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Articles in March, 2005 issue of Food & Drug Packaging

• Chiquita Brands International is buying Fresh Express, the leading brand of packaged salads, from Performance Food Group Co. for $855 million in cash
• Hershey may lose 'foods' from name
• Foam dispenser tops new P&G kids' soap
• Imaje, a manufacturer of coding and marking solutions, recently acquired Fas-Co Hi Res. Div., based in Chandler, Ariz
• Kimberly-Clark and Procter & Gamble are introducing lines of children's toiletries under their Huggies and Pampers brands, respectively
• Continuing its moves into generic drugs, Novartis has announced plans to buy German pharmaceutical manufacturer Hexal and Eon Labs, Hexal's U.S. subsidiary, for $8.4 billion in cash
• Coke revamps Powerade bottle
• Reducing the risk of artwork errors: An interview with David Perlis, director of technology Global Vision Inc
• CCL Container
• Printer-applicator has several options
• Coke charges rival with package poaching
• Guelph Food Technology Centre
• RFID, other technologies on tap at Interphex: Rudy Giuliani is among the keynote speakers as the trade show offers several new programs this year
  by Graham Wiemer
• TricorBraun
• Rockwell helps wrap up packaging line optimization
• Modular printers feature: increased flexibility
• Europe changes regulations for food packaging materials
  by George Misko
• New energy drink can size: 11.9 ounces
• Anderson Packaging
• 1.1 million square feet—and every foot counts: Revlon's plant in Oxford, N.C., has to carry most of the load for the company's production worldwide
• To market, to market: new attention-grabbers for ready-to-drink beverages: from healthy to 'exhilarating,' new ready-to-drink packaging brings convenience and pizazz to consumers
  by William Makely
• Print speeds, resolution offer several choices
• National Association of Container Distributors
• Checkpoint Systems Inc
• Printing advances, structural improvements elevate flexible packaging: winners of FPA's competition exemplify the industry's best technical innovations for foods, beverages, medical items and personal care products
  by Graham Wiemer
• The 'Big Squeeze'
  by Mona Doyle
• Between the tortoise and the hare
  by Lisa McTigue Pierce
• Sara Lee
• Supplement uses aluminum bottle
• Packaging helps Revlon bring it all together; a combination of innovation and standardized efficiency helps Revlon's packaging maintain its "confident, sexy" style
  by Pan Demetrakakes
• Labeler incorporates RFID at point of shipping
• Conference to examine how packaging sells
• Perdue zips up poultry strips
• Power Engineers Inc., which offers multidiscipline engineering services, has acquired ATEC, a custom equipment design and fabrication company in Pocatello, Idaho
• Encode and apply system handles RFID
• The new robot: fast, flexible, functional and affordable: enhanced vision and software technologies continue to boost production efficiencies for pick-and-place robotics
  by Joanna Cosgrove
• Corrections
• Kraft Foods
• Making a cartoner fast and flexible
• Chinese beer uses P-S in-line labels
• Roberts PolyPro Inc
• Latin flavors and aromas are here to stay: the growing Hispanic population of the United States influences the country's eating habits
• RFID tag encoding during application
• 100% Recycled Paperboard Alliance
• 2005 Ad
• Diabetes device has six needles inside
• Multivac Inc
• Label options require minimal changeover
• RFID reluctance Rx: look at the long term: it may be hard to make the case for an ROI on RFID, but forward-thinking companies will find a way to do so
  by Pan Demetrakakes
• Film/foam helps preserve; temperature
• BlueStar held a three day RFID Today Summit in January, during which its partner, SATO America, offered the only full RFID certification training on SATO RFID products to qualified value added resellers