Facts and data

Opened in November 2019, “Hive” is the € 85 million hub that will lead the Dutch Unilever’s global food innovation programmes for brands like Knorr, Hellmann’s, The Vegetarian Butcher and Calvé.

Thomas Rosolia, President of KPE Koeln Parma Exhibitions - JV Koelnmesse GmbH and Fiere di Parma - confirmed the full success of the recent edition of Cibus Tec (22-25 October 2019) for the number of visitors (over 40 thousand, of which 25% from abroad), quality and number of exhibitors (1300, with 400 foreign brands) and occupied exhibition space (120 thousand m2).

In 2019, turnover slightly down: a drop in exports is offset by the stability of the internal market.

13 March 2020. Messe Düsseldorf GmbH has postponed the two world leading trade fairs respectively focussed on processing & packaging and print technologies.

Barilla is preparing to make a €130 million investment in Russia for the construction of a new production site and the first durum wheat mill in Eastern Europe.

JBS USA, the American subsidiary of Brazilian meat giant JBS SA, has acquired Empire Packing for US $238 million.

The Chairman of the Italian Automatic Packaging Machinery Manufacturers’ Association has sent a letter to all Italian and international customers.

Ferrero International, the parent company of the Ferrero confectionery group, approved the consolidated financial statements for the year ended 31 August 2019 with a turnover of €11.4 billion (+6.2% compared to the previous year).

Ilpra, an SME operating in the packaging sector with a wide range of machines and technological solutions for the packaging of food, cosmetics and medical products, has acquired the business unit of Unimec S.r.l., a company 100% controlled by Ilpra Group S.r.l., which in turn is owned by the current majority shareholders of Ilpra Spa.

In 2019, Mondelēz International posted a turnover of $25.8 billion (+4.1% on the previous year) and a net profit of $3.87 billion.

The data from the NOMISMA survey on trends in purchasing and sustainable consumption, was previewed in Milan in preparation for "Packaging Speaks Green" the international forum on sustainability of industrial manufacturing due to be held in Bologna on 20 and 21 February at the Eataly World venue. 

The sixth edition of the Osservatorio Immagino Nielsen GS1 Italy, based on data for the year ended June 2019, confirmed some of the nutritional trends already reported the previous year but also revealed a number of new developments.

British packaging company DS Smith has opened a new state-of-the-art corrugated packaging manufacturing plant in Lebanon, Indiana (USA).

Based on the first available evaluations, the packaging sector (closely linked to the trend of manufacturing activity) should register a turnover for 2019 of +1%, reaching over € 33.5 billion.
Foreign trade is still on the up: although down compared to 2018, the value of exports is expected to grow by approximately 2.3%. Still in terms of  value, imports are up by around 5%. Despite the drop…

Four-monthly observatory of the packaging chain: situation at the beginning of December 2019. First results of the year and growth anticipations.

Nestlé has announced plans to invest $700 million in the modernisation of its 17 factories in Mexico.

A tripartite agreement was signed recently between the governor of the Samarkand region, the US company GMFR Global Group and the Chinese holding company Beijing Huiyuan for the development of industrial projects in Uzbekistan.

 

Following the acquisition by CVC Capital Partners, announced in July 2019 and completed on 2 January this year, Bosch Packaging Technology has changed its name to Syntegon while maintaining its headquarters at Waiblingen, Germany and its status as an independent company.

Market data, environmental policies and technological trends seen at Labelexpo. This and more at the annual Gipea conference, which also this year registered a high turnout of associated labeling companies. Cristina Rossi

On 26 November, Finnish-Swedish company Stora Enso specialising in packaging solutions and innovative and sustainable cellulose-based biomaterials signed a strategic collaboration with HS Manufacturing Group (HSMG), a producer of plant-based barrier coatings.