Archives for November 6, 2002

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SIG meets new packaging requirements for UK baker

SIG Doboy Linium has supplied Manor Bakeries, the UK producer of Mr Kipling brand cakes, with two packaging lines at its Stoke on Trent facility. The new lines were designed to provide flexibility for future changes and to meet requirements for a new...

Nampak plans to expand in Europe

Nampak has announced that it plans to expand its packaging operations beyond the low growth South African domestic market and will initially drive its future growth by concentrating on its European operations.

Have your cake and eat it, says Co-op

A chocolate cake made using ingredients from Fairtrade, the UK organisation which guarantees fair prices for producers in some of the world's poorest regions, is the latest own label product launch by the UK's Co-op Group.

UB to sell Fontaneda to Siro group

After months of bitter negotiations with staff at its Fontaneda biscuit unit in Spain, Britain's United Biscuits group has agreed to sell the company to Siro, another Spanish biscuit maker which has agreed to maintain staff levels there.