Facts and data

Candia Italia, the Italian subsidiary of Sodiaal, one of France’s leading dairy cooperatives (the third largest European and fifth largest world milk producer), posted sales of 112 million litres of milk in 2018, including 22 million litres under the Candia brand name, 60 million litres under private labels and 30 million litres in the low-price segment.

Ferrero has beaten off a rival bid from the US firm Hostess Brands to acquire Kellogg Company’s iconic cookie, fruit and fruit-flavoured snack, ice cream cone and pie crust businesses.

As the final step in a €5 million issuance programme, TSW Industries (Asti), a company that designs and builds packaging plant and machinery for food (particularly confectionery and chocolate) and other fast-moving consumer goods, has issued €2 million of mini-bonds fully subscribed by the fund Anthilia BIT 3 and listed on the ExtraMotPro trading platform.

US multinational Kraft Heinz is preparing to sell the Italian assets of Plasmon, the well-known brand of baby biscuits produced in the plant in Latina in the Lazio region.

Orsero (Savona, Italy), one of Europe’s largest distributors of fresh fruit and vegetables listed on the Aim Italia segment of the Milan Stock Exchange, has signed a €10 million agreement to acquire Fruttica, a French importer and wholesale distributor of fruit and vegetables, mainly of Italian origin.

IMA Group is continuing its growth, closing 2018 with net revenues of €1,500.4 million, 13.6% up on the €1,320.2 million registered in the year to 31 December 2017.

GIMA TT posted net revenues of €182.9 million in 2018, 20.5% up from the €151.8 million in the year to 31 December 2017.

With the aim of concentrating entirely on its core business of sustainable packaging, the British packaging group DS Smith (LON:SMDS) has decided to shed its plastics division, which operates in the flexible, rigid, foam and injection-moulded packaging segments.

The global aseptic packaging market is expected to grow at a CAGR of more than 9.9% between 2018 and 2024, when it is likely to surpass $70 billion.

The Danone group reported consolidated sales of €24.7 million in 2018.

The subject of this analysis are two specific categories of nutraceuticals, ie enriched foods and supplements, for which we give an in depth analysis of their market positioning and the types of packaging adopted.

Coca Cola HBC has begun the process of acquisition of leading Serbian confectionery company Bambi from Mid Europa Partners.

IFCO, global provider of reusable packaging solutions for fresh foods, today announced that its parent company Brambles has entered into a binding agreement to sell IFCO to Triton and a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), for an enterprise value of US$ 2.51 billion. The transaction is subject to customary regulatory approvals and is expected to be completed…

Respecting the expectations of the organizers of Comexposium, from 26 to 29 November 2018 All4Pack Paris brought together 79,000 operators, including 1,350 exhibitors.

Organized by the Graphic Committee of Como, the conference “Circular Economy, sustainability and future of packaging” was held on 13 November at the Unindustria headquarters.

The positive trend of the national packaging sector also confirmed for 2018, in line with a trend that persists since 2014. Average prices of raw materials and production.

Quarterly observatory of the packaging supply chain: situation in December 2018. Consolidated data and development assumptions in the two-year period 2019-20.

With a turnover of 2018 close to 7.7 billion euros, the industrial sector belonging to Ucima (Union of Italian Manufacturers of Automatic Packaging and Wrapping Machines) confirms its international leadership.

Waste recycling is confirmed as a true Italian excellence and even in 2017 it shows growth in almost all sectors. The Report by the Foundation for Sustainable Development and by FISE Unicircular.

After +8.7% in 2017, the turnover of the sector under Acimga grows by 10% and, today, based on the preliminary results released by the Association, is worth 3 billion euros.