Packaging solutions specialist Payne has extended its range of promotional banner tapes with the launch of a resealable version, which enables a pack to be reclosed following initial opening.
First chopped tomatoes from the United States will debut in shelf stable carton packs
August 20, 2013
Hirzel Canning Co. & Farms, the family-owned and operated company who produces the Dei Fratelli brand, announces the addition of Dei Fratelli Truly Tomatoes to its extensive line of tomato products. The three product varieties include: Petite Cut Tomatoes in a Light Puree; Finely Chopped Tomatoes in a Light Puree with Onion, Carrot and Celery; and Rustic Cut Tomatoes in a Light Puree
Barton Group, Inc. announces Squeezy Straw for licensing
August 19, 2013
Barton Group, Inc. has announced the development of Squeezy Straw™ – a new single-serve dispensing pouch with its own built-in, integral sipping straw.
A clear understanding of evolving consumer behavior helped McLean Design and new client PS Let’s Eat introduce an unfamiliar but über healthy European dairy product called German-style quark to a highly skeptical American market.
Eight O'Clock® Coffee reveals fresh new look, contemporary varieties
August 14, 2013
Eight O'Clock Coffee is stepping up its style with a momentous brand refresh this summer. With modern, sleek red packaging, tasty new varieties, and new consumer communication to be featured on air, online, and on the runway, Eight O'Clock Coffee will be taking to the coffee aisle with a fresh new look this season.
Researchers discover when see-through packaging makes consumers eat more or less
August 14, 2013
You don't have to consume a lot of business news to see transparency as an issue in the food industry. Whether the topic is pink slime in McDonald's burgers, Whole Foods promising to label products with genetically modified ingredients, or IKEA recalling horsemeat-tainted meatballs, the bottom line is that people want to know what they're eating, and they want to be able to see it.
In our industry it looks like a great deal of food and beverage items are opting for pouches, but rigid containers still have a strong market presence.
As this issue of Food & Beverage Packaging counts down the top 50 beverage packagers, it only seems right to toast the beverage innovators of the beer and wine markets for their innovations.
Our definition of sweet changes over time, but our appetite for sweet endures. Recently launched in Argentina to a spectacular reception, new Coca-Cola Life® offers an all-natural, low-calorie cola beverage to those who crave something better.
Nimbus-Online, Inc.released a white paper detailing BioNimbus, a new patent-pending technology that shows truthful human reactions to any part of a package while it is moving through a 3D virtual reality space. The ability to zero in on specific parts of something a person is viewing, and measure biological responses, in real time, marks a huge advancement in the science of optical, neural and biometric measurement.
