Packaging

  • Candia Italia posts positive 2018 results driven by the lactose-free segment

    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.
  • Lancashire Farm Dairies opens new production plant in Rochdale

    UK-based dairy company Lancashire Farm Dairies, a company specialising in the production of 100% British milk yogurt, has opened a new 6,500 square-metre facility in Rochdale, Greater Manchester which will double the amount of milk the dairy can process.
  • Danone Ventures invests in premium coconut water

    Danone Manifesto Ventures (Danone group) has acquired a stake in Harmless Harvest, a US firm that sells fresh and organic coconut water produced using an exclusive microfiltration process.
  • Grupo Alimentario Citrus continues its expansion in Europe

    GAC - Grupo Alimentario Citrus, a Spanish agri-food company operating in the field of fresh produce, has acquired Florette Italia (Novara) and the Swiss company Josef Müller (Canton of Zug), both specialising in ready-prepared salads.
  • TSW Industries issues a further €2 million of mini-bonds

    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.
  • Heineken makes $100 million investment in Mozambique

    Heineken has officially opened its first brewery in Mozambique in a ceremony attended by the country’s President Filipe Nyusi. The facility will produce the new Txilar brand beer using locally grown maize as well as other international brands such as Heineken, Amstel, Sagres and Strongbow.
  • Illy Group acquires British truffle maker Prestat

    Illy Group, an international brand operating in the food and beverage sector, has diversified into the premium chocolate segment with the acquisition of the well-known British brand Prestat, inventor of truffles and supplier to the British royal family.
  • Orsero strengthens its position in France with the acquisition of Fruttica

    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.
  • DS Smith to divest plastics division

    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.

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