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(Bloomberg) -- Carlsberg A/S has seen the future of the beer bottle, and it's made of paper. Carlsberg has also stopped using plastic rings, commonly associated with marine pollution, to hold its six-pack aluminum cans, instead using drops of glue to bind the beers. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Carlsberg A/S has seen the future of the beer bottle, and it's made of paper. The Danish brewer is presenting two research prototype bottles made from wood fiber and lined with a polymer barrier at the World Mayors Summit in Copenhagen Friday. [Extracted from the article]

Shoppers Are Clinging to Their Printed Receipts A survey of consumers conducted for a group tied to the paper industry found more than three quarters of U.S. shoppers preferred to walk away with a slip of paper, not a copy sent to an email. Selfe's Chicago-based group, which is affiliated with Two Sides North America, a paper and graphic industry association, focused on the threat of identity theft for emailed receipts. [Extracted from the article]

Commission ruling nixes duties that inflated newsprint prices An independent U.S. federal agency ruled that Canadian paper imports don't hurt American producers, delivering a surprise decision that eliminates tariffs that had raised prices and squeezed margins at struggling newspapers. [Extracted from the article]

Newsprint prices are rising amid duties on Canadian imports The U.S. Commerce Department contributed to the surge in newsprint prices this year when it slapped duties as high as 22 percent on imports of Canadian uncoated groundwood paper. While the duties haven't attracted the same level of attention as Trump's tariffs on Chinese goods and global metal imports, they encapsulate the burden U.S. trade policies can impose on American businesses. [Extracted from the article]

Packaging giant could go direct to Smurfit shareholders: BMO International Paper will probably first submit a formal bid to Smurfit and go straight to shareholders if the Irish company's board doesn't respond or seem willing to negotiate, said Chip Dillon, an analyst at Vertical Research Partners. [Extracted from the article]

Under the terms of the revised bid, Smurfit shareholders would receive 25.25 euros in cash and 0.3028 new shares of International Paper stock for each Smurfit share they held. This year, there have been more than 40 cardboard-packaging and paper-product deals, including the bid for Smurfit, according to the Bloomberg data. [Extracted from the article]

Packaging industry valuations rise amid online shopping boom "All these public company CEOs want to be the biggest and leave a legacy", the CEO of Vienna-based paper maker Prinzhorn Holding GmbH said in an interview. [Extracted from the article]

Approach from no. 1 packaging company "undervalues" Smurfit Smurfit shares closed at 33.86 euros in Dublin, giving the company a market value of 8 billion euros. [Extracted from the article]

Japan start-up makes water- and tree-free paper from limestone Nobuyoshi Yamasaki's venture TBM Co. makes paper from limestone, a rock it proclaims is "almost inexhaustible." "I want to end my life as an entrepreneur by creating a company that will last for hundreds of years", says Yamasaki, a former used car salesman who left school at 15 and began his career as a carpenter. [Extracted from the article]

Taiwan's paper shares outperform Apple suppliers this year Taiwan's paper and pulp index has climbed 19 percent so far this year, compared with a 14 percent gain in the biggest 10 suppliers to Apple Inc., including iPhone maker Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. [Extracted from the article]

To contact Bloomberg News staff for this story:Feifei Shen in Beijing at fshen11@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story:Reed Landberg at landberg@bloomberg.netIain Wilson, Abhay Singh Attribution Reed Landberg: editor responsible Iain Wilson: editor Feifei Shen: by reporter Abhay Singh: editor. [Extracted from the article]

Baroni and Kelly complain N.J. governor withheld documents Baroni, the former deputy executive director of the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, was indicted with Kelly, Christie's ex-deputy chief of staff. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Jack Ma's Hong Kong Paper Run Isn't About Math: Gadfly Among a flurry of deals in 2014, Ma's Alibaba bought control of a Hong Kong movie and TV producer that it renamed Alibaba Pictures. Ma has shaken up and reinvigorated businesses from retail to banking to fund management to logistics in China. [Extracted from the article]

Bugun, Millet follow front page model of pro-government media Two Turkish newspapers known recently for fierce opposition to the policies of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the nation's ruling administration have turned pro-government overnight after their management was seized by a prosecutor earlier this week. [Extracted from the article]

To contact the reporter on this story:Chong Pooi Koon in Kuala Lumpur at +60-3-2302-7854 orpchong17@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story:Shamim Adam at +60-3-2302-7865 orsadam2@bloomberg.netRosalind Mathieson Attribution Rosalind Mathieson: editor Chong Pooi Koon: by reporter Shamim Adam: editor responsible. [Extracted from the article]

