PLAY PKN: Video Bulletin 24 May

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Food & Drink Business

Former SPC Global chairman, Dr Hussein Rifai, has rejected the company’s $4.5 million Supreme Court claim, saying the transactions being challenged were made when SPC was a privately owned company and calling for the full documentary record to be put before the court.

Food and beverage manufacturers are facing a warehouse space crisis, and most of them did not see it coming. Production expanded, storage followed and over time, an organised operation became a fragmented footprint of disconnected warehouses, rising third-party costs, and a site nobody would have designed on purpose. Swisslog ANZ director of sales, Steve Dimitrovski, examines why the space problem is structural and how automation is helping manufacturers solve it without building a new site.

Organic Bay Distillery has partnered with Peacock Bros. to deliver a premium packaging transformation, helping it strengthen its shelf presence in Australia's increasingly competitive craft spirits’ market.