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Kofola- Hoop , a company operating in Czech Republic, Poland, and Slovakia, producer of non-carbonated and carbonated drinks, juices and water won the Water Innovation award for best childrens’ concept at the Global Bottled Water conference held in Wiesbaden in September with their Jupic Aqua brand of flavoured water.

Heineken N.V. announced today that it will acquire Drinks Union in the Czech Republic. The transaction will strengthen Heineken’s number 3 position in the market, and gives the company a market share of 12% and a total domestic volume of more than 1.9 million hectolitres.

EskoArtwork, the world leader in packaging pre-production solutions and market leader in digital finishing systems for packaging, signs and displays announces the opening of its new Kongsberg table manufacturing facility in Brno, Czech Republic, supporting manufacturing efforts in Kongsberg, Norway.

Disturbances originating in the US sub-prime mortgage market have widened to affect other markets, but the fundamentals for the EU8+2 are broadly unchanged, although the level of uncertainty has risen.

Troubles in the credit markets are not dampening corporate plans for new foreign direct investments, says the first detailed survey of top executives conducted since the sub-prime crisis began this summer.

A rail strike and snow storms marked the start of BRAU Beviale 2007 in the Exhibition Centre Nuremberg (14-16 November), but this did not deter the 34,456* trade visitors (2006: 36,260*) at this year’s most important capital goods exhibition for the beverage industry. The share of international visitors rose in both percentage and absolute terms. 28 % came mainly from Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Russia, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, France, Great Britain, Italy and other growth markets in Central Eastern and Eastern Europe to source information about beverage raw materials, technologies, logistics and marketing from the 1,416* exhibitors (2006: 1,437*) – almost 40 % of them international.

Maspex Wadowice, Poland, chose a special promotion for their juice and nectar brand “Kubus”: more than 40 different Twist-Off closure designs are printed with all relevant characters of “Shrek” - just in time for the launch of the new movie.

The 8th Moscow International Exhibition “Pharmtech – Technologies of Pharmaceutical Industry 2006” will take place in Expocentr from the 20th to the 23rd November 2006. This is the only specialised event in Russia and CIS dedicated to pharmaceuticals production. For the first time the exhibition will be held in a new venue, modern architecture and developed infrastructure of which provide for holding events up to the highest standards.

With the recent addition of two HyPET 300 systems, Retal Industries, a major packaging and component supplier in Russia and Eastern Europe, has extended its reliance on Husky Injection Molding Systems. From the initial machine supplied to their plant in the Czech Republic in 1994, followed in 1999 by the first machine supplied to Russia, Retal Industries has installed a total of 69 Husky systems to date. The company designated Husky as the main supplier for their PET preform systems more than five years ago.