bosley
- 20 Feb 2004 09:34
Bema
- 20 Oct 2005 10:42
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Hi all,
I can't get the MAM messenger working so please post questions for HQ to the board.
I shall write up the letter Sunday evening and post Monday AM. I won't be about Fri or Sat but i promise to read up and include all genuine contributions from here and FYB.
Bema
- 20 Oct 2005 11:01
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Thanks driver, will do.
Biscuit
- 20 Oct 2005 11:05
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Is it me or could there be a large buyer out there?
bhunt1910
- 20 Oct 2005 11:15
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You mean the one that keeps snapping up the offer at 16.25? - yes - I think so
Now 1:5 @ 16 : 16.5 and 50k v 424k
Biscuit
- 20 Oct 2005 11:19
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That's the chap
Bema
- 20 Oct 2005 11:21
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The "questions for stanelco" thread is now up and running so post there if you need to. I won't mention it here again until any answers come back.
bhunt1910
- 20 Oct 2005 11:59
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Biscuit - he must have heard us talking ??
greekman
- 20 Oct 2005 12:50
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Could be interesting.
Companies fund EU packaging and consumer study
By Ahmed ElAmin
20/10/2005 - In a bid that could help food processors pick the best marketable package for their products, European associations have launched a consumer study to find out their concerns.
Could I suggest, greenseal/starpol and frogpack.
http://www.foodproductiondaily.com/news/ng.asp?n=63351-packaging-waste-functional
bhunt1910
- 20 Oct 2005 13:07
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Wal-Mart Switches to Corn-Based Plastic Packaging
By Harold Brubaker, The Philadelphia Inquirer
Oct. 20--Wal-Mart is going green.
The retail giant, which is also the nation's largest grocery seller, is beginning to switch from petroleum-based to corn-based plastic packaging.
The first substitution, starting Nov. 1, involves 114 million clear-plastic clamshell containers used annually by the retailer for cut fruit, herbs, strawberries and brussels sprouts, Wal-Mart executive Matt Kistler said yesterday at a conference in Philadelphia.
"With this change to packaging made from corn, we will save the equivalent of 800,000 gallons of gasoline and reduce more than 11 million pounds of greenhouse gas emissions," said Kistler, vice president for product development and private brands for the company's Sam's Club division.
"This is a way to make a change positive for the environment and for business," he said at the Sustainable Packaging Forum at the Sheraton Society Hill Hotel.
The adoption of environmentally friendly packaging at Wal-Mart Stores Inc., which has an unparalleled ability to mandate change in the consumer products world, is a huge win for NatureWorks L.L.C., a Minnesota-based division of agricultural commodity giant Cargill Inc.
It comes as high oil and natural gas prices -- the sources for most plastics -- are ratcheting up the cost of plastic materials.
Kistler did not say whether the new plastic costs more or less than the materials it replaces, but he said Wal-Mart expects the price of corn-based plastics to be less volatile than those of petroleum-based plastics.
Snehal Desai, global commercial director for NatureWorks, said the company's plastic -- known as PLA, or polylactic acid -- is competitively priced with petroleum-based plastic, which is commonly used for soda and water bottles.
A big difference between PLA plastic and its petroleum-based competitors -- beyond its origin in an annually renewable resource -- is PLA's ability to be composted in carefully regulated municipal operations. It is also recyclable, like most other plastics.
Containers and packaging accounted for 32 percent of municipal solid wastes by weight in 2003, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
Wal-Mart spokeswoman Tara Stewart said the company, which will feature the packaging in its 3,779 Wal-Mart, Sam's Club and Neighborhood Market stores in the United States, is just beginning to figure out the lifecycle of the new plastics. "We don't have answers for everything yet," she said.
Kistler said the new plastic also will be used to make calling cards and gift cards sold at Wal-Mart for the holidays.
In addition, it will be used for the windows in cake and doughnut boxes, where it provides still another benefit: Because the corn-based plastic "breathes," condensation does not form inside the pastry boxes. Kistler said that during a test, doughnut sales increased.
Small retailers are also getting into the act. Fair Food, which operates a farm stand at Reading Terminal Market selling mostly organic products from local farms, recently switched to biodegradable cellophane bags made from a component of plants and trees.
At $95 for 1,000 bags, including shipping, that's about double the cost of the bags the nonprofit retailer used previously, said manager Ann Karlen.
But environmentally friendly packages are not always more expensive, said Margaret Papadakis, senior buyer of packaging for Starbucks Coffee Co.
The Seattle company will soon introduce new packaging for many of its chocolate candies that eliminates harmful bleached paperboard, uses half the material of the old design, and is expected to save $500,000 a year, she said.
The Philadelphia conference focused on "sustainability," a term that refers not just to a material's ability to be recycled, but also how valuable it remains when it is reused. In plastics, for instance, the goal is to avoid the downward spiral into less valuable products such as park benches.
"Just because a material or package is recyclable doesn't necessarily mean it is sustainable," said David Luttenberger, director of Packaging Strategies Inc., of West Chester, which produced the conference
http://www.rednova.com/news/science/277847/walmart_switches_to_cornbased_plastic_packaging/index.html?source=r_science
I know this is not Starpol - yet
shamona
- 20 Oct 2005 13:35
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Sold out again, will buy on any weakness.
insiderinside
- 20 Oct 2005 13:56
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and there we go - the rampers are liars yet again - no big deal with Walmart for SEO announced this week - time to sell off again soon ?
Bugz
- 20 Oct 2005 14:01
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ii,
No one lied. People speculated. There is a difference. Be accurate.
It'll come.....
bhunt1910
- 20 Oct 2005 14:22
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I am not sure that I understand what is happening today.
There is no great volume, no great sell off, no great buying, no bloody RNS - everything seems to have stagnated - waiting to see what Wilma is going to do perhaps???
Baza
bhunt1910
- 20 Oct 2005 14:40
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......and almost as though it was listening to me - it ticks up. Must try complaining more often !!
Baza
bhunt1910
- 20 Oct 2005 14:43
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497696 shares bought - again - I am sure that I keep on seeing this number of shares or something similar being bought on a daily basis ?? - is that a key number - am I getting paranoid !!!!
Baza
greekman
- 20 Oct 2005 14:44
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Bugz,
Exactly, its in the wording. Well said.
hewittalan6
- 20 Oct 2005 14:44
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No Baza,
You're not getting paranoid, but there are loads of people saying that you are, behind your back!
Alan
bhunt1910
- 20 Oct 2005 14:50
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Tee Hee - time to give it a rest I think - your comment earlier on made me think - I am in this for the long term - yet I watch it on a daily (hourly even) basis.
Pause for thought !!
Baza
hewittalan6
- 20 Oct 2005 14:55
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Me too Baza,
I look at this as a savings pot for my kids, and yet I am completely hooked on the best stockmarket soap opera in years. This really could become a West End knockout, except that an analogy of that kind is bound to invite our friend ii to start on about greek tragedies and whitehall farces.
Back to the pills though, Baza. If a comment I made, made you think then you really don't get out often enough.
Alan