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Consumer packaged goods

Bid for tighter olive oil standards

The California Olive Oil Council asked USDA to tighten its grading standards for olive oil to prevent domestic and foreign producers from blending lower grade olive oil into what can be sold in the United States as “extra virgin” olive oil.

October 31, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Cost of materials causing shifts

Survey shows that manufacturers are indeed feeling the effects of cost increases in packaging materials. Changing specs and suppliers are two remedies.

October 31, 2004

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Smarter packaging

RFID and security technology, especially authenticating methods, headlined a recent Smart Packaging conference outside Chicago.

October 31, 2004

Beverage

Reshaping Packaging's 'Silent Salesperson' Role

Clutter at retail, wider international markets, and evolving brand strategies lift packaging’s importance in making the sale.

October 31, 2004

Cosmetics/Personal care

Panel Members (sidebar)

Liz Grubow is vice president and group creative director, Beauty Group for the Cincinnati-based design agency LPK (Libby Perszyck Kathman).

October 31, 2004

Secondary Packaging

Five Packaging Tactics Deliver 'Show Biz' at Retail

Bulk displays and more intense messaging are among the tools that gain sales in retail outlets.

October 31, 2004

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

'Best-Practice' Techniques Deliver Shelf Impact

Here are five packaging strategies used today to help create the product-to-shopper connection that drives brand sales.

October 31, 2004

Flexibles

Shrink-sleeve label's graphics position Galliker's new dairy beverage (sidebar)

Full-body shrink labels have transformed dairy packaging, and the Galliker Dairy Co., Johnstown, PA, is using the tactic to introduce Shake, its new dairy-based beverage.

October 31, 2004

Meat/Poultry/Seafood

Hologram's cool graphics, cooling effect improve fish package (sidebar)

A hologram on its shippers helps the Honolulu Fish Co. answer two challenges in marketing fresh fish. The first is to establish a brand identity, and the second to keep fish as fresh as possible while it is air freighted from Hawaii to the mainland.

October 31, 2004

Secondary Packaging

Finger paint kit 'stands up' at retailer's command (sidebar)

Not only do packagers have to develop packages for specific distribution channels. Increasingly, they have to develop packages for specific retailers.

October 31, 2004

Secondary Packaging

Students and industry learn at MSU

The School of Packaging at Michigan State gives its students a thorough overview of the packaging profession while also meeting CPG companies’ ongoing research needs.

October 31, 2004

Case erect/seal

Training to train

PMMI’s Certified Trainer Program has evolved into a solid two-day course in which packaging machinery OEMs and their customers are finding real value.

October 31, 2004