Coca-Cola HBC has invested €7m to upgrade to its bottling plant in Timisoara, Romania. The high-speed bottling line, compatible with 330ml and 500ml formats, will enable the company to reach a capacity of 90,000 bottles an hour. ...
Tags: Coca-Cola, soft-drinks
NatureSweet Tomatoes announced seasoned financial executive Bo Meissner as its new chief financial officer. "Bo brings a depth of experience to his role as leader of our financial team," said NatureSweet CEO and President Bryant Ambelang. ...
Singapore food and beverage company Fraser and Neave has expressed interest in acquiring South Africa's SABMiller's Peroni and Grolsch beer brands in Europe. The expression of interest is occurring whilst beverage giant Anheuser-Busch ...
Schweppes Australia has launched a new water enhancement product in Australia, Lqd+. Lqd+ allows for consumers to add sugar-free colour and flavouring into water. It currently comes in three flavours; tropical, berry and lemon. Up to 24 ...
Tags: Schweppes Australia, Lqd+, drink product
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
Sidel, a global provider of liquid packaging solutions, has announced that it was awarded a major project in Ikeja, Nigeria, by the Nigerian Bottling Company, a member of the Coca-Cola HBC, one of the world’s largest bottlers of ...
Tags: Sidel, Coca-Cola Contracts
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has agreed to sell its nutritional drinks brands – the iconic Lucozade and Ribena – to the Japanese consumer goods firm Suntory Beverage & Food (SBF) for £1.35bn in cash. GlaxoSmithKline is to sell ...
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High-end colour management and proofing software developer GMG has appointed Will Hearn as its sales executive responsible for the southern region. Hearn began working within the graphics supplies sector over 20 years ago. Innovia Films ...
The video, a spoof of Coca-Cola adverts featuring youngsters drinking the beverage, while seabirds fall to the ground dying, has been released by Greenpeace. Greenpeace’s beef with Coca-Cola Amatil stems from Coke’s decision ...
Tags: Greenpeace, Packaging
The Federal Court, last month, ruled in favour of the beverage company after it argued the Northern Territory government’s 10c deposit recycling scheme – introduced in January 2012 and similar to a scheme that has been running ...
UK firm Dairy Crest has announced it is reorganising its business to focus on "consumer-driven growth" and to build an "integrated" supply chain. The move reflects the increasingly "more focused" and "less complex" nature of Dairy Crest's ...
Australian bottler and distributor of Coca-Cola soft drinks, Coca-Cola Amatil has recalled five drinks suspecting glass fragments in the bottles. The affected products are 330ml clear glass bottles of Schweppes lemonade, tonic water, ...
Tags: glass fragment, bottler, glass fragments
Coke has been joined by Schweppes, Lion Nathan, and the Australian Food and Grocery Council in the Federal Court trying to stop the NT scheme. “Coca Cola is now notorious in Australia for being the driving force behind misleading ...
Tags: Coca Cola, Schweppes, Lion Nathan
•In total, some 42 designers will present their collections on the catwalk, to which we must also add the 20 up-and-coming designers taking part in the EGO Showroom at CIBELESPACIO, featuring direct sale to the general public ...
Tags: Spanish flavour, Fashion, fashion shows
Danone is to cut EUR200m (US$261m) in costs from its European operations in a bid to "win back its competitive edge" in the region after falling sales. The French food giant said it would "adapt" its management structure in Europe and ...
Tags: Danone, costs, European operations