four months and above, each ...
About 21 companies in the US have voluntarily lowered salt content in pre-packaged or restaurant foods products, in response to a salt reduction campaign led by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. New York launched the National Salt ...
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BASF now supplies coatings for the mobile crane manufacturer Terex Cranes at its plant in Zweibrücken, Germany. The use of ultra high solids coatings – solventborne coatings with a higher solids content and low volatile organic ...
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Heinz has added to its baby food line in the UK with the launch of a range of breakfast cereal sachets. The dry cereal, designed for babies ages four months plus, is available in two variants: Creamy Oat Porridge and Sunrise Banana. The ...
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Selfridges hit the headlines last month with its ‘No Noise’ packs, which removed wording and logos from familiar and iconic products (see page 3). But can such a strategy be transferred to any pack Bic Bicknell Co-founder, ...
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US-based food company Heinz is all set to launch new pouch format in a bid to innovate its infant food range. The pouches will be available in smooth texture for babies of 4+ months and in mashed texture for 7+ months babies. According to ...
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On January 17th, 2013 at 6 PM BREAD & BUTTER BERLIN closed its doors – for the first time on a Thursday evening; very successfully. After the concept changes, which were broadly discussed upfront, B&B President Karl-Heinz ...
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Heinz has expanded its baby food range with the launch of a Pouches line. Designed with a smooth texture for babies 4-plus months and a mashed texture for babies 7-plus months, the pouches have been developed to help mums wean their ...
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Heinz is adding to its Weight Watchers Squeeze & Stir soup line in the UK with the launch of a sachet range. The "low in fat" Weight Watchers from Heinz Squeeze & Stir sachets contains no artificial colours, flavours, preservatives or ...
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Chemical company BASF has increased cash offer to NOK13.50 per share for Pronova BioPharma, Lysaker, Norway. The company revealed that the offer period expires at 16:30 CET on 18 January 2013 and will not be extended. Increased offer ...
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Glass will be the packaging material of choice for any company wishing to portray their product as an image of luxury, in the next ten years, according to a new report A report from British research firm Visiongain ...
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Ardagh Group, a global leader in glass and metal packaging solutions, today announced that it has made a binding and irrevocable offer and entered into exclusive negotiations with Compagnie de Saint-Gobain to purchase from it the entire ...
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Europe-Lawo console brand Innovason has just wrapped up a successful European seminar tour entitled The origin of sound.Driven by Lawo's Marcel Babazadeh,himself a tonmeister and accomplished classical musician,the aim of the tour was to ...
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