The IUF-affiliated National Union of Workers has signed an agreement at the Asahi-owned bottled water factory in Albury-Wodonga following a long campaign to bring the company to negotiate the creation of permanent jobs for the many workers stuck in casual employment.
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Asahi is to start producing its Super Dry beer brand in Europe, the brewer's president has told reporters.
Super Dry will begin production at Asahi's Padua factory in the north of Italy, one of the brewing assets it acquired from SABMiller last year, Akiyoshi Koji told Bloomberg in an interview last week. The company will start selling Super Dry in Italy and the UK from January, Koji said.
"I tried the beer there before production began, and the taste was the same as in Japan," Koji said in Tokyo.
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On July 21, the Asahi Shimbun revealed that workers employed by a contractor at the Tokyo Electric Power Company’s stricken Fukishima nuclear plant were ordered to wrap with lead the dosimeters which register their radiation exposure in order to allow them to continue working beyond the danger threshold. In principle, workers exposed to more than ...
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In a U-turn in its China strategy, PepsiCo has announced plans to sell its shares in its bottling operations to Tingyi-Asahi Beverages (TAB) in return for a stake in TAB. TAB would become PepsiCo’s franchise bottler in China. The move comes after PepsiCo’s bottling operations in China had been loss-making for 2 consecutive years, and ...
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