Australia
Orange juice consumption in fourth year of decline
Over 1.5 million fewer Australians are drinking packaged fruit juice in an average week compared with just four years ago, analysis by Roy Morgan Research has revealed.
Archives for November 24, 2014
Coffee silverskin beverages have weight management potential: Study
Beverages made with with coffee silverskin - a major by-product of the coffee roasting process - have potential in weight management, Spanish research suggests.
LiquiGlide: Consumers switch brands for packaging that isn’t ‘sticky’
LiquiGlide has surveyed more than 1,000 consumers to ask about their attitudes towards packaging, use, waste and disposal of sticky consumer goods (including foods like ketchup and mayo).
Sales of loose and bagged tea up 5.9% in 2013, hitting $1.8 billion, ABC report finds
Sales of herbal and other teas increased by 5.9% in the United States in 2013, capping off a decade of solid growth, according to a market report by the American Botanical Council. It was ABC’s first such report on the tea sector.
Huhtamaki to sell its Films business for €141m
Huhtamaki has entered into an agreement to sell its Films business to DBAG Fund VI, a fund advised by German private equity company Deutsche Beteiligungs (DBAG), expected to be finalized in late 2014 or early 2015.
BREAKING NEWS: Onex to acquire SIG Combibloc Group for $4.66bn
Onex Corporation (Onex) has agreed to buy SIG Combibloc Group (SIG) for €3.75bn ($4.66bn), with the transaction expected to close in the first quarter of 2015.
Sidel: ‘To lightweight or not to lightweight’
Lightweighting bottles are not always the best option when it comes to manufacturing packaging for different countries according to Sidel.
ChaiElixir CEO: We’re a sparkling chai tea beverage; there is really nothing like this on the market
If you don’t like taking risks, don’t go into the beverage industry, says the founder of ChaiElixir, an Oklahoma City based start-up selling sparkling tea. “A significant portion of new products do not make it past year one or two, but that’s the nature...