The decision by the Federal Court of Australia to order Coles Supermarkets Australia Pty Ltd (Coles) to pay penalties of $2.5 million for making a claim that its par baked products were “fresh”, is likely to have broad ...
Tags: bakery products, bakery
Tetra Pak is rating its past year a success, with higher recycling rates, lower CO2 emissions and commercialisation of the world’s first 100% bio-based carton achieved. Tetra Pak has continued to make progress towards its 2020 ...
Tags: Tetra Pak, Initiatives Reward, Packaging
Lessons for food marketers as sugar consumption in UK tumbles As the health debate surrounding sugar continues, food marketers are reviewing their product formulation and marketing strategies. Nearly half (46 per cent) of UK ...
Tags: baked-goods, bakery, Food
Who are the world’s biggest polluters? A report by non-profit environmental and social responsibility organisation, As You Sow, and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), examined the packaging practices of forty-seven fast ...
Tags: plastic packaging, packaging
A report from the nonprofit organisation, As You Sow and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), reveals that while there is a rise in the use of plastic packaging across the US market to meet the needs of fast food and consumer ...
Tags: plastic PET bottles, Agriculture
Just before Christmas, NSW Premier, Mike Baird, and the Environment Minister, Rob Stokes, wrote to the National Packaging Covenant Industry Association (NPCIA)’s chairman, Grant Musgrove, and Coca-Cola Amatil managing director, Barry ...
Tags: packaging waste litter, recycling, Packaging
Swedish food packaging and processing company Tetra Pak has launched a new Environmental Benchmarking Service to help food and beverage companies assess the environmental performance of their production operations. The service helps in ...
FoodLegal presents ‘NZ Supplemented Foods’ for the Australian market: Opportunity and Regulatory Risks Things are changing for food and drink companies and for pharma products. Those with businesses in either dietary ...
Tags: TGA criteria, ARTG, Agriculture
The company has also recently recieved a place in the CDP Global Climate Performance Leadership Index 2014, and has been named the global industry leader amongst beverage companies in the 2014 Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI). This ...
Tags: Coca-Cola Bottler, Packaging
PET to PET recycling Austria has invested about 2.3m on the upgrade of its Austrian plant based in Müllendorf to meet the increasing processing demand. A bottle-to-bottle PET recycling operation, the company is backed by Coca-Cola ...
Tags: PET to PET, Facility Upgrade, Printing
The UK food and beverage industry leads in having energy management goals planned for the next five years, with 64% considering to increase their investment in the next 12 months. Approximately 70% of the food and beverage companies ...
Tags: Beverage, Energy Management Measures, beverage industry
Coca-Cola Amatil is not only one of the biggest beverage companies in this market, but its move into blowfill production now makes it a significant packaging player in the Australasian region, with the sustainability commitment to match. ...
The packaged food, drink and grocery product manufacturers in New South Wales, Australia, are set to launch a new program to increase the recycling of bottles and plastic drink containers in the state. The program, which will see the ...
Tags: Manufacturers, Recycling Program, Packaging
US-based food processing company Archer-Daniels-Midland (ADM) has acquired Swiss flavor manufacturer Wild Flavors, the Switzerland-based producer of natural ingredients, in a deal worth EUR2.3bn. ADM will pay €2.2bn to acquire WILD ...
Tags: ADM, Wild Flavors, Food
Sweet Green Fields (SGF), the leading US science-based, natural sweetener innovator, announced the creation of Natrose natural flavor. With approval from the Flavor and Extract Manufacturers Association (FEMA), food and beverage companies ...
Tags: Sweet Green, Natural Flavor