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Lighter cans for Coca-Cola products
Coca-Cola Hungary reduced the weight of aluminium drink cans by 13 percent. Starting in 2020, the company uses 170 tons less aluminium per year for making cans in Hungary –...
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Nestlé invests in recycled and sustainable packaging solutions
Nestlé is investing approximately CHF 2 billion in switching from new to food-industry- quality recycled plastic use, at the same time speeding up the process of developing innovative sustainable packaging...
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Eco-friendly bags for bakery items in Interspar stores
Since December 2019 multi-use plastic bags have been available for bakery items too in Interspar hypermarkets. The bags come in two sizes, a bigger one for bread and a smaller...
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Smart diet 2030
Market research company Mintel says the food and drink trends of the next decade will be shaped by directions that take into consideration the health of both humanity and planet...
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Nestlé joins forces with Canadian plant-based ingredient maker
Nestlé has teamed up with small Canadian plant-based food ingredient makers Burcon and Merit Functional Foods. Nestlé will buy pea and canola proteins from a 20,000 tons/year Merit plant, which...
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Eco-friendly in colours too
Eco-friendly paint manufacturer IFS Coatings launched its latest colour portfolio in January. The new colour groups are called Green Guilt, Imaginative Reaction, Robotic Reality and Actual Authenticity. CEO Glynn Mason...
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Gruppo Bennet buys Interspar hypermarket in Crema
Italian retailer Gruppo Bennet has strengthened its presence in Crema – in Northern Italy – with the acquisition of an Interspar hypermarket and shopping centre. The purchase is part of...
Read moreChina’s inflation is at its an almost nine years peak
Inflation in China rose to an almost nine-year high in January as a result of rising demand due to the Lunar New Year holiday and the coronary epidemic that hit...
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Migros–Too Good To Go partnership goes nationwide
Swiss retailer Migros has announced it is extending its partnership with Too Good To Go to all regions of Switzerland. This programme seeks to reduce food waste by offering ‘magic bags’...
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Belgian Delhaize stores sell carbon-neutral bananas
Belgian retailer Delhaize has introduced ‘100-percent carbon neutral’ bananas to its product selection. The retailer said that due to reduction and compensation measures along the supply chain, from planting to delivery,...
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Carrefour enters the subscription economy
French supermarket chain Carrefour has expanded further into online groceries by acquiring a subscription box company. Potager City sells fruit and vegetable boxes to customers in 350 towns in France....
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Pen, paper, coffee
US stationery and office supplies retailer Staples ordered 1,145 coffee displays, with which they ensured the attention raising presence of Keurig coffees in 90 percent of the chain’s stores. They...
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Aldi pays higher salaries and recruits 3,800 new workers in the UK
The British arm of German discount supermarket Aldi will recruit more than 3,800 store level positions this year and increase salaries, as part of its plans to hire the best...
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Co-op UK went meat-free in January
Co-op has revealed a new meat-free range just in time for the vegan January (Veganuary). They realised their biggest launch of vegan products with new brand Gro. Made up by...
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Debenhams closes 19 stores
In early January Debenhams revealed the locations of the 19 stores which were shut in the United Kingdom in the same month, resulting in 660 job losses. The department store...
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New retail holiday debuted in January
In the USA the third Saturday in every January – which was on 18 January this year – will be the ‘National Use Your Gift Card Day’ at participating retailers...
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Lidl removes cartoon characters from private label breakfast cereal packaging
Lidl has announced that from spring 2020 it will stop displaying cartoon characters on its private label cereal ranges in the UK, in order to help parents tackle pester power...
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Asda offers one-hour click- and-collect service
Asda has launched a new click-and-collect service that makes it possible for shoppers to pick up their online orders in less than an hour. With Express Click and Collect, shoppers...
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Lactogal: Bio-based packaging for Mimosa milk
Portuguese dairy company Lactogal has introduced Mimosa low fat, skimmed, and whole milk in bio-based packaging in Portugal and Spain. The milk is available in new Tetra Brik Aseptic Edge...
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LDC and Luckin Coffee are to build a coffee roasting plant
Dutch agricultural commodity merchant Louis Dreyfus Company and Chinese coffee firm Luckin Coffee have started building a joint coffee roasting plant in Xiamen, China. The plant – which is located...
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Soups from Waitrose & Partners tell you to ‘Love Your Gut’
British retailer Waitrose & Partners has launched a new range of private label, gut-friendly soups called ‘Love Your Gut’. The range has been developed by nutritionists and offers two SKUs – carrot,...
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Lidl to open another distribution centre in the USA
Lidl is expanding in the south of the USA. The discount grocer announced it will build a USD 100 million regional distribution centre in Covington, Georgia. The 86,000m² facility will...
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ISM: 50 years of sweets
ISM is the biggest annual trade fair for sweets and snacks in the world, which has been organised for 50 years. In 2020 Cologne hosted the event between 2 and...
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Coca-Cola buys dairy product company fairlife LLC
The Coca-Cola Company has announced that it has acquired a 100-percent stake in fairlife LLC, a Chicago-based manufacturer of value-added dairy products. Fairlife LLC started operations in 2012 with a high-protein milkshake,...
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Gruppo Selex invests 330 million euros in its stores in 2020
Italian retailer Gruppo Selex is going to invest EUR 330 million in opening new stores and remodelling existing supermarkets in the country next year. This budget will be used to...
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The 2020 Grüne Woche broke many records
Internationale Grüne Woche took place in Berlin between 17 and 26 January 2020. This year’s trade fair broke many records: on 129,000m² more than 1,800 exhibitors from72 countries showcased their...
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Amazon India enters into partnership with Future Retail
Amazon India is now an official sales channel of Future Retail stores, enabling the latter to reach a wider customer base. Future Retail currently has 1,500 stores, attracting over 350...
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Rema 1000 and Vallø Castle join forces
Norway’s Rema 1000 has announced a partnership with Vallø Castle for sourcing fresh organic eggs. The initiative is part of the retailer’s ’ground-to-table’ strategy that concentrates on offering special, locally produced...
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Lidl launches Ireland’s first 100-percent compostable bag for potatoes
Lidl Ireland has introduced the first fully compostable potato bag in the country, in cooperation with Meade Potato Company. The 2kg packs of Meade White Potatoes feature packaging made from...
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A top feeling
In 2020 economic growth was around 5 percent in Hungary, and this was one of the top growth rates in the EU. For 2020 GKI calculates with a 3-3.5 percent...
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