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Packaging

Anheuser-Busch's 100% recycled PET bottle for Guarana Antarctica soft drink in Brazil and smaller can lid diameter in China among global packaging initiatives highlighted in 2012 Global Citizenship Report

AptarGroup's Q1 earnings slip 9% year-over-year to US$40M as record quarterly sales offset by charges related to its European operations optimization plan

Huhtamaki widens Q1 net income to €41.8M from €20.5M in year-ago period, with strong results in foodservice Europe-Asia-Oceania; net sales up 4% to €568.4M, led by 2012 foodservice acquisition in Asia, strength in molded fiber business

Huhtamaki's Senior VP Administration and Legal, Juha Salonen, to retire as of May 1, after 30-year career with company

Bemis' Q1 net income up 12% year-over-year to US$49.3M; net sales down 3.8% to US$1.26B with a 2.5% decline in its US Packaging segment, 6.6% decline in Global Packaging, 3.3% decline in Pressure Sensitive Materials

Chemicals

Olin's Q1 earnings climb 5% year-over-year to US$40.5M as sales climb 22% to US$630M; results include pretax restructuring charges of US$2.3M

Valspar names Cytec Industries' CEO, Shane D. Fleming, to its board of directors

Cabot to close carbon black manufacturing plant at its Port Dickson, Malaysia, facility by end of July

BASF's Q1 earnings fall 17% to €1.4B as better-than-predicted orders for herbicides and fungicides help cushion lower demand for paper and pigment additives

Celanese increases quarterly dividend by 20% to US$0.09/share, payable on May 16

Food, Beverage & Foodservice

Britvic now offering its Robinsons Fruit Shoot Concentrate beverage in Alabama, marking product's entry into US; brand is top kids drink brand in UK, company says

Global gum, cereal bars confectionery industry forecast to reach US$31.9B by 2018 at CAGR of 4.3%, new report states

Global confectionery industry revenue estimated to reach US$176B by 2018, with CAGR of 3% over next five years, according to new report

Grupo Bimbo reports Q1 net majority income of 560M Mexican pesos, down 9.4% from year-ago period; sales total 41.7B pesos, reflecting organic growth of 1.6%

Burger King reports Q1 net earnings of US$35.8M, up from year-ago earnings of US$14.3M, as lower expenses offset lower revenue, weaker same-store sales; revenue down 42% to US$327.7M

Personal & Household Products

Shiseido reduces its planned dividend by 60% to around 20 yen/share, pledges to cut costs to recover from company's first annual net loss in eight years

Shiseido registers 3% year-over-year decline in Japanese cosmetics sales in November 2012, with demand in North and South America continuing to be robust in Q3 2012 but faring poorly in Europe, company says

Orchids Paper's Q1 net income up 23% year-over-year to US$3.1M, net sales up 3% to US$26.6M, achieves record sales levels for total sales, converted product sales

Oriflame Cosmetics reports Q1 interim net earnings of €28M, compared with year-ago earnings of €34.5M, as sales fall 4% to €381.3M

Revlon reports Q1 net loss of US$6.9M, compared with year-ago earnings of US$8.5M, amid charges of US$27.9M related partly to refinancing of company's senior notes: net sales up 0.4% to US$331.9M

Retailing

Forty percent of India's urban Internet users say online activities influence what they buy; number of Internet users in India expected to triple to 330 million by 2016 from 2011, causing digital influence on buying decisions to explode: BCG

Staples unveils solar installation at company's Framingham, Massachusetts, headquarters, its 37th solar array, bringing company's use of solar power to nearly 14 MW across its US operations

Amazon's Q1 earnings fall 37% versus a year ago to US$82M as net sales climb 22% to US$16.07B; company expects year-over-year Q2 sales growth of 13%-26%, earnings of US$10M to loss of US$340M

No credible evidence that Scotland's cigarette display ban will stop young people from smoking, retailers claim; ban set to begin April 29

Shoppers Drug Mart's Q1 earnings rise less than 1% to C$119.5M as revenue climbs 3.8% to C$2.49B, same-store sales rise 2.5%;

Economy

US real GDP rises at annual rate of 2.5% in Q1, according to advance estimate, reflecting positive contributions from personal consumption expenditures, exports, investments: Bureau of Economic Analysis

Canadian real GDP grows 1.8% in 2012 following 2.6% rise in 2011; GDP increases in all provinces except Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick: Statistics Canada

New Zealand's quarterly exports to China surpass exports to Australia for first time in Q1; New Zealand's exports to China rise 32% year-over-year to NZ$2.31B as exports to Australia fall 7.3% to NZ$2.17B

China's leaders say country must reduce financial risks, boost consumption amid signs its economy is losing momentum; Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan have cut 2013 growth forecasts to 7.8%, matching 2012's rate, which was weakest in 13 years

Euro area may have turned corner on its economic woes, say officials, with 'no more major issues in the pipeline,' according to one; although crisis has passed, need to implement tough, unpopular structural retorms remains

Transportation

US net heavy-truck orders have exceeded 20,000 per month since December, indicating increasing demand for trucking services as freight levels rise, say analysts

Philippines' US$6.5B investment in roads, ports, airports remaking country into region's fastest-growing economies; Fitch Ratings promoted country to investment-grade for first time in March

Northern stretch of Illinois River, a key artery for shipping bulk commodities, particularly grains, to Gulf of Mexico ports, expected to be closed for several weeks while flood-damaged lock is repaired

Celedon Group's fiscal Q3 earnings fall 22.8% versus a year ago to US$4.4M as revenue declines 2.4% to US$149.6M; CEO says harsh winter weather affected results

US rail carloads fall 2% year-over-year in week ended April 20 to 276,662, intermodal volume rises 0.6% to 240,698 units; Canadian railroads report 83,540 carloads for week, up 1.2% from a year ago, and 55,564 intermodal units, up 2%: AAR

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