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In the 1980s, continues Governale, the heroin business moved the Mafia’s focus to the cities. “But it is the ties to the land that bind the members of the Mafia syndicates together, even when they have spread their tentacles as far as the US, Canada and Australia. They have an extraordinary quasi-religious sense of belonging,” he says. “If they were simple organised-crime organisations, we would have beaten them.” The Italian word for Mafia clan is cosca, meaning artichoke heart, he explains. “Because the Mafia is like an artichoke. All leaves link to the heart.”

Stone Mill was started in 1979 as an ironworks manufacturer during an earlier oil boom. Daneen's parents — farmers and entrepreneurs Ambrose and Charlotte Hoff — still carry the titles of chief executive officer and chief financial officer, respectively.

Over the course of the next seven hours, at multiple locations, we consumed a considerable, perhaps unhealthful, amount of salmiakki. I tasted brittle black tokens strong enough to make my eyes water. Annala happily crunched several at once, as if he’d just plucked his favorite bits from a sack of trail mix, announcing, “It’s like eating iron!” We drank shots of salty-licorice vodka, a popular spirit throughout Scandinavia. (In “The Nordic Cookbook” the Swedish chef Magnus Nilsson, whose restaurant Faviken Magasinet is an internationally lauded purveyor of New Nordic cuisine, writes about teenage friends making bootleg versions of the stuff by packing salty licorice into a three-quarter-filled bottle of vodka and running it through the dishwasher.)

NRF’s numbers are based on data from the U.S. Census Bureau, which released overall October sales – including automobiles, gasoline and restaurants – were up 0.8 percent seasonally adjusted from September and 4.6 percent above October 2017.

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Gaining ground among the local community might take time but, when it comes to Hong Kong’s plastic prognosis, Thornburrow is optimistic. “It’ll get better. Especially in the last few years, there have been a lot of advocates for zero waste,” she says, name-checking fellow Hongkongers Fanny Moritz of No!w No Waste, Hannah Chung of The Zero Waste Challenge, and Lisa Odell, who founded Plastic-Free HK. Many of the most prominent campaigners are women who are creatively taking on waste and influencing others through talks and workshops, while documenting their own progress via social media.

A Bon o Bon is a milk-chocolate shell over a crisp wafer filled with a flavored cream. Every day, factories in Argentina, Mexico and Brazil produce 3,000 of the sweet treats every minute, and 70 percent of production is exported throughout the world. In 1989, the brand helped establish Sweetness Week in Argentina, a clever marketing campaign that encourages candy lovers to exchange confections for kisses. It worked: Candy sales in Argentina rise about 20 percent for a week every July. The candy’s tagline? ‘‘Where there is emotion, there is a Bon o Bon.’’

"Let's invent a machine that looks like an automatic wine preserver, but actually rolls joints," says Otto.

The median restaurant startup cost was $375,000. This equates to a median cost of $113 per square foot, or $3,586 per seat. Many factors affected cost including remodel vs. new construction, free standing building vs. tenant space, and whether the restaurant was full service, limited service, bar or tavern, catering business, or takeout and delivery.

SP Thermoforming, the North American brand of UK-based Riverside Medical Packaging. Ltd., introduced a line of flexible and rigid blister thermoforming machines featuring a potentially game-changing concept: carousel design. A departure from linear, meters-long chain-pulled thermoformers, the SP Series performs all necessary functions via a rotating drum through its radial workstations.

In a globalised industry, the Mafia’s reach extends beyond Italy’s borders, affecting the path of food to dinner tables around the world. Often the methods remain old-school: bribery, intimidation, counterfeiting and extortion. But the cartels have also developed white-collar expertise in infiltrating the local councils and committees that award tenders and subsidies.

Some of the key players in the global powder packing machine market are Nichrome Packaging Solutions, Ipk packaging, Shivalaya Machinery Manufacturing Company, Viking Masek Global Packaging Technologies etc. Key players are increasing their production capacity and launching new products to obtain the new customers.