Scottish potato crisp firm Mackie's at Taypack is set to open a new manufacturing facility in Errol with support from Clydesdale Bank. The new facility, which is 60% larger than the company's current unit at Moncur, Perthshire, will ...
Tags: potato crisp, Agriculture
Interface Food & Drink (IFD) has granted £75,000 to fund three collaborative projects between Scottish food and drink companies and Scottish universities to accelerate research and innovation in Scotland’s food and drink ...
Tags: Food&Drink, Agriculture
Resource minister Lord de Mauley has visited Continuum Recycling – the plastic bottle recycling joint venture between Eco Plastics and Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) – to mark the completion of the plant’s first full year in ...
The online retailers at Simple Lighting co. have shared their thoughts on the news that the £13.8 million programme in Leicester, to replace all sodium street lights with energy efficient lamps has reached its 1,000th upgrade. It ...
Tags: Simple Lighting, LED Street Lamps
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 team from North Devon-based Atlas comprises managing director Jason Sharman, regional sales manager James Pearce, head of structural design Dave King and structural engineer Laura Furnifer. The Samworth Brothers Charity Challenge, now ...
IT services firm Atos has opened a new development and innovation centre in Moray, Scotland, which it says will create 50 "high value" jobs, with a further 200 to follow. The 20,000 sq.ft. centre, based in the Forres Enterprise Park, is ...
Tags: Atos, IT services, Computer Products
NatWest, a member of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group (RBS), has funded new machinery for Derbyshire packaging company Custompak. Custompak managing director John Baldwin said, "Like many small businesses, it's been an uphill struggle but ...
Tags: Natwest Funds, Packaging Machinery
Computer giant Oracle is setting up a data centre "in the Thames Valley" in order to retain and capture government cloud computing business. The data centre is Oracle's second in the UK after Linlithgow in Scotland, which it picked up ...
Tags: Oracle, Cloud Data, Computer Products
The Scottish government has announced that the country is set to drive ahead with plans to convert to greener street lighting, putting in a proposal for Green Investment Bank (GIB) funding. Being the first of its kind in the whole world, ...
Tags: outdoor lighting, lighting, Scotland
Independent retailer, Toy Hub has initiated a new system to help kids work out their mental arithmetic and drive its own sales forwards. The toy shop, based in Dunblane, Scotland, has made the decision to drop the .99 price point and ...
Posted by Lisa McTigue Pierce, Executive Editor -- Packaging Digest, 5/10/2013 12:04:02 AM The Royal Wine Corp. needed to increase its bottle packaging line speed to keep up with booming demand for its wines, spirits and liqueurs. The ...
Tags: Case Packing, Packing
Glasgow-based design agency Good has created new brand identity for Ian MacLeod Distillers-owned Tamdhu single malt whisky. The new packaging, which has been designed to increase shelf impact, communicates the values of the brand with a ...
Tags: Packaging, Scotch Whisky
Street lights in front of Castlegate in Aberdeen, Scotland. Every street light in Scotland could be fitted with low-energy LED bulbs as part of ambitious plans to cut CO2 emissions, ministers said on Thursday. The Scottish government ...
Tags: LED bulbs, LED street light, LED
Scotland-based branding design agency threebrand has created new packaging design for Ola Dubh 1991 craft beer by Harviestoun Brewery. The agency created packaging that reflected the core Ola Dubh brand and also considered the ethos of ...
Tags: Packaging Design, Craft Beer