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Sainsbury’s launches reverse vending recycling trial
Sainsbury’s has launched a reverse vending recycling trials at selected stores which allow customers to return plastic bottles of any size up to three litres and drinks cans bought from Sainsbury’s in exchange for 5p coupons towards their shop. Stores in Lincoln, Hull and Glasgow are undertaking the trials, in which up to 500 items can be deposited per visit, which means customers could save up to £25 off their shopping. Judith Batchelar, director Sainsbury’s Brand said: “We’re delighted to
offer a new way to help our customers recycle while saving on their shop.” The reverse vending recycling trial is the latest in a line of steps Sainsbury’s is taking as part of its drive to cut plastic by removing, reusing, replacing and recycling.
Berry Global Group completes
acquisition of RPC Group Berry Global Group has announced the $6.5 billion acquisition of RPC Group. The combination of Berry and RPC creates a global supplier of valued-added protective solutions and one of the world’s largest plastic packaging companies. Berry’s combined global footprint will consist of over 290
locations worldwide, including locations in North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia. The pro forma combined business will employ over 48,000 people across six continents with sales of approximately $13 billion. “We are very excited to move forward together as a global plastic and recycled packaging industry leader, serving thousands of customers with our high-quality, innovative, and protective solutions along with the industry’s most diversified and expansive manufacturing footprint,” said Tom Salmon, chairman and CEO of Berry. “The acquisition of RPC will give us the opportunity to
leverage our combined know-how in innovative material science, product development, and manufacturing technologies to create significant value for our shareholders. Through this shared approach, we anticipate approximately $150 million in annual synergies.” “We remain highly impressed by the depth of talent and
resources embedded within RPC and are looking forward to the opportunity to strengthen our combined platform with the wealth of experience and expertise this team has to offer. We believe this acquisition will further enhance the long-term outlook for our business and will provide a unique value creation opportunity for our shareholders,” stated Salmon.
Partnership brings healthy hydration to vending
Westways Vending has teamed up with iPro Sport to bring healthy hydration drinks into the vending sector. Westways has branded, configured and installed state-of-the-art vending machines to display and deliver the iPro Sport range. Contactless payments systems have been fitted to facilitate payment by card or cash to ensure that customers aren’t left thirsty. Westways uses intelligent vending to improve services through
data, enabling them to feedback accurate, real time sales information to partners such as iPro Sport. In time this will help to tailor iPro Sport vending to individual needs. The iPro Sport vending machines contain both iPro Spring
Water and iPro Hydrate, which comes in four flavours. iPro Hydrate is fast taking over the health and wellbeing market due to the low sugar recipe which contains no artificial sweeteners, colours and flavours. In addition, iPro Sport has recently launched a school compliant range of non-carbonated healthy drinks for kids, available in Berry Mix and Mango flavours - already proving very popular in schools across the country. Westways Vending managing director, Ian Baker, said: “It has been a pleasure to work with iPro Sport on this partnership. By coupling our vending expertise with their innovative iPro Sport rehydration range, new market opportunities will be opened up for both companies. We look forward to our relationship going from strength to strength.”
iPro Sport commercial director, Sophie Christy, added: “We are delighted to work with Westways Vending to not only create bespoke iPro Sport branded vending machines but to also provide healthy hydration solutions for Westways customers across all sectors of the vending industry.”
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