Gap Inc. announced that its Board of Directors intends to increase the company’s annual dividend to $0.88 in fiscal year 2014, a 10 percent increase from the company’s current annualized rate of $0.80. This represents more than ...
Acrylic resins, manufactured by the polymerization of acrylates or methacrylates, find use in several applications ranging from paints and coatings to automotive and construction. Demand for acrylic resins is dependent on the health of the ...
Tags: Acrylic Resins, coating, Paints, Plastics, Adhesives
Aceto Corporation, a US global leader in the marketing, sale and distribution of products for human health, pharmaceutical ingredients and performance chemicals, has announced that it acquired Inter'actifs, a French distributor of ...
Tags: Light Industry, Daily Use
US-based Berry Plastics has received permit from the competent approval authority in China to acquire controlling interest of Qingdao P&B. The pending registration, associated with the transaction, with the local company registry would be ...
Tags: Berry Plastics, Packaging
Despite tough economic conditions, revenues for the world's 250 largest retailers reached $4.3 trillion in the last fiscal year (June 2012 through June 2013). The average size of the top 250 retailers exceeded $17 billion according to the ...
Tags: Retail Economy, Service
Against a background of millions of pounds worth of process and packaging equipment being tied up in companies today, and recent research that suggests around 5% of these assets are lying idle at any time, it is perhaps not surprising that ...
Researchers say they have pinpointed a preservative found in many popular wet wipes and baby wipes as the cause of allergic skin reactions in some children. Reports of reactions have ranged from disfiguring patches to crusting, swelling, ...
Tags: Baby Wipes, Preservative, Rashes
The 2014 International CES officially has its winner for best booth innovation, with Panasonic offering a full salon service?to first-day crowds at the Las Vegas show. The innovative display at the heart of the Panasonic stand is there to ...
Tags: Panasonic, CES, Haircut, CES with New Technology
The 2013 SCS Formulate was held at the Coventry Ricoh Arena on the 12-13 November. It proved to be another excellent event for formulators across the UK and beyond, offering a wide variety of new ingredients and technology to benefit the ...
Tags: SCS, personal care
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
American Eagle Outfitters, Inc. announced that Chad Kessler has been appointed EVP, Chief Merchandising and Design Officer for the American Eagle Outfitters brand, reporting to CEO, Robert Hanson. Chad begins in his new role on February 3, ...
Tags: American Eagle, Chad Kessler, appointment, retail apparel
Finland-based label materials provider UPM Raflatac has partnered with Unilever to reduce the environmental impacts of packaging labels across their lifecycle. Under the partnership, the companies have developed lifecycle assessment (LCA) ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Packaging Labels
Kraton Performance Polymers is set to exhibit its new styrenic block copolymers (SBC) compounds at EuroMold 2013, to be held from December 3-6, 2013 in Frankfurt, Germany. According to the company, the SBC-based compounds are soft, ...
British-Dutch multinational company Unilever has sold its Skippy business in China to US-based Hormel Foods. Skippy peanut butter brand was introduced in 1932 and its portfolio comprises 11 varieties of peanut butter products. It is a ...
Tags: Unilever, Skippy Peanut Butter, sold, Hormel Foods
Taking place on 26-27 November at the Centro Congressi Milanofiori (opposite NH Milanofiori Hotel), Making Cosmetics is all set for its first event in Milan. With 670 visitors already pre-registered (excluding exhibitors), the signs are ...