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By John Penhallow, Contributing Editor
April 10, 2013
If the future looks bleak for you, take comfort in the fact that it could be worse. You might for example be the organizer of Ipex, which used to be billed (unofficially) as Britain’s answer to Dusseldorf-based Interpack. The German packaging s…
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By John Penhallow, Contributing Editor
March 13, 2013
Several years ago, a number of cases of Bovine spongiform encephalopathy or “Mad Cow Disease” were diagnosed in England and several other European countries. Beef sales nosedived, and there was an export ban covering all countries where t…
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January 23, 2013
Many European countries, most notably Germany and Britain, seem to have an almost pathological fear of migration. Not the kind that has boat people landing in quiet creeks (though lots of people are afraid of that too), but the migration of nasty che…
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By John Penhallow, Contributing Editor
November 29, 2012
Rako, one of Germany’s top label and packaging converters, is back in the news again. In September of this year they announced that they had bought no less than five…
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By John Penhallow
October 9, 2012
Last month’s Narrow Web Europe column reported on European trade shows, several of which are struggling. Prospects for the UK-based Ipex show, coming up in 2014, took a knock when HP announced that it would not take part. Now comes the double-w…
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By John Penhallow, Contributing Editor
September 1, 2012
If this column frequently reports on wine labeling it is not because the product interests your correspondent (although it does). Wine labels are very big business in Europe, which produces 20 billion bottles of the stuff (or 60% of total world consu…
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By John Penhallow
July 10, 2012
Belarus is not the easiest European country to do business in
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By John Penhallow
May 22, 2012
Between raw material price hikes and stagnant European demand, not many labelstock manufacturers are making really good money at the moment. Meet the exception: Herma, based in Germany, which has just announced record 2011 sales of €237 million.…
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By John Penhallow
April 19, 2012
The trouble with nanotechnology is that even some moderately intelligent people like your correspondent don’t really understand it.
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By John Penhallow
March 8, 2012
The Manroland saga continues to make headlines in the European press. The German press manufacturer, until recently a world leader, filed for bankruptcy in late 2011. Its three production plants, all in Germany, have been offered for sale separately,…
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By John Penhallow
January 18, 2012
“Too big to fail” was what they said about Heidelberg, when Europe’s biggest print machinery manufacturer ran out of cash in 2009. The German government, and the banks, duly dipped into their pockets and the patient recovered (and p…
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October 4, 2011
The strength of the alpine franc poses challenges for Swiss manufacturers.
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September 8, 2011
Malt beverage growth in Russia, plus reports of label industry movement in Turkey, Egypt and France.
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July 12, 2011
Paper manufacturers might not be making a killing after all.
Some are pointing to China’s demand as a top reason for price hikes.
It is no news to anyone in the label business that raw mat…
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May 24, 2011
The time is fast coming when we will all have to learn a little more about the geography of China. Most of us could probably locate Hong Kong and Beijing, give or take a few hundred miles, but what about Jiaxing in Zheijiang province? Do I see any ha…
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