Raphael Geminder’s protracted bid to buy the whole of Pact will run until March, with the offer to acquire all shares now extended, and further warnings issued to the remaining shareholders.

Food & Drink Business has launched its inaugural industry excellence awards and is calling on all food and beverage processing and packaging innovators to submit entries. 

The Spicers Group, a leading supplier of paper, packaging, and visual communication products, has entered into an agreement with Winson Group to acquire Signet Packaging.

Net profit at the world’s biggest packaging business, Amcor, fell by almost 60 per cent in the first half of the financial year, leading to the company axeing 2000 jobs, about five per cent of its workforce, as it seeks to reduce costs.

In a move to reduce its reliance on virgin plastic for flexible wrappers for its Cadbury chocolate range, Mondelez has inked a deal with Amcor to source 1000 tonnes of post-consumer recycled plastic.

WPO president Luciana Pellegrino, has revealed her new executive team of VPs, who will hold office for the 2024-2026 period covering four key portfolios: Marketing, Education, Sustainability & Save Food, and Governance.

Australians will now have access to recycling instructions on qualifying paper cups, thanks to a recent partnership between the APCO's ARL program with paper cup recycling program Simply Cups.

Revenue at Pro-Pac rose by five per cent in the quarter to December 31, driven by new flexibles customers, in what the company said continued to be a challenging market.

The crowd gathered for the opening of the upgraded soft plastics recycling line at Close the Loop's Reservoir facility speaks volumes for the milestone this marks for finding a solution for hard-to-recycle materials.

Chobani Australia has cut the plastic content by almost half in the packaging for its Gippsland Dairy 160g stirred yoghurt products, by removing the black plastic lid and plastic spoon-in-lid.  

CHEP has been certified for the third year as a Top Employer in Australia by the Top Employers Institute, and is among 17 organisations to achieve Global Top Employer certification.

VicReturn has appointed sustainability specialist Freya Marsden as chair of its board of directors, on the strength of her vast industry experience and expertise as an economist across a range of sectors.

Visy has acquired Packsize Australia and New Zealand. Operating under ‘Packsize enabled by Visy’, the acquisition gives Visy exclusive distribution rights for Packsize’s technology and solutions, providing right sized boxes on demand. Packsize technology will be on show at APPEX 2024.

Food delivery service Uber Eats launched its $13m fund and multi-year partnership with Planet Ark in Sydney this week, a collaboration it says is designed to help restaurants on the platform adopt more sustainable packaging options.

Planet Protector Group has closed a $12 million Series A capital raise led by the Mindaroo Foundation and the Victorian State Government, together with a cohort of other Singaporean-based impact investors. The company behind Woolpack is now poised to scale and expand into new verticals.

US-based packaging company TricorBraun is firmly on the acquisition trail in Australia, now expanding its footprint to Western Australia with its latest purchase of Perth-based Plas-Pak WA.