Labelexpo video: UPM Raflatac

Visitors to the UPM Raflatac stand are seeing sustainability in the spotlight, with Ocean Action labels made from ocean bound plastic waste, the new PureCycle wash-off paper label materials, and the RAFNXT+ paper label products and linerless labels.

Watch Robert Taylor from UPM Raflatac outline the company's new sustainability developments to Print21 editor Wayne Robinson, and explain why they are important for label printing. 

Food & Drink Business

Our Top 100 2025 edition of Food & Drink Business magazine is more than the annual flagship Top 100 Report. Industry leaders reflect on the year past and the one ahead, we provide our annual news review, M&A wrap-up, and all the executive moves, and a Roman-inspired sports drink, Posca, is our final Rising Star for 2025.

A blend of salt, red wine vinegar, and water – known as Posca – was the ‘original sports drink’, helping to keep the soldiers of the Roman Empire marching up to 30 kilometres per day. Keira Joyce spoke with Posca Hydrate co-founders, Merrick Watts and Ed Stening, about reviving a 2000-year-old functional beverage for the modern healthy lifestyle.

From the big deals to the quiet divestments, Food & Drink Business editor, Kim Berry, recounts the mergers and acquisitions of 2025.