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Closures

Sourcing globally, clicking locally

The Body Shop pares down on time needed to research containers by tapping into a global, multivendor online stock container catalog.

August 31, 2000

Bakery/Snack

E-procurement intentions survey: Too many sites? Or too little experience?

Packaging procurement via the Internet is already here for some buyers. But very few have developed enough experience to identify which kinds of sites are going to get their company’s business.

August 31, 2000

Beverage

Preserving collaboration in the age of e-procurement

How General Mills intends to tap Empriva to gain efficiencies while increasing speed to market.

August 31, 2000

Converting equipment

Materials Purchasing: Grocer buys into online shopping

Grocery retailer H.E. Butt Co. procures packaging materials through the INC2inc Internet marketplace. Now it’s persuading its vendors to climb aboard.

August 31, 2000

Conveying & accumulation

Notable web sites

Materials MarketplacesB2BPKG.com (www.b2bpkg.com) is a packaging materials marketplace that allows users to constuct a private catalog of vendors for online procurement.

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Cosmetics/Personal care

Capital Machinery E-sales on Hold

Though business-to-business electronic exchanges may one day make a dent in the packaging marketplace, very little is happening now in the way of point, click and buying of capital equipment online.

August 31, 2000

Dairy

Letters to the editor

Survey on targetI concur with your buying survey responses (www.netsourcingmag.com/articles/04.00/survey.htm)—the majority of people, even Web-savvy packaging professionals, are primarily using the Net to purchase office supplies or basic, stock commodity packaging components with previously qualified vendors—not specified packaging materials—as other surveys have suggested.

August 31, 2000

Bakery/Snack

The Myth of the Single Portal

Some online marketplaces would have you believe that at the end of the day, there will be only one Web site that buyers use for Internet packaging procurement.

August 31, 2000

Closures

A clever strategy for plastic beer bottles (sidebar)

Meanwhile, at Miller Brewing

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Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

A clever strategy for plastic beer bottles

Michigan Brewing sees great potential for beer in plastic when the target market is tightly focused. Custom-labeled bottles for a casino, for instance, have found a receptive audience.

August 31, 2000

Coding, Printing & Labeling

'No-label' look reflects purity of product

Global Balance Co. switches from a glass jar to an HDPE tube for consumer benefits, vastly improving product sales.

August 31, 2000

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Battle brewing over child-resistant caps

The Consumer Product Safety Commission is considering mandating child-resistant closures for cosmetics, cleaning solvents and auto products, among others.

August 31, 2000