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Crunch time for fruit exports
After 23 years in SA's R6bn fruit industry, many of them as managing director of Tru-Cape Fruit Marketing - SA's biggest producer of apples and pears - Charles Hughes is retiring without having...
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Nampak earnings up 7.4% to 114.3c
Nampak's interim results for the six months to March saw the rest of Africa markets markedly contributing as the group as it grew overall trading income by 10%.Read more... | Send to a friend
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Packaging in SA is always changing shape
If there is one industry where everything is in flux and companies have to re-jig their shapes and formats all the time, it is SA's packaging manufacturers. Apart from constantly changing industry...
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4th Addis Agrofood Exhibition in Ethiopia
[[http://www.agricouncil.org/3163-2/ Image Source: African Agri Council]]</span>The 4th International Addis Agrofood Agriculture, Agricultural Machinery, Food, Food Technologies and Packaging...
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Sweet end of packaging
With the global bakery and confectionery market predicted to reach €436 billion and €203 billion respectively by 2020, the specialist packaging industry is gearing up to provide machinery that is...
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#BODCT: Redesigning the world one business at a time, to surprise and delight...
Morris and Mtongana.</span>Big brands shared the role of design in their business at Business of Design, with Adrian Morris, partner and MD at Design Partnership speaking of the current physical...
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Four things this packaging company teaches us about Africa's consumer goods...
Keith Dilkes.</span>The consumer-facing sector has been pivotal to Africa's growth story, with McKinsey & Company estimating it accounted for almost 50% of GDP expansion between 2010 and...
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Green business is good business: A sustainable approach to growing flowers in...
Oserian Technical Director, Hamish Ker, explains how the company utilises geothermal power in its greenhouses</span>Players from Kenya's flower sector paid Britain and the Netherlands a visit in...
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How plastics made from plants could be the answer to the world's waste problem
© picsfive – [[www.123rf.com 123RF.com]]</span>Plastics are incredibly useful materials with extremely diverse properties, allowing a multitude of different applications that benefit our...
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Nine decades of Coca-Cola in Africa
Ninety years ago, in 1928, the first Coca-Cola was sold on the continent in Cape Town, South Africa.Read more... | Send to a friend
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Agro-food, plastics, printing and packaging trade shows move to Abidjan
African Hope via [[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Palmier_a_huile_fili%C3%A8re_(25).JPG Wikimedia Commons]]</span>Côte d'Ivoire is becoming the breadbasket of West Africa with the...
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Harnessing the evolutionary power of smart packaging in Africa
For the last few years, packaging industry professionals have been curious about the future of smart packaging. Whilst barcodes and quick-response (QR) codes were once considered the "next big thing"...
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#Apex2018: How to build a global brand with a local insight
Veteran marketer Sharon Keith shared on the topic 'Our world: a small global village' four basic principles in explaining how to build global brands at the local level and examples to demonstrate these...
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Sustainable packaging solutions needed to reduce food waste, scale up trade...
Food losses and waste are an enormous drain on natural resources. Roughly one-third of the annual food produced globally for human consumption - approximately 1.3 billion tonnes - is lost or wasted....
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How we can turn plastic waste into green energy
© Warut Chinsai – [[www.123rf.com 123RF.com]]</span>In the adventure classic Back to the Future, Emmett "Doc" Brown uses energy generated from rubbish to power his DeLorean time machine. But...
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#EntrepreneurMonth: Meet SA's pioneer of biodegradable food packaging
As the founder of Green Home, South Africa's first completely compostable food packaging company, Catherine Morris wants to make plant-based packaging the norm.Read more... | Send to a friend
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New CEO for Coca-Cola Beverages Africa
Jacques Vermeulen has been appointed group CEO of Coca-Cola Beverages Africa (CCBA), effective from 1 December 2018.Read more... | Send to a friend
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Coca-Cola pledges $38m towards recycling initiatives in Africa
Coca-Cola Africa has committed to investing $38million (more than half a billion rand) over three years to stimulate recycling industries across Southern and Eastern Africa, and also announced its new...
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How plastics made from plants could be the answer to the world's waste problem
© picsfive – [[www.123rf.com 123RF.com]]</span>Plastics are incredibly useful materials with extremely diverse properties, allowing a multitude of different applications that benefit our...
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Nine decades of Coca-Cola in Africa
Ninety years ago, in 1928, the first Coca-Cola was sold on the continent in Cape Town, South Africa.Read more... | Send to a friend
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