PLAY PKN: Video Bulletin 8 July

In the news: Jamestrong Packaging, Close the Loop Group, Plastic Forests, Confoil, BASF, Riot Wine Co, Konvoy, McCormick, Berry Global, PepsiCo, Doritos, ReachOut, Republic of Everyone, Periscope, Aldi, Great Wrap. 

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Food & Drink Business

Sullivans Cove has appointed Andy Gaunt as its new CEO. Gaunt was managing director for Fever-Tree ANZ and Asia and was a founding member of Diageo’s luxury division in global market development.

Plasdene Glass-Pak in New Zealand has acquired the Auckland-based Glass Packaging Division of Wainhouse Distribution.

While the removal of import duties on Australian bottled wine sent to China has resulted in a massive surge for the industry, exports to the rest of the world have declined to the lowest value in ten years and lowest volume in over twenty years, according to Wine Australia’s latest Export Report.