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Sonoco acquires remaining interest in brazilian joint venture


Fudge Kitchen celebrates 39 years with fudge goes formal event


On April 4-5, the Fudge Kitchen announced they are taking time off to bring the entire business together for their first ever Fudge Goes Formal event. The brand is celebrating 39 years in confectionery, and in particular the


hard work, dedication and strength of the whole Fudge Kitchen team. The company says every member has played their part in successfully driving the business through the last two challenging years. Fudge Goes Formal will take place on the evening of Monday 4 April at the


Castle Hotel, with an internal awards ceremony, dinner, a live band and disco. Tuesday 5 will see all the teams meet to battle it out in the highly competitive fudge making competition and a number of ‘Fudge Olympic’ games, from blind taste-testing, to fudgey tic-tac-toe and even a fudge limbo! The tradition of getting the shop teams together annually is a long standing


one. Fudge Kitchen MD, Sian Holt, said: “With our shops so widely spread across the UK, it’s important to take the time to get the teams together. This year we can collectively applaud our survival and celebrate all that we have achieved, from a rebrand to making great headway along our sustainability journey. After all, that’s our purpose – to make life sweeter and we’re geared up and ready for 2022 and beyond.”


Tomra marks 50th anniversary with exciting world without waste mission


TOMRA, a global provider of advanced collection and sorting solutions, celebrates its 50th anniversary today. Each of the Group’s four divisions – Collection, Food, Recycling and Mining – marked the milestone by declaring a collective mission for the future to “transform how we all obtain, use and reuse the planet’s resources to enable a world without waste.” Tove Andersen, President and Chief Executive Officer,


explained: “We live in a world that needs big transformation. We urgently need to improve sustainability, develop the circular economy, and make more efficient use of resources – challenges which our solutions can help address. “Fifty years after its humble beginnings, we can be proud of the fact that the company is a highly respected global market leader. This is living proof of our ability to adapt, innovate, and provide the solutions our customers really need. This is also a time to look forward because we are now opening the chapter in TOMRA’s story where we step up our role leading the resource revolution.”


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TOMRA Food, said: “We are proud to participate in celebrating 50 years of TOMRA. TOMRA Food is a fairly new division compared to others but has a strong sense of belonging to ‘One TOMRA’, with a shared company culture and purpose. “Looking to the future, TOMRA is committed to leading the


resource revolution in a world where Every Resource Counts. We are on a mission to transform and help our customers feed the world, improve yield, minimise waste, and create sustainable value.”


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Sonoco, one of the largest global sustainable packaging companies, has announced it has acquired the remaining one-third interest in Sonoco do Brasil Participacoes, Ltda, a Brazil- based flexible packaging joint venture, from private investors. Sonoco acquired its two-third interest


in the joint venture in 2015 from Graffo Paranaense de Embalagens S/A, a closely held flexible packaging operation located in Pinhais, near Curitiba, Brazil. The joint venture had sales of approximately $34 million in 2021 and is a top-tier flexible packaging supplier to several global multinational consumer packaging goods companies serving confectionery,


dairy, pharmaceutical


and industrial markets in Brazil. The joint


rotogravure printing and sophisticated lamination operations and is one of the largest converters of foil-based flexible packaging in Brazil.


venture operates high-quality


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