Simeon Goldstein, packagingnews.co.uk, 25 September 2009
FMCG giant Unilever has made a binding offer to buy the personal care division of US firm Sara Lee Corporation for EUR 1.275bn.
The Anglo-Dutch firm said today the acquisition would add a “strong stable of brands”, such as Sanex, Radox and Duschdas, to a category that it considers a key driver for growth, particularly in Western Europe and Asia.
Read the full article here: http://tinyurl.com/y8ctz8k
Interesting piece of work – watch this space (Annie)
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Going live – EFPIA pilot project makes debutIt was a rather soft launch in Sweden today, but an important moment for industry and patients.The EFPIA pilot project, testing a product verification system in pharmacy based on the use of a two-dimensional data-matrix went live today in Sweden. There was not an official ‘hard launch’ that will come, but earlier this morning three pharmacies began to use the system. Another 20+ will go live next week.
via EFPIA.
By Katie Bird , www.cosmeticsdesign-europe.com, 02-Sep-2009
French companies have a lot to offer the US in terms of green packaging, according to French business development agency Ubifrance.
In partnership with the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute (PMMI), the agency is organizing a Franco-US symposium on sustainable packaging in New York on December 14.
‘How to Go Green in Packaging’ is a one day event and will include general information about sustainability during packaging manufacture as well as a number of industry specific workshops looking at cosmetics, pharmaceuticals and food.
Read the full article at: Green packaging event hopes to promote US-Franco trade links.
Printed Electronics World – 2nd Sept 2009
The nineteenth century saw ubiquitous black and white printing. The twentieth century was one of color printing. However, we are now in the century of printed electronics taking over from that. Nowhere will the impact be more obvious than packaging because the new electronics transforms much more than the human interface. It leverages the usefulness of the product itself and performs other functions such as tracking, tracing and reduction of theft and counterfeiting.
via Printed Electronics World: Brand enhancement by electronics in packaging.
Just seen this article on the BNO twitter site -
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer to pay $2.3 billion for illegal promotion of products, the largest health care fraud settlement in U.S. history.
That’s a lot of money!
