TricorBraun packaging firm has acquired Taipak, a flexible packaging provider based in Canada – its first foray into flexible packaging in its 100-year history.
Across the consumer goods industry, the future depends on manufacturers taking control of both quality and product safety issues, says Eagle product inspection.
UK chocolate firm Thorntons has posted sales declines in the second quarter and has no other option but to follow major supermarkets downmarket, according to an analyst.
Slow sales in February and March and planned store closures hit sales at Thorntons in its third financial quarter (Q3), the confectionery firm reported in a trading statement.
Chocolaterie de Bourgogne, a new company formed from Barry Callebaut’s sale of its last consumer goods factory, speaks exclusively to ConfectioneryNews.com about the firm’s inauguration, its priorities for 2013 and a recent bomb threat at its factory.
New global guidelines on packaging sustainability will help companies reduce their carbon footprint while boosting efficiency and spur more effective communication between players throughout the supply chain, said Unilever’s Nigel Bagley.
Mintel Research Consultancy is launching a packaging innovation
club for businesses involved in the fast moving consumer goods
(FMCG) packaging industry.
UK baker Finsbury Foods has consolidated its leading position
within the cake sector with the £37.5m (€56.6m) acquisition of the
Lightbody Group this week.
Cargill is set to expand its ingredient portfolio for the food
industry, announcing last week that it is to open a
30-million-pounds-per-year glycerin refinery.
