Contract Packaging

'Glimmer' cries out for the designer in each of us to appear

Challenge assumptions, make new mental connections, and give form to your ideas. A new book says designers excel at these skills, and they should be universally adopted.

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Pfizer's pack redesign offers patient benefits, line efficiencies

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Anderson expands package development, clinical trials business

Contract packager sees growth in patient compliance packaging, child-resistant/ senior-friendly packs, and in clinical trials services.

November 18, 2010

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Contract packer creates improved powder packaging

PTI takes single-source responsibility for bottle molding, powder blending, container filling, capping, and labeling of a new, larger bottle for Vagisil.

November 18, 2010

Contract Packaging

Enabling and enhancing targeted innovation

You are a contract packager.

November 18, 2010

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Additional factors driving mergers and acquisitions

Overall economic factors also are contributing to the increase in M&A activity between contract packaging and contract logistics. One critical factor is the expectation of higher taxes.

November 18, 2010

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Moving forward from here

The majority of consumer packaged goods companies have looked to their supply chains to help them through the recent economic downturn.

November 18, 2010

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Study: Economic conditions are pushing companies into distribution network

CPG companies are re-evaluating to find efficiencies and cut costs. Much of the focus is on transportation and warehousing, from changing vendors to resizing facilities.

November 18, 2010

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Companies

November 18, 2010

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Small-character ink-jet printer tackles co-pack challenge

Illinois Growth Enterprises Inc., a contract packager in Rockford, IL, is a nonprofit organization that provides vocational training to people with disabilities and tailors programs to meet individual worker needs.

November 18, 2010

Contract Packaging

Drake wins Children's Art Project contract

The Drake Company, Houston, TX, has been awarded a three-year contract by the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Children’s Art Project (CAP) to produce its greeting card and gift displays, which will house products inspired by the hospital’s pediatric cancer patients network.

November 18, 2010

Contract Packaging

Jacobson to run fifth in-DC co-packing facility for PepsiCo

Consumer packaged goods companies increasingly are positioning their contract packagers inside their distribution centers.

November 18, 2010

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Assessing the ramifications of front-of-pack label

Front-of-pack nutrition labeling is a hot button in the push to improve dietary habits in the U.S. The Food and Drug Administration is expected to issue labeling guidelines soon as part of the Obama Administration’s fight against obesity, which has reached epidemic proportions in this country.

November 18, 2010