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Opportunities and Challenges for Brands Under 2020 Labeling Regulations

October 26, 2020

As food and beverage manufacturers navigate a consumer audience that has changed its attitudes and behaviors completely, they must also address changing the Nutrition Facts on their labels. Changes to labels like those required under the current regulations can have wider-reaching implications for some brands.

HEINZ Gets Creative for Halloween with Blood Ketchup

October 26, 2020

From ketchup-dipped fries as vampire fangs to hot dog “fingers” dripping in ketchup, fans have used HEINZ Ketchup to add deliciously convincing blood to their Halloween celebrations. Now, ahead of what is sure to be a different kind of Halloween celebration, the brand is debuting HEINZ Tomato Blood Ketchup to contribute to the spooky fun.

Conagra Brands Calls On Employees to Help Create Change with Fundraising Campaign

October 26, 2020

Conagra Brands has launched "United For Change," a new approach to its national employee fundraising campaign. This initiative encourages employees to make personal financial contributions that support essential community programs that provide financial stability, alleviate systemic issues of poverty and advance civil liberties for all Americans.

What I Learned from My Freezer

Stephen Dombroski

October 19, 2020

Like most people around the world, my family and I have been doing whatever we can to adjust to life under the restrictions that have been put in place to address the COVID-19 pandemic. One of the first things we did was determine what supplies we needed to buy to prepare ourselves for a world where we might not be able to leave our house. The first task was to go through our inventory of frozen food.

Materials

Exploring Tomorrow’s Packaging

Sustainable, improved quality and reduced cost.

Edward Kosior

October 12, 2020

Most packaging on shelf these days was designed with the primary purpose to engage with the consumer, protect the contents within and tell a strong brand story. What recyclable features it may include are not always by design and they certainly are not thought through.

PACK EXPO Connects: Column

Packaging Safety in the Age of COVID-19

Liz Parker

October 8, 2020

Despite the fact that the U.S. and the rest of the world has been dealing with the impact of coronavirus since March 2020, food safety and cleanliness in packaging must still be upheld.

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Hemp Packaging for Cannabis — and Beyond

Douglas J Peckenpaugh

October 8, 2020

While FDA is still assessing the safety of CBD in foods and beverages, cannabis-infused products are widely available on the market — particularly in states that have fully legalized cannabis products.

PACK EXPO Connects: Preview

PMMI Presents: PACK EXPO Connects

The virtual PACK EXPO Connects tradeshow will include an intuitive, interactive platform for live engagements with consumer packaged goods companies and suppliers.

Kristen Kazarian

October 8, 2020

For the first time in 60 years, PACK EXPO International has cancelled. However, if you thought that a pandemic would stop the global packaging event, you would be mistaken.

Syntegon Technology and SABIC Launch Packaging Concept for Frozen Foods

October 6, 2020

Syntegon Technology and SABIC, a global leader in diversified chemicals, have developed a sustainable packaging concept for the frozen food industry with a substantial material reduction potential.

Brand Packaging: Marketing

Make Your Product Packaging Your Best Marketing Tool

It’s more than just protecting the product inside.

Kristin Joker

September 30, 2020

Product packaging’s sole purpose originally was to protect the product inside. Over the years, packaging has also doubled as a marketing tool — packaging design now plays a vital role in consumers buying decisions.