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 $ […]
Ukrainian commercial organization McDonald’s Ukraine Ltd., owned by Golden Arches Eutopians Holdings B.V. Dutch company, has increased in the past year, investment in the improvement of the network of Ukrainian fast-food restaurants. As UNIAN reported earlier, the rate of investment rose by 23% which amounts to 270 million UAH. It is also known that in […]
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The increase of the minimum wage in Ukraine from UAH 5,000 to UAH 6,500 in 2021 may increase the state budget deficit to more than 6% of gross domestic product. This is stated in the economic review of the World Bank. In addition, the increase in the minimum wage will increase the overall need to […]
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Automaker Lincoln Motor Company has introduced a new car Lincoln Nautilus. The basic version of the car has a 2-liter turbo engine with a capacity of 250 horsepower. The more powerful version is equipped with a 2.7-liter twin-turbocharged V6 engine with 335 hp. Both models have standard 8-speed automatic transmission. The interior of the car […]
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The Swiss construction company Bruenig Mega Safe AG offered the rich to save their money in a storage carved into alpine rocks. It is reported that the company plans to use space in the mountains equivalent to ten football fields to create a storage. The warehouses will have a volume of 100 cubic meters and […]
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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 […]
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Recently resolved a long legal battle between the two eternal rivals -Samsung Electronics Co. and Apple Inc. December 4, 2015 in the US District Court in San Jose, California, Samsung representatives said that they will pay Apple compensation in the amount of $548 million in the case of patent rights. This amount today suits both […]
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Some owners of PrivatBank payment cards can have difficulties while paying goods and services via the terminal or PayPass. It is reported by Ukrainian news portal AIN.UA referring to the information furnished by the Bank. According to official explanations by consultants of nationalized financial institution customers whose card starts from a combination of numbers 5457, […]
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For the first time in 40 years, the American oil company ExxonMobil suffered an annual loss of $ 22.4 billion. Last year the company’s revenue fell by 30.7% to $ 46.5 billion. The agency notes that the company suffered billions in losses due to the coronavirus pandemic and falling demand for oil, as well as […]
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Continuing a topic of the relations correct registration between investors and the builder we continue to inform about legal niceties of such relations possible options registration within a “Construction scam”special project. We have already said about how to arrange the agreement of share participation, the purchase and sale provisional agreement. Today it will be an […]
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The Ukrainian insurance company TAS Group, belonging to Sergey Tigipko,has absorbed the Netherlands private joint-stock company Aegon Life Ukraine which management made the decision to abandon the Ukrainian market. For shareholders of Aegon Life Ukraine 2015, it has ended with the net loss in the amount of 3,6 million hryvnias. Total receivables of insurers from […]
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The investment company Prosperity Capital Management has concentrated 7.93% of global depositary receipts (of GDR) of the largest Ukrainian producer of poultry – agricultural holding “MHP” (MHP). According to a report on the website of the London Stock Exchange on Friday, now the company owns 8,000,000 789,186 GDR. According to the information at Prosperity Capital […]
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In the north of England, in the shire of Durham closed the last commercial coal mine Bradley Mine, which operated for almost 200 years. It is noted that the open coal sump, which produced 150 thousand tons of coal per year, decided to close after failed plans to expand production areas. Environmentalists have fought against […]
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The National Commission for the State Regulation of Communication and Informatization has reduced the inter-operator tariff. The NCCIR press service reports. From July 1, 2021, market participants will pay 7 kopecks per minute of outgoing call for a local call and 10 kopecks for long distance. Moreover, from January 1, 2022, rates will reduce to […]
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Shares of cruise company Royal Caribbean, which decreased by 57% since the beginning of the year, rose for the last quarter and closed with an increase of 10% to $ 57.31 per share on Monday after the publication of the financial results of the second quarter. Investor`s optimism is based on Royal Caribbean management’s statements […]
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Federal Court of the United States filed a criminal charge to a large bank Wilmington Trust Corp. Four former heads of Wilmington Trust Corp. – David Gibson, Robert VA Harrah, William North and Kevin Rakowski are accused of fraud. Professor of the Delaware University – Charles Elson said that it would be unusual criminal proceeding […]
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The decision of the Constitutional Court violates Ukraine’s obligations to Western creditors. This was reported by the Ministry of Finance with reference to the statement of the head of the department Serhiy Marchenko. He addressed to the assessments of the World Bank management regarding the decision of the Constitutional Court on the officials’ e-declarations. “They […]
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