E-Commerce During the Time of Covid-19: Video Highlights from PACK EXPO Connects

See the E-Commerce Jumpstart segment from PACK EXPO Connects 2020, including all the numbers, a deep dive into improving e-commerce packaging for highly breakable stemware, and ISTA discusses Amazon requirements and where to find a testing lab.

Jim ChrzanVP, Content

Nov 16th, 2020

Overview by Jim Chrzan, VP of Content and Brand Development, PMMI Media Group includes latest numbers on growth, store closings, retail sales and grocery deliveries, etc.
E-Commerce design firm tackles highly breakable category--Lennox Stemware Packaging, by Brent Lindberg of Fuseneo. Less material and better results!
ISTA Answers the Most Asked E-commerce Question: How to Start?

PACK EXPO Connects content, including machine demos, Innovation Stages, Trend Chats and editor's Daily Download is all still available here through March 31, 2021.

Fuseneo Inc.

International Safe Transit Association (ISTA)

Global CPGs Kellogg and PepsiCo Grow Grocery E-Commerce During the Pandemic | Emerging Brand E-Commerce Spotlight

E-commerce grocery sales have increased during the pandemic, and the number of consumers ordering online is expected to remain elevated. Both large CPGs and smaller emerging brands are taking steps to meet the growing demand and utilize online retail.

Enercon Earns Certification in Amazon Supplier Network

Enercon Industries Corp. earned certification as a member of the Amazon Packaging Support and Supplier (APASS) network.

Pregis Ever Tec Mailer Recyle

Pregis Invests Over $14 million in New Atlanta Area Manufacturing Facility to Support E-commerce Growth

Paul Palmieri, CEO and co-founder at Tradeswell

What CPG Brands Can Learn from DTCs About Improving Holiday Sales

CPG brands should know winning online is not about staying ahead of new, challenger brands. It’s about anticipating the needs of the market and taking control of their ecosystems.

Top Shelf, the original line of Real Treat cookies, caters to adult flavor palates. The paperboard hexagon design was inspired by honeycombs.

Real Treat Cookies Cater to Adult Tastes and Niche Market Sales

This specialty cookie brand is using Instagramable package design and organic ingredients to position itself as a premier ‘Top Shelf’ treat while finding unique channels to grow market share beyond retail.

Syntegon's checklist for confectionery packaging

Syntegon's checklist for confectionery packaging

Wondering how to select the optimal solution for your specific product and packaging needs? We packed all the important questions for you to consider into a handy Confectionery Packaging Checklist.

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Crocs Selects Bastian Solutions for New Automated DC in Ohio

Casual footwear company Crocs, Inc. partnered with Bastian Solutions to develop a new storage facility and fulfillment center in the Dayton, Ohio area.

Kellogg Says Embracing E-Commerce Helped it Weather the Pandemic

Kellogg says its ecommerce investments over the past two years helped it respond quickly and seize opportunities when lockdowns related to COVID-19 sent online grocery sales to record levels.

Amazon Expands Frustration-Free Packaging Programs to Include Smaller Eligible Product Sizes

The Frustration-Free Packaging Programs Incentive Expansion, announced June 1, 2021 for North America and following later this year in Europe, has expanded its product size range downward, to include ASINs starting as small as 6 x 4 x 0.375 ins.

PepsiCo develops ecommerce-only packages, such as this Doritos 3D variety pack, for some products.

PepsiCo's E-commerce Investments Pay Off in Wake of COVID-19

PepsiCo’s head of global ecommerce shares how its earlier investments in ecommerce helped the CPG giant handle a surge in orders across online channels as consumers shifted to online shopping because of the pandemic.

Packaging Station

New Age Industrial’s #52241 packaging stations are designed to maximize space and offer easy access to packaging supplies needed for shipments on packing lines.

Syntegon's checklist for confectionery packaging

Syntegon's checklist for confectionery packaging

Wondering how to select the optimal solution for your specific product and packaging needs? We packed all the important questions for you to consider into a handy Confectionery Packaging Checklist.

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MassRobotics Publishes Autonomous Mobile Robot Interoperability Standard

MassRobotics, an independent, non-profit center that educates, inspires, and bring robotics initiatives, investments, and companies to life, announces the release of the MassRobotics Interoperability Standard.

Goodpop's New Twin Pops debuted with a packaging redesign.

GoodPop’s Mission: Pledge Good. Do Good. Feel Good.

This good-for-you frozen treat company has refreshed its packaging with a new look that calls attention to its mission to create social and environmental good.

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Ladder Carts

New Age Industrial’s #99555 ladder carts are designed for narrow aisle picking and fulfillment within manual picking operations and feature continuous grip handles.

