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 $ […]
The “Industrial Milk Company” Agricultural holding (IMC, Kiev) plans to build a dairy farm for 700 heads in the Repkinsky district of the Chernigiv region until 2018. This was announced by the CEO of the company Alex Lissitsa. According to him, the company intends to modernize the dairy complex in the Repkinsky district in the […]
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Facebook’s creative team continues its efforts to increasingly monetize its huge audience of more than 2.85 billion active users per month and 1.8 billion active users per day. Facebook’s current plans are to improve the monetization of its Facebook Live product for online broadcasts of events by connecting more paid sports content. Facebook says it […]
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Production and supplies of the American manufacturer of the electric vehicles Tesla grew in the third quarter of 2020 by almost 1.5 times a year, the company said in the release. Therefore, Tesla’s deliveries in the third quarter amounted to 139.3 thousand against 97 thousand in 2019, and the production – 145.036 thousand compared with […]
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Editorial office of business publication LDaily wishes all a Happy New Year! We sincerely wish you to meet the 2017 th with a smile and a warm heart. Let the coming year will give us all another opportunity to finish the job, or start with a clean sheet – write a different story, in which […]
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Ukraine received a $ 350 million loan from the World Bank. “The funds came to Ukraine,” the agency said. The loan was obtained for the systemic project First Loan for Development Policy in the Field of Economic Recovery. The money should be used for economic development during the pandemic, social support for vulnerable groups and […]
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On October 20, the Kyiv Art Gallery Tsekh hosted a presentation of the «Keep It Up!» project created by the artist and sculptor Yevgeny Petrov. The LDaily Business Edition became a media partner of this wonderful project, which highlights the theme of sport. The exhibition is currently open to the public and will be exhibited in the gallery until […]
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Nordea, the €190bn (£135.6bn) Scandinavian fund manager, has become the first major investor to signal it is preparing to sue Volkswagen over the carmaker’s manipulation of emissions tests. Nordea Asset Management told reporters over the weekend that it planned to join “several different class actions” against Volkswagen. The emissions fixing scandal has left investors with billions of […]
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On the site of Guarantee Fund deposits of natural persons it was made public the information about getting by Fund two applications from potential contributors to get acquainted with the documentation and reports of the insolvent bank for finance of the financial institution. It is reported on its website source InVenture. Also on the site […]
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S&P Investment Risk Management Agency launched a legal portal Lawyer.ua 5 years ago. It was designed as an innovative online-platform for lawyers’ communication and for all who needed legal assistance. Experts now can effectively provide legal services in personal online-cabinets while clients can get qualified legal assistance promptly. Today, Lawyer.ua has grown into a large-scale […]
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Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings has made an offer to buy Leyou Technologies Holdings, which estimates this video game developer at 11.61 billion Hong Kong dollars ($ 1.5 billion), writes The Wall Street Journal. Tencent plans to pay for the full transaction with money, without attracting outside funding, and is willing to pay $ 3.3219 […]
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From the sale of enterprises of “Ukrspirt” the state plans to raise between 200 and 400 million dollars. This was announced by Minister of Agricultural Policy Taras Kutovojs in an interview. “The market itself will determine the amount. According to the forecasts, I think it should be from 200 to 400 million dollars “, – the […]
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The State Property Fund of Ukraine representative informed that 99,99% of Ukrainian Bank for Reconstruction and Development (UBRD) had been sold to Bohai Commodity Exchange within the auction second round. The State Institution posted this information on the official web-site. The transaction value consists 82,8 million UAH. The asset’s cost of Ukrainian bank was underestimate […]
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The Polish company Green Factory is interested in renting 500 hectares for growing vegetables in the Zakarpatsky region. The company plans to create its own raw material base in Ukraine. This is said in the statement of the Zakarpatsky regional administration. “The Representatives of the Polish company Green Factory Holding, Rytel Arthur and Martin Kusmerovsky […]
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The Teva Ukraine company is the part of the Teva Corporation, the leading international pharmaceutical company specializing in the development, manufacture and marketing of generic and original medicines. The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine gave the permission for concerted action in the form of fulfillment of the conditions contained in Articles 9.6 and 9.12 of the […]
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Gardening is a purely European business by mentality as it means long-term investments and a completely transparent process. Walnut is a financial pearl of this industry. A walnut garden of only 1 hectare yields more than 1.2 million UAH per year. A walnut garden is an investment in the future and long-term well-being, as one […]
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Microsoft Corp. is in talks to buy Nuance Communications Inc., a developer of a speech and text recognition solution, for about $ 16 billion, several U.S. media outlets reported, citing informed sources. According to them, negotiations are at an advanced stage, and the announcement of the agreement may be made in the coming days. Microsoft […]
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