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...Race to zero Apple’s Watch nonetheless shows progress on its materials recycling targets, with the latest edition for example using only recycled cobalt in the battery and recycled aluminium in the casing...
...For example: if Generic Greek God Capital is buying Widgetmaker Inc, 70 per cent of the equity it ponies up might come from one of its LBO funds....
...This recycled paper eliminates the need for plastic liners or bubble-bag insulation, it said. Amazon’s move is in line with a growing shift towards paper....
...But at the end of 2021, greeting card companies reported that sales of Christmas cards were up....
...Greetings from New York, where I (and many others) are recovering from the joys of endless feasting over Thanksgiving....
...No old paper bags, bits of string, ribbon and wood, nails or pieces of cloth were ever thrown away if they could be repurposed in some form — as clothes, fencing, or anything else....
...It just started selling potatoes in paper bags rather than plastic and is testing a coated paper bag for frozen shrimp and chicken....
...Greetings from New York, where one issue being discussed in the mainstream financial world is the Federal Reserve’s latest bank stress tests....
...(Patrick Temple-West) Recycled (hot) air?...
...Brookfield moves to simplify its structure Earlier this month, Brookfield’s Bruce Flatt, pictured below, put pen to paper about “what really matters to our business” — and his answer may surprise you....
...More than 40 big companies, including Mars Inc, PepsiCo and Unilever, are now experimenting with reusable packaging, according to the foundation....
...He now has a blank sheet of paper in front of him; five years in which he can do what he likes, so he may be completely untrammelled.”...
...Most shops in Mumbai, the state capital, are so far complying with the ban, and offer paper or textile bags at the checkout....
...Bankside Design District South Bank The first UK exhibition of San Francisco’s Letterform Archive (see below) will include works by Eric Gill, Piet Zwart, Emigre, Inc and many others....
...DEVELOPING MARKETS Bollant Industries Based in Hyderabad, India, the company makes packaging from agricultural waste and recycled paper....
...Powerflute has recycled paper “coreboard” mills in Finland, France and North America and makes high grade packaging papers used for transporting fruit and veg at a mill in Finland....
...Wearing a straw hat and a big grin, farmer Casey O’Neill is busy greeting customers at a Saturday farmers’ market in Mendocino County, Northern California....
...Their chaperon, the Prudential Regulation Authority, will outline its thinking in a consultation paper in October....
...CVS said pharmacy same-store sales rose 6.8 per cent, offsetting a 1.9 per cent decline in the company’s front of store business, where it sells products such as toilet paper, greeting cards and Kit Kat...
...Times) India’s middle class and the rupee (Bloomberg) Regulators take aim at recycled securities (Financial Times) Japan’s shrinking shinkin (Reuters) Shale boom won’t allow US to disengage from Middle...
...Also as part of this strategy, the company in 1999 spent $780 million for Blue Mountain Arts, a provider of online greeting cards....
...The takeover of a unit of a Swedish rival earlier this year has buoyed interim revenues at DS Smith, helping the British recycled packing specialist offset weakness in the UK paper market....
...“Perhaps the trouble comes from Westerners’ traditional sense of superiority,” the paper’s editorial said....
...Increased competition and the falling price of recyclate – materials recycled from construction and industrial sites, such as waste paper, that are used to form new products – have combined to pile pressure...
...A recent addition also allows customers to film a short video on their mobile which can then be unlocked by a paper card’s recipient, using the Moonpig app....
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