A survey from WePack has revealed that half of UK companies failing to prepare packaging for growth of e-commerce deliveries. The survey found that 49.7% of firms have no plans in place to change the design of their packaging to deal with ...
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The Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi automotive alliance announced that its member companies sold a combined total of 10,608,366 units in the 12 months to 31 December 2017. Growing demand for SUVs, light commercial vehicles and a rising number ...
Canadian packaging company Intertape Polymer has reported a 4.3% increase in its revenue to $210.2m for the second quarter of 2017, compared to $201m for the same period last year. The company's gross profit fell from 25.7% to 22.5% from ...
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Sappi has reported a net profit of $58m for this financial year’s third quarter, compared to $32m for the same period last year. For Q3, its earnings per share stood at $0.11, excluding special items. Sappi had also reduced its debt ...
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Packaging Corporation of America (PKG) has reported sales of $1.6bn for the second quarter of this year, compared to $1.4bn for the same period last year. The company reported a net income of $143m for the period, compared to $115.9m in ...
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UK-based corrugated cardboard maker DS Smith has signed a conditional agreement to acquire a majority stake in US packaging firm Interstate Resources from Merpas for $920m. DS Smith and its US subsidiary DS Smith Holdings have signed the ...
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Packaging Corporation of America has reported first quarter 2017 net income of $117m or $1.24 per share and $1.27 per share excluding special items. First quarter net sales were $1.5 billion in 2017 and $1.4 billion in 2016. Reported ...
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Clearwater Paper Corporation has reported financial results for the first quarter of 2017. The company reported net sales of $437.5 million for the first quarter of 2017, essentially flat with net sales of $437.2 million for the first ...
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FAW Jiefang gets a good start in Q1 with a sales volume of 77,000 units, up by 87% compared with 41,000 units of Q1 2016. The market share is 23.6%, up by 2.5% year on year and up by 4.3% compared with the total sales volume in 2016. This ...
Constantia Flexibles Group, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of flexible packaging products and labels, surpassed annual sales of two billion euros in 2016 , the first time in its history. The company also achieved record ...
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KapStone Paper and Packaging reported preliminary results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2016. As compared to 2015's fourth quarter, results for 2016's fourth quarter: Net sales of $777 million, up $13 million, or 2 ...
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Clearwater Paper reported financial results for the fourth quarter of 2016. The company reported net sales of $425.6 million for the fourth quarter of 2016, down 1.4% compared to net sales of $431.6 million for the fourth quarter of 2015 ...
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Royal Dutch Shell Chief Executive Officer Peter Voser commented: “We continue to make good progress with our strategy; improving our competitive performance, delivering a new wave of production growth, and maturing the next ...
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According to the latest data, the domestic heavy truck market brought a total of about 52,500 sales of various types of vehicles in September this year, which increases 26% compared with 41,800 sales of the same period last year. Sales ...
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International Paper reported third quarter 2016 net earnings attributable to International Paper of $312 million ($0.75 per share) compared with net earnings of $40 million ($0.10 per share) in the second quarter of 2016 and net earnings of ...