Amcor's profit before interest and tax for the three months to 30
September has risen by a more than healthy 47 per cent. The company
said that the increase was due to ongoing improvements in the
European flexibles business,...
Bunge has announced that it has completed its previously announced
acquisition of an approximately 55 per cent controlling stake in
Cereol, a leading oilseed processor and unit of Edison, for €449.2
million cash.
Leading Brands said this week it has entered into three new
co-packing agreements with Ocean Spray International, a North
American provider of cranberry juice and other beverage products.
US packaging provider Plastipak Packaging has announced the
addition of two strategic locations to supply the rigid container
market with liquid food, carbonated soft drink, water and non-food
containers.
Caraustar Industries has announced that the waiting period under
the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act relating to the
company's previously announced acquisition of the industrial
packaging operations of Smurfit-Stone...
Tetra Pak Hungaria, the Hungarian subsidiary of the Swedish
packaging producer, will turn out 1.55 billion containers this
year, up from 1.40 billion last year, CEO Thomas Kormendi said in a
report from Hungarian publication MTI Econews.
Europe's leading food retail chain Carrefour has surprised even
itself with the publication of first half results which were much
better than expected.
Ball's recently announced agreed offer for Schmalbach-Lubeca sets
the seal on the consolidation of an important segment of the
European packaging industry that will give the company crucial
increased worldwide leverage.
The Tuna Canners Association of the Philippines is urging the
United States to reassess its trade law and create a level playing
field for tuna product imports, according to a report on Fis.com.
Coca-Cola and its bottlers in Mexico have taken a legal battle over
their marketing and sales practices to the country's federal
courts, hoping to overturn a ruling earlier this year from
regulators.
Shares of Mexico's Pepsi-Gemex rose sharply on after US-based Pepsi
Bottling Group has confirmed that a deal has been reached to buy
Mexico's main Pepsi products bottler.
Cascades has signed an agreement with Brodrene Hartmann to sell all
of its retail egg carton activities in Canada and the USA, allowing
the Danish company to become the second largest supplier of
moulded-fibre egg cartons in North...
Baldwin Richardson Foods, one of the largest African-American owned
food companies in the United States, has won a multi-million euro
contract to supply Kellogg's Nutri-grain fruit fillings, which
comes on the back of a big investment...
Graham Packaging Company, a worldwide provider of customised
blow-moulded plastic containers, has unveiled a state-of-the-art
manufacturing plant located on site with a new filling facility
operated by the Danone Group in Aldaia,...
New Dragon Asia, the Hong Kong based food processor, has reported a
5 per cent increase in profits and a 7 per cent decrease in total
sales for its first quarter of 2002.
American Italian Pasta Company has begun renovations to produce
pasta at an existing food plant previously occupied by Borden Foods
in Tolleson, Arizona - according to a report by Industrialinfo.com.
Graham Packaging Holdings, a US-based international manufacturer of
blow-moulded plastic containers for the food and beverage
industries has reported that unit sales increased 11 per cent in
the first quarter of 2002, compared to...
Amcor, the fast-growing Australian packaging group, has confirmed
that it is to buy most of the assets of Schmalbach-Lubeca, its
German rival, in a $1.56 billion (€1.7bn) deal that will more than
double its sales, making it one of...
Coca-Cola Enterprises, the world's biggest bottler of Coke, is
switching to a box that stacks six rows two cans deep, with the
idea that a longer box will fit better in refrigerators.