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Anheuser-Busch InBev will buy back a 49.9% stake in its US metal container plants for about $3 billion (Image source: © AB InBev

AB InBev buys back stake in US metal packaging plants for $3bn

Fanta partners with horror icons for Halloween campaign

Fanta partners with horror icons for Halloween campaign

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The limited edition ice-cream launched in the UK.

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Outgoing Nampak CEO Erik Smuts. Source: Nampak

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Pepsi overhauls logo and visual identity after 14 years

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Big changes coming to Toblerone's iconic packaging

Big changes coming to Toblerone's iconic packaging

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#BizTrends: 6 global retail trends making their mark in FMCG

#BizTrends: 6 global retail trends making their mark in FMCG

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Major brands failing to meet plastic sustainability goals

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Lindt's chocolate bunny trade mark win shows shape matters to consumers

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Pentawards 2022: Best in global packaging design revealed

Pentawards 2022: Best in global packaging design revealed

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Coca-Cola delays IPO of African bottling unit

Coca-Cola delays IPO of African bottling unit

Ananya Mariam Rajesh 15 Jun 2022

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Ardagh's $1bn takeover of African glass maker Consol concludes

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Coca-Cola sets goal to make 25% of packaging reusable by 2030

Coca-Cola sets goal to make 25% of packaging reusable by 2030

14 Feb 2022

Source: Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko

Ardagh to buy SA glass manufacturer Consol for R10.1bn

Emma Rumney 29 Nov 2021

Coca-Cola's Bruno Pietracci talks African optimism and new ways of working

Coca-Cola's Bruno Pietracci talks African optimism and new ways of working

Lauren Hartzenberg 15 Oct 2021

PepsiCo introduces initiative to drive sustainable transformation strategy

PepsiCo introduces initiative to drive sustainable transformation strategy

20 Sep 2021

Tetra Pak partners with Synercore to accelerate food chain innovation in Africa

Tetra Pak partners with Synercore to accelerate food chain innovation in Africa

2 Jul 2021

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To ban or not to ban plastic shopping bags? Implications and proposed solutions

Asphat Muposhi, Mercy Mpinganjira, Marius Wait 23 Jun 2021

Coca-Cola Beverages Africa acquires share in Lesotho bottler

Coca-Cola Beverages Africa acquires share in Lesotho bottler

10 May 2021

Credit: L'Oréal Group

L'Oréal Paris to cut 50% of carbon footprint by 2030

26 Apr 2021

Corona pilots beer packaging made using surplus barley

Corona pilots beer packaging made using surplus barley

18 Mar 2021

NPO exerts pressure on FMCG and retail giants to cut plastic usage

NPO exerts pressure on FMCG and retail giants to cut plastic usage

15 Jan 2021

Recycling isn't enough - the world's plastic pollution crisis is only getting worse

Recycling isn't enough - the world's plastic pollution crisis is only getting worse

Stephanie B. Borrelle 18 Sep 2020

Alpla to consolidate manufacturing in Gauteng with new plant

Alpla to consolidate manufacturing in Gauteng with new plant

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How the Shoprite Group is curbing its plastic packaging waste

How the Shoprite Group is curbing its plastic packaging waste

22 Jan 2020

#BizTrends2020: Africa's double-edged consumer demand

#BizTrends2020: Africa's double-edged consumer demand

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Pick n Pay trials 'pick and weigh' packaging-free zone in Cape Town

Pick n Pay trials 'pick and weigh' packaging-free zone in Cape Town

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Dr Carl Driesener, senior marketing scientist at the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute (EBI) of marketing science in Australia explaining the 5 steps to becoming a smarter target marketer at Spark Media's recent event.

5 steps to becoming a smarter target marketer

Leigh Andrews 8 Nov 2019

Unilever pledges to slash use of new plastics

Unilever pledges to slash use of new plastics

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