Contract Packaging

Morton seasons dowdy category's profile

Venerable salt marketer is moving its specialty salts into new packaging that leverages equities of the iconic ‘mother’ brand but also gives each new product its own personality.

January 10, 2007

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Sustainability

CPG companies hunt for warehouse club treasure

Success in packaging for the warehouse clubs requires innovation and an understanding of the needs of this unique channel.

January 10, 2007

Sustainable Packaging

Sustainable practices go mainstream

With 60,000 suppliers seeking high marks on the Wal-Mart scorecard, can anyone doubt that sustainable packaging is here to stay?

January 9, 2007

Sustainable Packaging

Sustainability's implications for packaging impact

Just when packaging was making major inroads into the marketing mix, along comes sustainable packaging. While terms such as shelf impact, First Moment of Truth (FMOT), and sustainable packaging are not mutually exclusive, they are not in total alignment either.

January 8, 2007

Sustainable Packaging

FBA, corrugated, and Wal-Mart's packaging scorecard

The Fibre Box Assn.’s Sustainability Committee is working with Wal-Mart to help corrugated manufacturers 'make the grade' on the retailer’s packaging scorecard.

January 3, 2007

Sustainable Packaging

When less is more: Insights to using less packaging

Bob Lilienfeld, who heads Use-less-stuff.com, has championed source reduction as the key to packaging sustainability for more than a decade. Here's his take on overpackaging, the Wal-Mart scorecard, and related topics.

December 21, 2006

Contract Packaging

The Need For Speed

A new study offers advice for leveraging co-packers in ‘quick-changeover' tactics that answer retailer and consumer demands for variation in packaging sizes and formats.

December 19, 2006

Contract Packaging

Club-courting errors

As a packaging consultant to CPG companies, Adalis Packaging Solutions Group (APSG) sees four common pitfalls in efforts to get packaging into club stores.

December 19, 2006

Contract Packaging

Wal-Mart details 'packaging scorecard'

At Pack Expo in November 2006, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. revealed specifics of a “packaging scorecard” to continue its commitment of reducing packaging across its global supply chain by 5% by 2013, helping Wal-Mart and its suppliers improve packaging and conserve resources.

December 19, 2006

Contract Packaging

Co-manufacturer help sambazon forge ahead in low-acid aseptics

California acai marketer taps Aseptic Solutions, which is poised to become a rare U.S. company capable of aseptically filling, low-acid products on a high-speed rotary filler.

December 19, 2006

Contract Packaging

Biomedical Products Marketer Saves Big With High-Tech Aerogel Cartons

Can thermal-insulated containers increase co-packing's value? American Aerogel's containers cut Advanced BioHealing's shipping costs 40%.

December 19, 2006

Contract Packaging

3 Principles For Creating A Successful Relationship.

Base decisions on total cost, share responsibility, and implement performance measures to optimize the results in working with a Contract Packager.

December 19, 2006

Contract Packaging

'Winning ways'--that's the ticket

As I write this letter while clicking back and forth between college football, NFL games, and the baseball playoffs, I can't help but think about the word “winners.” It's a dynamic word with lots of positive meaning.

December 19, 2006