All a gift recipient needs to do is cut a single taped edge of the shipper, and the OPF corrugated case pops open and lays flat to present the gift inside.

Shipper Plays a Starring Role In Progressive Unboxing Experience

A corrugated shipper’s primary job in e-comm is to get its contents to a consumer’s doorstep intact. But this one is able to do so with a bit of theater and flair.

How B2B can pivot to B2C operations.

The Logistics of Pivoting from B2B to B2C

The pandemic has brought swift surges to e-commerce and D2C sales. How can a traditionally B2B company quickly pivot to the B2C market during these times?

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Packaging Trend Focus: E-commerce Channel Growth is Great Packaging Opportunity

All signs are that the e-commerce market will continue to thrive even after the COVID-19 pandemic is behind us. There is excellent opportunity for operators to find innovative ways to make online packaging both more functional and sustainable.

Beverages are some of the most common package leaks in e-commerce.

The Challenge of Package Design for Liquids in E-commerce

The e-commerce or direct-to-consumer supply chain is particularly challenging for liquid consumer packaged goods. A collaborative effort is working to solve this problem.

TAB Wrapper Tornado Box Wrapper from TAB Industries.

Stretch Wrapper for e-Commerce Packaging

TAB Industries’ TAB Wrapper Tornado Box Wrapper automatically secures small, loose, and low profile parts and products to cardboard backing to create a organized, unitized package that can ship without dunnage or containers.

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Heinz UK Launches Recyclable Paperboard Multipack to Replace LDPE Shrink

The new Heinz Eco-Friendly Sleeve design features a robust and convenient handle that enables consumers to carry multiple cans of Heinz Soups, Beanz, and Pasta products without plastic shrink film.

An exploded view of the Fatty 15 starter kit demonstrates the use of corrugated inserts to safely handle a glass bottle through the many-touchpoint e-comm channel in a compact format without extra space or the need for dunnage.

Subscription D2C Supplement Brand Makes Sustainable Impression at Unboxing

A new-to-science fatty acid supplement promises to improve longevity. Seraphina Therapeutics created a sustainability-minded D2C packaging and unboxing experience to align with and amplify the discovery.

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Sustainability Still a Global Key Packaging Focus, Despite COVID

The packaging industry is in high gear as the pandemic enters year two, searching for innovative solutions to sustainable packaging and e-commerce design demands.

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Covectra: Smart Label and Mobile Authentication

Next Generation Stellaguard brings mobile product authentication to consumers worldwide; combines two methods of simultaneous authentication with serialization and random patterns and numbers of holographic stars.

Lenox’s new red wine stemware package for Amazon comprises two inserts holding six glasses, covered with a paperboard sleeve, and shipped in a corrugated case.

Lenox Optimizes Wine Glass Packaging for Amazon Shipping

A packaging redesign for tableware brand Lenox for its red wine glasses hits the sweet spot, providing both enhanced sustainability and greater product protection for Amazon’s Frustration-Free Packaging requirements.

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Pregis to Open Pennsylvania Manufacturing Facility

Pregis is opening a 300,000 sq ft manufacturing facility in Bethel, Penn., to produce lightweight, recyclable all-paper cushioned mailers to support demand in the Northeastern region of North America.

Cannabis, CBD Sagas About to Get Real

If you have been waiting and hoping for a federal change in law or policy about cannabis and CBD products, it’s OK to start holding your breath now, because real changes are likelier than ever during 2021.

This e-comm play for specialty and value-added proteins like wild-caught fish, free-range poultry, and grass-fed beef uses a striking printed corrugated shipper that’s fully recyclable.

D2C Proteins' Thermal Insulation Sits at the Intersection of E-Comm and Sustainability

This e-comm startup hit the big time only a couple of months ago. A big step in getting there was bolstering its package sustainability profile to better align with its brand positioning.

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Retail and E-Comm: 4 Cannabis Considerations in Uncertain Economic Times

How are brands coping with changes in the market, distribution and consumer behavior?

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COVID Trickle-Down Tied to Potential Corrugated Shortage

The pandemic has pushed e-commerce into overdrive, boosting the demand for corrugated shipping boxes while also slowing down recycling efforts and supply chains, creating a potential problem (or a great opportunity) for the corrugated industry.

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Report: Innovative New Robotics at PACK EXPO Connects

PMMI Media Group editors—covering a virtual event instead of an in-person exposition—divided and conquered to collectively take in as much of PACK EXPO Connects as possible. Here’s what they saw in the robotics category.

Ranpak Survey Reveals E-Commerce Will Rise in 2021

The results of Ranpak Holdings Corp.'s first annual E-Commerce and Packaging Trends Survey shows 67% of Americans plan to do more online shopping in 2021 than in 2020.