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Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics Supports Japanese Quantitative Study of Plastic Waste
Dec 25, 2017Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics (P&SP) is lending its support to the first quantitative study for the reduction of plastic waste in Japan. Dow will provide financial assistance to study the impact of plastic waste and debris on the ...
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Apple Marks World AIDS Day with Boost for Bono Charity
Dec 26, 2016The gadget giant is expanding its partnership with Red, an HIV/AIDS advocacy organization founded by U2 singer Bono. "Of course corporations should have values, because people should have values," CEO Tim Cook said in an interview with ...
Tags: Apple, World AIDS Day, Red
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Shell Announces Senior Staff and Organisational Changes in North America
Sep 28, 2016Royal Dutch Shell (Shell) today announced that after a 34-year career with the company, Unconventional Resources Director and U.S. Country Chair, Marvin Odum, will leave Shell at the end of March, 2016. Concurrent with Marvin’s ...
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Cerveza Mixers Launches El Hombre Beer Mixer
Sep 13, 2016Cerveza Mixers has introduced its inaugural product El Hombre, a premium beer mixer based on the centuries old Michelada. Founded by Liz Ngo, a former tech executive, Cerveza Mixers was created to ignite the global beer market by ...
Tags: Cerveza Mixers, El Hombre, beer mixer
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Nominations Now Open for 2016 TAGIE Awards
Aug 25, 2016Finalists for this year's Toy & Game Inventor of the Year awards will be announced on September 15th, 2016. Nominations are now open for the 2016 Toy & Game Inventor of the Year Awards. The event, held during Chicago Toy & Game Week, ...
Tags: Toy&Game Inventor, TAGIE Award, CHITAG
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Customer Advocates — It All Starts at Face to Face
Aug 12, 2016Remember the party days of your youth? You came in with your friends, made a beeline for a place in all the craziness, and somehow through the mass of people, loud music, and roar of conversations you saw a face across the room. It was ...
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Bicycle Suppliers Endorse New Mechanics Association
Jun 27, 2016The Bicycle Product Suppliers Association (BPSA) has endorsed the Professional Bicycle Mechanics Association, a new organization based in Austin, Texas Austin, Texas dedicated to the promotion and development of - and advocacy for ...
Tags: BPSA, bicycle shops, riding experience
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ACCC Takes Heinz to Court Over Nutritional Claims
Jun 23, 2016The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has initiated legal proceedings against Heinz over nutritional claims made on its Little Kids Shredz infant food range. Little Shredz have been sold in major Australian ...
Tags: young children, Shreadz products
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Australian Egg Industry to Bring in Over $750 Million in Revenue 2015-16, New Ibisworld Data Released ©
Jun 21, 2016New data from IBISWorld shows the Australian egg farming industry is expected to generate AUD $759.6 million in revenue in 2015-16. According to IBISWorld, in the five years leading up to 2015-16, Australia’s free range egg ...
Tags: egg, farming industry, cage egg
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Different Food Industry Responses to Free Range Egg Farms Misleading Claim Fine
Apr 19, 2016Responses to last week’s Australian Federal Court’s decision to impose a $300, 000 penalty on Free Range Egg Farms (FREF) has attracted a strong reaction in food industry and food compliance circles. In a decision handed down ...
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Southeastern Grocers Fast-Tracks Cage-Free Egg Policy
Apr 19, 2016Southeastern Grocers, parent company to BI-LO, Winn-Dixie and Harveys stores, has committed to converting 100% of its private label eggs to cage-free during 2017, and targeting the expansion of that commitment to the remainder of eggs sold ...
Tags: Southeastern Grocers, BI-LO, Winne-Dixie, Harveys stores, cage-free policy
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CHOICE Continues Free-Range Egg Fight with New App
Apr 15, 2016Australian consumer advocacy group CHOICE is launching a free app to help shoppers identify different types of free range eggs. The group is launching the app after Consumer Affairs Ministers’ decided to allow producers to call eggs ...
Tags: CHOICE, APP, Free range eggs
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Planet Fitness Appoints New Key Management
Apr 11, 2016Planet Fitness Inc. has hired new executives in key operations, real estate and finance positions, including Jim Esposito as SVP of corporate club operations, Brian Zehetner as director of health and fitness, Josh Beyer as VP of real ...
Tags: Planet Fitness, New Key Management
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Peak Bodies to Merge
Apr 11, 2016Paul Zalai. On the 30th of March, 2016, at their Annual General Meeting, members of the Australian Peak Shippers Association (APSA) agreed unanimously to merge with Freight & Trade Alliance (FTA), Australia’s leading body for ...
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Bacardi Initiates A ‘No-Straw´ Movement To Reduce Waste
Mar 28, 2016In celebration of World Water Day, Bacardi has launched an in-house initiative to remove straws and stirrers in cocktails at company events. Starting in its North America regional headquarters office in Coral Gables, Fla., and its Bombay ...