The Vietnam Trade Office in the US will seek to persuade leading US retailer Walmart to source goods, including apparel, from Vietnam in 2014, Vietnam Industry & Trade Information Center said on its website Asem Connect. Vietnam is ...
Rainbow Foods, a subsidiary of the supermarket chain Roundy's, will launch a new nutritional labeling program, health key, for shelf tags at its stores in the US. The company is expecetd to label the shelf tags with information regarding ...
Tags: Rainbow Foods, Food Labeling
North American labor rights groups welcomed a landmark agreement, announced, to deliver an estimated $40 million in compensation to the families of those killed in the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh and called on Walmart, ...
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John Lewis has announced plans to open a 45,000 sq ft at home store in Horsham as early as autumn 2015. The shop, adjoining Waitrose in the new West End development owned by Westrock and the British Airways Pension Fund, will be the third ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
Australian wholesale grocery distributor Metcash Limited (Metcash) has announced it will split its Food and Grocery pillar into two divisions, each led by a separate CEO. The move will see the convenience channel separated from the ...
Tags: supermarket, management
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has accepted undertakings from both Coles and Woolworths supermarket groups that they will each voluntarily cease making fuel saving offers that are wholly or partially funded by any ...
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The flexible packaging market is estimated to be worth $351bn by 2018, meaning that it is rapidly gaining market share from other sectors such as traditional rigid packaging. There have been many exciting new product developments which ...
The way in which consumers view and interact with packaged products is changing. With a growing focus on convenience and sustainability, traditional pack types are being replaced by innovative and flexible options designed to meet these ...
Fashion Institute of Technology's (FIT) students have introduced the new Project Carton, which was created in the college's packaging design program for a competition sponsored by Evergreen Packaging. Project Carton is an exhibit of ...
Tags: Evergreen, Sustainable Packaging
The Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal has made its first road safety remuneration order (RSRO). The agency says the RSRO comes after extensive consultation with interested stakeholders in the road transport industry over the past 12 months. ...
Tags: transportation, safe rates, RSRO
The new supermarket trend has taken shopping to next level. Now people get to shop fresh in fully air conditioned outlets. These kinds of retail shops have deeply impacted our lifestyle. All these are one stop destination for cost effective ...
Recent research in the American Marketing Association's Journal of Marketing Research finds that, as the environment becomes more socially crowded, consumers show an increased preference for products with safety connotations. A crowded ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Consumer Packaging
Snack products maker Whitworths has selected FFP Packaging Solutions to provide flexible packaging film designs for its breakfast range that consists of 30 new products. FFP produced 13 film designs using its Platinum Print flexographic ...
Tags: Packaging Films, Breakfast Range
Weighing scales are basically the measuring instruments that can be used in order to determine particular weight or mass of any object. Being a measuring instrument, it is logically utilized in many commercial industries along with ...
Tags: Industrial Scale, Instruments, Meters, Scale
Consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies are underestimating the e-commerce channel's growth potential and consequently may be missing out on a substantial market opportunity, according to the first of a two part Deloitte study, "Digital ...
Tags: e-commerce, online shoppers, consumers