Federal Reserve officials often behave as if they have a mandate to take financial stability into account when they make interest-rate decisions, according to a research paper co-authored by Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren. "When it comes to financial instability concerns, not only do FOMC meeting participants talk the talk, but they also walk the walk", it added, referring to the policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee. [Extracted from the article]

To contact the reporter on this story: Mark Deen in Brussels at markdeen@bloomberg.net The Greek government presented euro-area finance chiefs with a paper as the basis for an agreement to resolve a standoff over aid, Austrian Finance Minister Hans Joerg Schelling said. Ministers will now study the Greek paper, which arrived "three minutes ago", to see whether it meets the terms of creditors, he told reporters in Brussels Thursday as he arrived for the fourth meeting of his euro-area counterparts in a week. [Extracted from the article]

U.S. paper imports from certain Chinese and Indonesian producers could cost more than twice as much because of duties to offset subsidies, according to initial estimates by the U.S. Department of Commerce. In 2014, the U.S. imported $54.1 million of uncoated paper from China and $200 million from Indonesia, the Department of Commerce said. [Extracted from the article]

Macquarie Group analysts on Monday lowered 2015-2017 earnings estimates for International Paper, KapStone Paper & Packaging Corp., Rock-Tenn Co. and Packaging Corp. of America. "It's hard for us to get excited about any containerboard stock at present as we see risk that margins (and quite possibly earnings excluding M&A) may have already peaked this cycle", Macquarie analysts led by Al Kabili wrote in a note to clients. Though the earnings impact for International Paper, Packaging Corp. and Rock-Tenn will be modest, Jefferies expects sentiment to remain negative until inventory returns to a more normalized level. [Extracted from the article]

Britons' falling inflation expectations need to be monitored carefully by the Bank of England as they could pose a risk to policy makers' 2 percent target, according to a staff paper. Over the past 12 months, surveys of inflation expectations one year ahead have fallen between 0.4 and 0.9 percentage points, according to analysis by the economists. [Extracted from the article]

Shred-it was established in 1988 as one of the first paper shredding companies in the world, according to its website. Shred-it today provides document destruction services to more than 400,000 customers in 18 different countries with a fleet of more than 2,400 trucks, the Oakville, Ontario-based company said in a Tuesday filing with regulators. Shred-it has expanded through acquisitions, including last year's purchase of Iron Mountain's international secure shredding business in the U.K., Ireland and Australia and its combination with Cincinnati-based Cintas Corp.'s document shredding business. [Extracted from the article]

Sleep Country Canada Holdings Inc., the nation's largest mattress retailer, filed documents with Canadian regulators for an initial public offering on the Toronto Stock Exchange. The IPO is being led by Toronto-Dominion Bank and Bank of Montreal. [Extracted from the article]

To contact the reporter on this story: Mark Deen in Paris at markdeen@bloomberg.net Sapin followed the European Commission in dismissing remarks made by Greek officials on Wednesday that suggested a solution is close. [Extracted from the article]

To contact the reporters on this story: Kartikay Mehrotra in New Delhi at kmehrotra2@bloomberg.net; Debjit Chakraborty in New Delhi at dchakrabor10@bloomberg.net The men were detained in New Delhi after a night-time police sting operation at the Oil Ministry on Feb. 17 detected the theft. [Extracted from the article]

The U.S. moved to improve Internet access in Sudan as the country's authorities defended their closing of more than a dozen newspapers on national-security grounds. Booth said that the U.S. made similar regulatory changes for export of communications hardware to Iran in 2013 and more recently to Cuba. [Extracted from the article]

Trian Fund Management LP, the activist investor advocating a breakup of DuPont Co., is preparing to publish a new strategy paper for the chemical company after failing to reach an agreement over demands for four board seats. "DuPont has basically been doing what Trian wanted, so the case for them gets tougher and tougher", Kevin Walkush, who helps manage $5.4 billion including DuPont shares in the Jensen Quality Growth Fund, said by phone Tuesday from Lake Oswego, Oregon. DuPont's new board choices were popular with investors, increasing pressure on Trian to bolster its case, said Jim Sheehan, an analyst at Suntrust Robinson Humphrey Inc. [Extracted from the article]

Apple Daily and the Hong Kong Economic Journal cited unidentified bank customers as saying that they took advantage of the mistake yesterday evening. One person cited by Apple Daily reported purchasing the Swiss currency at HK8.266 per franc when the market rate was in the area of HK$8.80 to HK$9. [Extracted from the article]

Ernst & Young Hong Kong was ordered to give the city's Securities and Futures Commission audit papers for a Chinese water treatment company that the accounting firm said it couldn't because of Chinese laws. The SFC sued EY after it failed to provide the records, with the audit firm claiming it was prevented from doing so by Chinese secrecy laws. [Extracted from the article]