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Sustainable Packaging
Flexibles
Rigid
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Secondary Packaging
Trends
Beverage
Food
Other Packaged Goods
Flexibles
Pharmaceutical Makers Show Preference for Dedicated Suppliers
Pace Foods, the San Antonio-based salsa producer, has gotten a lot of mileage out of a series of television commercials emphasizing its Tex-Mex heritage and deriding the competition's product for being made "in New York City?!!" In the same vein, Chi-Chi's, Inc., the Mexican restaurant chain headquartered in Louisville, KY, has an amusing TV commercial for its retail-packed salsa in which the ceo of some unnamed competitor asks his managers whether the company should make salsa or oven mitts.
December 31, 1994
Food: Page 411
Secondary Packaging
Making performance paper greener
Mead joins list of papermakers to develop processes permitting recovery of troublesome paper packaging. Repulpable wet-strength board could be a major boost to paper recovery.
December 31, 1994
Beverage
Candy packages get bitter response
Mars Inc., McLean, VA, filed suit in U.S. District Court in Manhattan in early December seeking an order that bars E.J. Brach Corp., Chicago, IL, from selling Brach's redesigned package of Fruit Bunch® candy that bears a close resemblance to Mars' Starburst® fruit chews candy.
December 31, 1994
Flexibles
New News
"We wanted to make sure that if this package was the only communication a consumer got, the product just might sell itself." So says product manager Mark Younce of Jerome Foods in describing what the Barron, WI-based turkey processor wanted from the packaging it designed for a lien extention of The Turkey Store® products.
December 31, 1994
Sustainability
P&G shows source reduction progress at Pack Expo
Cincinnati-based Procter & Gamble has little choice but to continue seeking ways to meet the consumer need for environmentally sensitive packaging the same way it strives to meet other consumer needs.
December 31, 1994
Dairy
New carrier packs high visibility
General MIlls' Yoplait® brand yogurt in 4-oz cups has been switched from four-and eight-count multipack carriers to a six-pack configuration. The change meets a customer need, says Barry Wagoner, public relations manager at the Minneapolis-based company.
December 31, 1994
Bakery/Snack
Food label info accurate, says FDA
Most food marketers use accurate data in the Nutrition Facts panels that began to appear on packages earlier this year. So reported Dr. David Kessler, FDA commissioner, in mid-December about a random sampling of 300 products taken off grocery store shelves.
December 31, 1994
Flexibles
Inventive use of OPP
When the Price Club chain asked the Quebec Division of Toronto-based Daltons Inc. to begin supplying its line of nuts and dried fruits in a high-barrier reclosable package, Daltons agreed.
December 31, 1994
Meat/Poultry/Seafood
Supplier news: Appointments, promotions
Coleman Natural Meats Inc. (Denver, CO): Lee Arst, chief executive officer.
December 31, 1994
Flexibles
Reduced-fat crackers demand flavor protection
Reduced-fat food products continue to be a key weapon in the new-product arsenal at Nabisco Foods Group, Parsippany, NJ. The success of such products often hinges on the quality of the packaging materials that are specified.
November 30, 1994
Sustainability
Versatile vinyl clearly a winner
Innovation played the key role in this year's Vinyl in Packaging Awards competition. Some winners were decidedly "green" as well.
November 30, 1994
Meat/Poultry/Seafood
Supplier news: Domestic acquisitions, agreements
Fisher Container Corp. (Evanston, IL) acquired the assets of Protective Pkg. Co. (Chicago, IL).
November 30, 1994
Coding, Printing & Labeling
Food Label Rules Changes Unlikely, Despite Industry Pressure
Even though there is pressure from within the food industry for modifications aimed at easing restrictions of health claims on food labels, the Food and Drug Administration doesn't appear to be in a mood to make many changes.
November 30, 1994
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