Sustainability, efficiency and product safety were among the top issues addressed at PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2017, which took place Sept. 25-27 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
Today’s food marketplace is a bit like the warring factions on HBO’s “Game of Thrones.” All of the parties in this channel-blurred landscape—drugstores, c-stores, dollar stores, grocers, e-tailers, discounters, you name it—are locked in bloody, hand-to-hand combat.
Kingsford Products Co., owner of the Charcoal brand and wholly owned subsidiary of The Clorox Co., Oakland, Calif., reached a multi-year agreement with CBQ, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Carl Buddig & Co., Homewood, Ill., to produce Kingsford’s branded pre-cooked ribs and barbecue entrées.
CHEP, Alpharetta, Ga., teamed up with Next HPP, White Pigeon, Mich., to develop an asset tracking and temperature monitoring system that works in conjunction with Next HPP’s basket and pallet solution.