This year the company Nestle has established a venture fund package for $ 260 million, but it is just a part of a wider initiative of $ 2.1 billion for abandonment of primary plastic.
Two years ago, Nestle that will make all its packaging suitable for recycling or re-use and intends to reduce the use of primary plastic by one third to 2025.
For example, in 2018 Nestle has used 1.7 million metric tons of the plastic packaging. Currently, the company consumes an average of only 2% of recycled plastic worldwide. In general, slightly more is used for underwater bottles that contain 5% of the recycled plastic.
Nestle intends to use the investment in Closed Loop, to ensure the supply of environmentally friendly packaging, as the demand for recycled plastics for food increases.
The fund of the Closed Loop Partners aims to increase the level of recycling of the plastic waste in the United States by 25% in areas served by the companies included in the portfolio.
Company representatives, who engaged in the design, construction and equipment for solar power plants, note a significant decline in demand for their services. This is due to instability of the industry and growing debts for “green” electricity. “We are talking about 1260 MW of RES generation that has been launched in the first three quarters […]
German automaker Volkswagen will invest about 73 billion euros over the next five years in electrification, hybrid powertrains and digital technology, the company said in a statement following a meeting of the supervisory board. In particular, about 35 billion euros are planned to be spent on electric cars on battery power, about 11 billion – […]
Shares of Netflix fell after the company released a quarterly report on October 20 with only 2.2 million new subscribers. At the same time, over the last week, stock growth has resumed and since the beginning of the year, the share price of Netflix has risen by 59%. The company’s management and analysts cited the […]
The largest Chinese Internet company Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. will acquire from Auchan Retail International shares of the largest Chinese hypermarket operator Sun Art Retail Group for $ 3.6 billion, according to the press release from Alibaba. “Alibaba is investing $ 28 billion ($ 3.6 billion) to acquire … 70.94% of Auchan Retail’s stake in […]
Warren Buffett’s US company – Berkshire Hathaway intends to invest more than $ 570 million in Snowflake, a cloud technology company. It was reported after Snowflake announced a price range for its future initial public offering. The company wants to get the estimate of $ 23.7 billion, writes the Financial Times. Snowflake said that during […]
In the second quarter, the Australian economy fell by 7% to the first quarter amid a coronavirus pandemic. In the previous quarter, the decline was 0.3%. Thus, Australia has entered a recession for the first time in 30 years. The quarterly decline in GDP has been the highest since the beginning of observations in 1959. […]
The owner and president of DCH Oleksandr Yaroslavsky is ready to attract $ 1 billion in investments in the restoration of the Kharkiv Aviation Production Enterprise. This statement is published on the official website of the DCH. “The DCH Group is ready to take responsibility for the resumption of domestic aircraft construction and raise $ […]
Each company and the man himself admits, sometimes failing, seemingly mistakes. But if it is really a failure or a good experience for the development shows a wonderful book of Laurence G. Weinzimmer and Jim McConoughey “The Wisdom of Failure”. 5 small stories from the book will help you to understand that the business mistakes […]
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The policy of GFS of Ukraine, directed to the problem resolution of central government budget deficit doesn’t promote business development at all. Entrepreneurs ring the alarm bells! Despite the moratorium of business checks conducting , the expiring year has remembered by just improbable actions activation of the Public fiscal service of Ukraine. From practice As […]
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Foreign pharmaceutical company Euro Pharma International is building a new pharmaceutical plant in Kiev Svyatoshinsky district, Kyiv region. The first phase of the project start is scheduled for autumn 2016. To date, the company estimates the volume of investments of $ 50 million. “I am very pleased that the foreign investors are interested in our […]
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According to a report by the US Department of Commerce on Thursday, the fall in gross domestic product (GDP) for the period from April to June (2nd quarter) amounted to 32.9% compared with the same value last year. Economists have noted that it is the strongest decrease since the government started to keep records in […]
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As having reported on Agro Portal, KWS Ukraine Company has invested 20 million euros in the seed plant start-up in Khmelnytskyi region. The plant power has been 6 thousand tonnes per one year on the September- October in Kamyanets-Podolskyi town (Khmelnytskyi region).LLC KWS Ukraine specialises in seeds plant production and distribution. It has put on […]
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Commercial Court of Kiev took to attention the case of the right’s deprivation of Farmak Ukraine on the use of certificates for signs for Diazolinum goods. It is reported by a specialized news resource Pharma.net.. A prerequisite to the beginning of the litigation was an appeal of representatives of the international distributor of Farmat LTD […]
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If coronavirus vaccines become widely available and help restore international trade and economic growth, the dollar is likely to fall by 20% in 2021. Bloomberg reports that this forecast was made by Citigroup Bank. If the forecast comes true, it will be a record drop since 1985, when the DXY index fell by 18.5% over […]
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A few days ago the official Facebook-community of one of the Ukraine’s largest shopping clubs LeBoutique was unavailable. The community is quite popular; about 35 000 users signed for the page. As reported in AIN.UA shopping club, the community was blocked by administration of the social network for the use of someone else’s trademark. The […]
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Antimonopoly regulator of EU approved the agreement of 16.2 billion euro merger with French group for the production of luxury goods LVMH (Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy) and transnational jewelry company Tiffany. This was reported by Reuters. According to the information, the merger agreement was approved without additional conditions for the companies. Earlier, Tiffany reported that […]
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The Tesa company (LLC) sold shares of Investbank to Alexey Kotovskyi. There was a requirement of the National Bank ownership structure. This was announced on the bank’s website. At the moment Alex Kotovskij owns 41.2% of the share capital of the bank. The financial institutions report says that the National Bank held an additional issue […]
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On Monday, the Cabinet of Ministers of the United Kingdom officially announced the implementation of more than 700.000 million shares of the largest national retail bank Lloyds Banking Group total value of which, at the close of the stock market on Friday, estimated at 481 million pounds. Thus, a majority of assets owned by the […]
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The ex-president and founder of the largest mobile operator Kyivstar Igor Litovchenko in Ukraine became the owner of the Wireless telecom provider SmartCommunications (TM Giraffe). Ukrainian edition Liga.net informed about this, referring to the State Register of natural persons-entrepreneurs and legal entities. According to official figures, Igor Lytovchenko is the owner of the Cyprus offshore Magnilda Holdings Ltd., which owns Giraffe. As said the […]
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Large tobacco company Philip Morris couldn’t prove that the new Australian legislation, which involves standardized packs for all manufacturers of cigarettes, violates the intellectual property rights of the brand. The company filed a lawsuit against the Government of Australia to the arbitration court in Singapore, that refused to consider the case on the grounds that […]
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Lactalis dairy products manufacturer has signed an agreement with the Italian company Parmalat – one of the main competitors of the French group in Europe. According to official information, it is about the acquisition of more than 12.2% of the shares of Parmalat: the value of one security is 2.8 dollars per piece. It should […]
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Considering features of construction business of Ukraine, investors often come up against a situation when the builder isn’t able to fulfil properly the liabilities – whether it be a delay of the termination of a construction or “frost” of an object. As a rule, the majority of cases with liabilities execution suspension by the builder […]
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December 23, 2015, the representatives of the largest streaming service in the USA Pandora Media reported that the company absorbed the music service Rdio, which become bankrupt, for $ 75 million. The deal was approved by the judge on the bankruptcy. There were no competing bids for the purchase of service. Pandora now becomes the […]
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