Cosmetics/Personal care

Baby care packaging attracts consumers, but environmental concerns persist

Packaging plays crucial role in building product sales, but the use of plastics may limit market growth.

February 1, 2019

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Containers

Reusable PET jar for skin balm

Family-run skincare specialist Chuckling Goat of the UK is using the 125-mL PET Clip Jar for its new Super Sensitive Skin Balm, benefitting from the jar’s combination of aesthetic appeal and practicality.

February 1, 2019

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

The power of packaging and the right price point revealed

Egg roll producer Van’s Kitchen updates its packaging to more accurately reflect the quality of the product inside and raises its price point, resulting in an 11% increase in sales.

February 1, 2019

Sustainability

Clean, green design for ‘microdrink’ packaging

Kvell puts sustainable and sleek package design at the forefront when developing its waterdrop microdrink, a 5-g cube of powdered health and wellness ingredients that dissolves in water.

January 31, 2019

Sustainable Packaging

McCormick: Not just doing well, but doing good

Michael Okoroafor, VP, Global Sustainability & Packaging Innovation for McCormick & Co., shares insights on the company’s goals and strategies around reducing the carbon footprint of its packaging.

January 30, 2019

Prepared Foods

Yves Veggie Cuisine’s brand refresh set to debut

Plant-based meals and snacks in new packaging and logo coming to Walmart, Whole Foods, and grocery store shelves.

January 29, 2019

Prepared Foods

Adapting to new retail realities

Robby Martin, Senior Engineering Project Manager for Bush Brothers & Company, discusses how the 110-year-old company is learning to become comfortable with a lower level of certainty as it innovates to meet changing consumer purchasing trends.

January 29, 2019

Sustainability

Printed ingredients could disrupt the beverage category

California-based company Smart Cups releases a line of energy drinks, with microencapsulated ingredients printed on the bottom of a disposable cup that are activated with water.

January 28, 2019

Sustainability

The case for rPET wine bottles

Santiago Navarro, CEO and Co-Founder of London-based Delivering Happiness Ltd., trading as Garçon Wines, discusses why the company chose PET, and in particular recycled PET, for its award-winning Flat Wine Bottle for e-commerce.

January 26, 2019

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

New filler/sealer provides flexibility for hotel cosmetics

German hotel toiletries supplier ADA Cosmetic GmbH replaces an aging filler/sealer with one that provides maximum flexibility for different package formats and quick changeover.

January 24, 2019

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Co-packer, brand owners toast success of wine in a can

Canned wine takes off for co-packer Free Flow Wines after it adds a canning line. Also getting a boost are customers Essentially Geared and Foley Family Wines.

January 23, 2019

Containers

Corona Light gets its own visual voice

A redesign for Corona Light creates a point of difference from the Extra master brand and brings a fresh, modern personality even while retaining ‘old school’ brand equities.

January 21, 2019

Labels

Coke explores printed electronics

A recent campaign by Coca-Cola Central and Eastern Europe, though limited in scope, bears watching because it involves an intriguing use of printed electronics.

January 21, 2019