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Nestlé & LuLu partner to promote reusable grocery bags DUBAI, 4 hours, 29 minutes ago In commemoration of World Environment Day, Nestlé and LuLu have teamed up to encourage use of reusable bags in a joint campaign running instore across 40 outlets in the UAE and on the leading hypermarket chain’s website.    The collaboration will offer 100,000 reusable grocery bags to LuLu shoppers as part of a campaign entitled “Love your planet, and say YES to re-usable bags” that aims to inspire positive changes in consumer behaviour.    “We are committed to making 100% of our packagi...

March 1, 2021 ProAmpac’s new Collaboration & Innovation Center, due to open mid-2021 ProAmpac is to collaborate with a leading US university on the development of smart packaging to protect food from harmful contamination and prolong freshness. The flexible packaging specialist will work with the Department of Food, Nutrition and Packaging Sciences at Clemson University, in South Carolina, on the project. The department’s laboratory will provide testing capabilities… TO CONTINUE READING, PLEASE SUBSCRIBE OR LOGIN

Nestle’s Next Challenge: Sating Human Appetites as Much as Pets Bloomberg 2/18/2021 Corinne Gretler © Bloomberg A reuseable Purina pet food container stands on display inside the new Nestle SA Institute of Packaging Sciences in Vevey, Switzerland, on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019. Nestle set a target to reach zero net greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050 as Schneider said climate change is one of the greatest risks to the company’s future business. (Bloomberg) -- Nestle SA had an easier time selling food for pets than for people in 2020. To meet his promises for faster overall...

January 11, 2021 The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. If a crisis is the ultimate test of leadership, last year provided ample narratives about leaders stepping up. These 20 C-suite executives have steered their companies forward through much disruption, providing inspiration for the possibilities of advancing sustainability, social responsibility and circular business models — sometimes all at once. Often working from home themselves, they empathized with employees a...

Weekend Arena: Nigeria Is Full Of 'Packaging Scientists' I once had a friend and colleague, late Ike Nwabuoku, whose oratory was so impeccable that he could persuade the hardest of souls. A walking library having grown under the tutelage of his dad, a university professor, my friend knew how to deploy this gift whenever his salary ran out.   He would, according to him, ‘wear his garb of hypocrisy’, walk into the MD’s office, sing his praises, and pronto, a salary advance would be approved for him.  We were often amazed at how effortlessly he used to do it, but it always worked for him...