Colgate Idles Venezuela Detergent Plant for Lack of Boxes

U.S. consumer goods maker Colgate-Palmolive Co. has halted production at its detergent and dish soap plant in Venezuela because it lacked cardboard boxes to ship products, a union leader said Thursday. The plant in the city of Valencia stopped operations Monday, union representative Carlos Rodriguez said in a telephone interview. Its cardboard provider, Ireland's Smurfit Kappa, halted production in Venezuela last month after government authorities took...

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