Beverage: Page 163

Closures

Wine packaging pops a toast to new closures

Some sparkling wines are shedding corks for crown caps and other closures. These changes come on top of the category’s more playful labels and new packaging formats.

January 8, 2010

Closures

Wegmans: Market savvy and co-packing lift private label

Northeast grocer delivers products that resonate with its customers by understanding trends and nurturing effective supply chain relationships.

January 7, 2010

Coding, Printing & Labeling

They're baaack: Consumer group wants food label changed...again

Ah, the food label, the Great Crossroads, the Window into the American Soul, where contemporary issues relating to diet and health are revealed and battled over, a town square where the features the food industry wants to tout and consumers care about are trumpeted or whispered about, with government agencies looking over everyone’s shoulder.

January 7, 2010

Plastics/resins

Belgian brewer believes in PET barrier bottles

Belgian brewer believes in PET barrier bottles Belgium-based Martens Brewery is using stretch blow-molded, barrier-coated PET bottles to package beers in three sizes: 0.5-L, 0.66-L, and 1-L.

January 7, 2010

Sustainable Packaging

S&P companies reporting on sustainability jumps by more than 33%, report shows

Despite 2009’s dismal economy, nearly all S&P 100 companies have begun to provide sustainability information, with many offering performance data, to the public.

January 7, 2010

Beverage

Upscale cues signal premium vodka for Sam's Club's Member's Mark

Premium and ultra-premium brands have been important drivers in the growing vodka category.

January 7, 2010

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Labeling revisions take aim against medication errors

The U.S. Pharmacopeia proposes revisions to ferrules and cap overseal labeling.

January 6, 2010

Sustainability

Canadian spring-water company takes the 100% rPET plunge

Following years of R&D, Naya Water becomes the first bottler of still water to employ a 100% recycled PET container.

January 6, 2010

Dairy

New sales possibilities may lurk in 'moments of consumption'

Food and beverage marketers in mature product categories are finding success with packaging formats that increase product-usage occasions.

December 21, 2009

Flexibles

Sales heating up with microwave packaging

Freedonia report says this packaging format will enjoy healthy gains over the next four years. Its convenience benefits and related new technologies attract busy consumers.

December 18, 2009

Beverage

Gatorade looking to add muscle in 2010

Product and packaging moves are at the starting line for the company, which apparently plans to continue with its much-debated G logo.

December 17, 2009

Recycling

Nestle Waters launches next-generation 9.3-g Eco-Shape bottle

Weighing 25% less than the company’s original Eco-Shape bottle, a new package design from Nestlé Waters will help the company exceed its sustainability goals.

December 17, 2009