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WeChat joins Starbucks with gifting and mobile payment platform
Starbucks has partnered Chinese online and app giant Tencent Holdings to create a new social gifting feature on WeChat, China’s leading mobile social communications service.
Archives for December 13, 2016
AB InBev sells SABMiller’s central and eastern European business to Asahi
Anheuser-Busch InBev has agreed to sell the former SABMiller businesses in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania to Asahi for €7.3bn ($7.75bn).
Ball to close US beverage packaging plant
Ball Corporation will close its Reidsville, North Carolina, beverage packaging plant next year.
Federal court shoots down slack-filled container allegations against Muscle Milk
Muscle Milk has dismissed allegations in a New York federal court that it was intentionally underfilling its protein powder products by 30% in non-transparent containers.
GreenSpace Brands takes sip from organic juice market with takeover of Nothing But Nature
GreenSpace Brands has announced the purchase of Canadian organic juice maker Nothing But Nature for the “total consideration of approximately $8.88m and $9.88m.”
Microalgae looks to sustainably grow into beverage space with funding from Food4Future
The future is looking bright for microalgae in the beverage space as Algatechnolgies (Algatech), manufacturer of non-GMO astaxanthin, was chosen as the sole algae player of the pan-European Food4Future initiative.
Norwegian food industry agrees to aid government in promoting healthy food
A coalition of major food industry bodies have made a pact with the Norwegian government to help improve public health by reducing high fat, sugary and salty foods (HFFS).