Packaging
Koch, Goldman Sachs to buy Flint Group for over $3 bn
11 Apr 2014
Flint is one of the world’s leading suppliers of inks and other print consumables like flexographic printing plates, blankets, image transfer products and chemicals for press rooms, to the packaging and the print media industries
Packaging Corp to buy rival Boise for $1.27 bn
17 Sep 2013
Amcor spins-off its Australasia business
01 Aug 2013
Chinese regulator probes Tetra Pak over alleged abuse of market dominance
06 Jul 2013
After its investigations into infant milk and drug pricing, Chinese regulators now widen their probe to Swiss food processing and packaging giant Tetra Pak over alleged abuse of market dominance
Amcor posts record full-year underlying profit
22 Aug 2012
DS Smith to acquire Sweden’s SCA Packaging for $2 billion
18 Jan 2012
UK packaging major DS Smith Plc today said that it will acquire the recycled packaging division of Swedish tissue maker Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget, for €1.6 billion
International Paper steps up hostile $3.3-bn bid for Temple-Inland
12 Jul 2011
International Paper, the world's largest producer of paper and packaging products, will begin its all-cash buyout bid for its rival packaging producer tomorrow
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HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
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Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
06 Mar 2023
Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation