PLAY PKN: Video News Bulletin 22 January

In the news this week: APCO, Martogg Group, Sally Williams, OF Pack, One Paper, OF Resource Recovery, WPO, Planet Protector Packaging, Sealed Air, Platypus Print Packaging, NCI Packaging, Birdstone Collective, Coca-Cola Amatil, Brownes Dairy Group, Ecolean, Disruptive Packaging, and Pact Group

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Food & Drink Business

Bega Group has reached an agreement with Crumpton Group to sell the land, buildings and equipment located at the Peanut Company of Australia’s peanut processing sites in Kingaroy and Tolga, after initially deciding they would be shut down over the next 18 months.

National industry body, Spirits & Cocktails Australia (SCA), has appointed Steven Fanner as executive director. Fanner will be based in Canberra, as the organisation moves its headquarters from Sydney to the capital.

For Bruce Russell, Wild Turkey isn’t just a whiskey brand – it’s family. As the third generation of Russells to work at the Kentucky distillery, Bruce carries forward a legacy built by his grandfather, Jimmy Russell, and his father, Eddie Russell. Food & Drink Business caught up with Bruce on his recent Australian visit to promote the release of Masters Keep Beacon, Wild Turkey’s 11th Masters Keep expression.