Archives for April 26, 2018

Gumipod enters VOOM 2018 to pitch to Virgin boss Richard Branson

Entrepreneur, Duval Middleton, who founded Gumipod, gum packaging with integrated bin, has applied to enter VOOM 2018, to pitch his idea to Virgin boss Richard Branson and a panel of business superstars on May 21.

Executives on the move

Pladis hires former PepsiCo exec to build ‘commercial powerhouse’

Pladis has appointed Dmitry Ivanov (Dima) to its newly created global position of chief commercial officer.

Financial results

Cloetta posts Q1 sales growth driven by packaged branded business

Cloetta has posted total net sales of SEK 1.56bn ($182m) in Q1 2018, increasing by 27.8% from SEK 340m ($40m) during the same period of 2017.