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Getting noticed is now packaging mission #1
In today's market, there are more serious packaging developments than the emergence of beverage containers with walls purposefully bent out of shape.
April 30, 1997
Beer: Page 60
Flexibles
Add-on packaging revs up Coors' sales
First things first. Yes, it's a real package. No, it's not actually shipped that way. But when retailers hand-erect the faux carburetor valve covers and insert the tabs into die-cut slots on 24-count multipacks of the new "engine block" package for Coors Light, they've got a clever floor display that has jump-started sales of the brand in a recent promotion, says the Golden, CO, brewer.
April 30, 1997
Recycling
National bottle bill?
Sen. James Jeffords (R-VT) once again has introduced a bill requiring all beer, water and soft drink containers sold in the U.S. to carry a 10ยข deposit.
March 31, 1997
Sustainable Packaging
Life-cycle analysis gains political cachet
The President's Council on Sustainable Development (PCSD), having received a new lease on life, will be pushing ahead with its efforts to proselytize on behalf of "Extended Product Responsibility (EPR)," a concept that has numerous implications for users of packaging.
March 31, 1997
Sustainable Packaging
Designers pick top ten
What will be hot in '97?
February 28, 1997
Secondary Packaging
No uniformity in changeover demands
Almost any way you measure packaging line changeover, the answers from Packaging World readers vary widely. The major agreement is that more changes are being demanded-and less time is available for doing them. However, the strategies for hastening change
February 28, 1997
Beverage
O'Doul's calls phone card label a success
A Christmas holiday promotion involving a special telephone card "label" affixed to the inside of 12-packs of O'Doul's non-alcoholic beer has been called a success by Anheuser-Busch.
February 28, 1997
Filling/capping, liquid & viscous
Ales boast custom bottle, gold-stamped labels
When Portland, OR-based BridgePort Brewing Co. added two new brands to its line of premium ales last month, it used the opportunity to introduce a custom glass bottle for all four ale varieties in the line.
January 31, 1997
Closures
Study confirms bottles affect wine buying
A recent study on American wine purchasing shows that glass wine bottles play a key role in determining which wine is purchased. Marketers considering dropping glass in favor of some other packaging material would do well to analyze the study-perhaps even duplicate it in their own product categories-before making a move.
December 31, 1996
Conveying & accumulation
Multipacks double the ante for bottles
A European brewer is first to offer two-layer multipacks for glass bottles. The tall 24- and 30-packs present more graphic billboard area and permit easier handling for consumers.
December 31, 1996
Sustainability
Plastic beer bottle could be big
Australian brewing giant Carlton United Breweries has high hopes for a barrier beer bottle made of plastic. In the meantime, it's launched a monolayer PET bottle that's causing quite a stir.
December 31, 1996
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Shrink label gives this mule a kick
From Russia by way of the U.K. comes a vodka-based drink called the Smirnoff Mule in a glass bottle with a label that's nearly as exotic as the beverage itself.
December 31, 1996
Beverage
Coke surges ahead with new soft drink
Surge, Coca-Cola USA's "fully loaded citrus soda," hits store shelves across the country this month in both cans and bottles. The 12-oz cans use an EZO wide-mouth end for easy drinkability.
December 31, 1996
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