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Entrepreneurship abounds across the diverse island nations of the Caribbean where small, independently-owned beauty product businesses thrive and have been successfully vying for space alongside major international brands in pharmacies, boutiques and family-owned stores alike.

What many manufacturers lack in start-up capital, they make up for in innovation and close proximity to a wealth of organic, raw materials that are finding new favour with modern, discerning consumers at home, with an eye to developing export sales.…

While the Canadian chocolate market is dominated by major manufacturers, such as Nestlé, Hershey, Mondelēz, Lindt, Mars and Ferrero – a diverse artisanal sector is growing towards commercial maturity, as consumers seek out premium products that are locally produced and often marketed to specific target customers.…

After 10 years of research, researchers at the Ångström Laboratory at Uppsala University in Sweden, working with Sweden-based paper packaging manufacturer BillerudKorsnäs, are close to the commercial development of a bio-based paper battery which would serve as a small energy source on paper packages.…

Metal packaging companies are innovating to make the most of the Covid-19 crisis, as competition intensifies from their rivals in the plastics packaging sector, with consumers seeking protection from the disease buying more wrapped food and more single-use plastics containers being sold and discarded.…

The leader of Spain’s food manufacturing industry has called on the country’s government to offer more help in supplying personal protective equipment (PPE) to companies who have stayed open during the Covid-19 pandemic to feed consumers staying at home. Mauricio García de Quevedo, director general de la Federación Española de Industrias de Alimentación y Bebidas (FIAB), told just-food that companies and workers in the food and beverage industry (nearly half a million people), “have reacted in an exemplary manner; they have never stopped supplying the public with the products they need, and maintain the variety, quality and safety that characterise our products.”…

The president of Italian food industry association Federalimentare has told of his concern about the medium- to long-term effects of the drop in demand for Made in Italy foods caused by Covid-19 epidemic affecting the country.

Ivano Vacondio said that the current spike in domestic food demand is “atypical and fleeting”, noting that hoarding by Italian consumers has, until now, camouflaged problems that will soon emerge, he said in statements sent to just-food.…

India’s packaged food industry has been hit hard by the 21-day national lockdown announced by the government on March 25 (last Wednesday) to control the spread of Covid-19 infections. Despite being formally exempted from the lockdown, most Indian food factories remain closed, with their supply chains having been disrupted and distribution effectively suspended nationwide.…

The Indian packaged food industry is hoping to restart a significant number of operations this week, saying state and municipal governments are increasingly willing to approve exemptions for the sector and support services from a general nationwide Covid-19 lockdown on manufacturing and trade, currently in place until May 3.…

The coronavirus pandemic, which is yet to hit its peak in Russia, has put increasing pressure on the country’s food manufacturers by increasing health and safety operational costs and a related decline in the value of the rouble. Major food manufacturers continue to operate at full capacity despite President Vladimir Putin announcing a nationwide lockdown, telling Russians to remain at home on April 2, an order that currently expires on May 11.…

India’s large-scale dairy industry is reorienting procurement and processing towards making solid dairy products, taking advantage of the supply chain and demand disruptions caused by the 21-day national lockdown from March 25 imposed by the government to control the spread of Covid-19.…