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Carmen Carulli (Purchasing Director) and Stefania Fabiano (General Manager of the ACTIVE COSMETICS Division) offer us two specific points of view, telling us about the state of the art and the planned moves, between supply chain strategy, product marketing, packaging and sustainability. M. Costanza Candi, Luciana Guidotti.

The French group has said it will suspend investment in the country but continues to manufacture and distribute products locally

Hall 18, Stand D/54 – E/41 | Innovation, technology and creativity are the basis of the Naturelle Collection for a long-lasting and natural makeup.

Numerous food groups have been forced to temporarily suspend their production activities in Ukraine amid the escalating conflict with Russia.

Hall 20, Stand D/53 - E/54 | Skincare and Makeup come together in Storylook, creating the same amazement you feel when you read a magical fantasy story.

Hall 18, Stand D/36 - E/21 | Clean formulas, functional active ingredients and sustainable packaging for a safe and innovative make-up.

The study conducted by the University of Trento looks at the results of the historic pasta maker’s new paper packaging. One of the findings is that long pasta has a smaller environmental footprint than short pasta.

The Italian company has acquired French organic chocolate maker Saveurs & Nature. The operation is highly promising given the companies’ shared values and complementary products.

Nestlé has made its first investment in Italy as part of the CHF 250 million venture capital fund allocated by the group to accelerate the transition to sustainable packaging globally.

Following the introduction of PepsiCo Positive, the company’s strategic end-to-end transformation with sustainability at the centre, PepsiCo Europe has recently announced that by 2030, it plans to eliminate virgin fossil-based plastic in all its crisp and chip bags.

The Alba-based multinational is expanding the production lines at its Villers-Écalles site where a quarter of the world’s Nutella is made.

Green supply chain strategies and circularity for a dairy product where quality is intertwined with ethics. 

The company plans to reopen its second plant in the Piedmont region and transform it into a sustainability hub.

The Bestack Consortium has been appointed a member of the EU Platform on Food Losses and Food Waste for 2022-2026 set up by the European Commission in 2016 to support achievement of the sustainable development goals set out in the UN’s 2030 Agenda (Goal 12).

The Unilever factory in Pozzilli, in the province of Isernia, is at the centre of a major multi-year industrial conversion project that will transform the facility into one of the most advanced recycled plastic production sites in Europe and the only one in Southern Italy capable of recovering mixed plastic material from post-consumer waste which would otherwise be sent to waste-to-energy plants and cement factories.

The beverage alcohol group Diageo, owner of Johnnie Walker and Singleton Scotch whiskies, has begun construction of its first malt whisky distillery in China.

Despite the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and supply chain bottlenecks in a number of key markets, the multinational drink and brewing company AB InBev reported third quarter revenue growth of 7.9% with respect to the same period in 2020 and a more than 10% increase compared to 2019.

The combined expertise of HASI and Aliplast has enabled the Granarolo Group to achieve better than expected results in industrial waste management in accordance with the principles of the circular economy.

Granarolo is forging ahead with its external growth strategy as part of its 2021-2025 five-year business plan.

A leader in the Italian mineral water and soft drinks sector, Sanpellegrino is well on course to achieve the environmental targets set out in its latest Sustainability Report 2021 concerning the efficiency of production systems, logistics and the use of sustainable packaging.