Known for its high quality premium pet food and commitment to sustainability, Petcurean, is expanding its popular NOW FRESH™ line with stew and pâté recipes for dogs and cats, made with 100 percent fresh wild salmon, turkey or pork in nutrient-rich turkey bone broth. With zero genetically engineered ingredients, and available in industry-leading recyclable and reclosable Tetra Pak® cartons, NOW FRESH stews and pâtés bring innovative fresh and healthy food options that pet parents can feel good about buying and serving.
Brands, marketers and manufacturers constantly strive to understand consumer behavior – they struggle to measure and understand what matters to their prospective customers and what doesn’t. A survey from Luminer of 400 U.S. men and women aged 18-65 uncovers the specific packaging and labeling features that most draw consumers’ attention to a product on the shelf. The responses reveal the true importance of producing packaging and labeling techniques that are not just visually compelling, but also functionally optimized to deliver the information that consumers seek.
Pantone has released PantoneLIVE Design and Pantone Simulator Prints, an integrated physical and digital workflow duo for packaging designers. PantoneLIVE Design enables digital color management for designers working in packaging materials. Pantone colors are automatically updated and synced in Adobe applications via the plugin, so designers can work with color more easily.
Delivery and e-commerce are two major new factors influencing the findings in this year’s Trends Report from the Foodservice Packaging Institute. Today’s consumers are experiencing what the report calls “nearly limitless” food delivery options, such as meal kits and delivery programs, prepared food couriered by third-party vendors, and take-out and delivery options from traditional dine-in foodservice establishments. These delivery options impact how foodservice packaging must perform. Consumers want meals to arrive hot, fresh and safe, along with being represented by the foodservice brand.
Plum Organics, a leading organic baby food brand credited with revolutionizing the baby food category with the introduction of the spouted pouch, announces the launch of Baby Bowls: culinary-inspired baby food blends in a spoon-friendly dish. The first product line of its kind in the jar segment, Plum's Baby Bowls combine style and substance with beautiful design, improved function and flavorful recipes featuring organic ingredients like avocado, turmeric, cauliflower and chia.
Until fairly recently it was impossible to imagine that printed bottles could find their way into the recycling process. However, the research carried out by KHS and its partners on development in this field has since paid off: Direct Print Powered by KHS™ has again been granted interim certification from an official body. The recyclability of the award-winning direct printing process was first certified by the EPBP in 2013 and has now been reconfirmed. This means that an independent organization has clearly attested that PET bottles processed by Direct Print Powered by KHS™ have no negative impact on the rPET and are thus officially approved for bottle-to-bottle PET recycling.
Demand for food and drink packaging in North America will continue to expand and add new functionalities across the next five years, according to the latest exclusive market research from Smithers Pira.
Flexible Packaging Association's 2017 Fall Executive Conference had a record-breaking 148 attendees and welcomed speakers that focused on topics and issues important to the flexible packaging industry, such as an update on the International Trade Commission and Section 232 investigations of aluminum imports, the state of sustainable packaging, an overview on the flexible packaging global market, an update on FPA’s State Advocacy Program and a polyolefin market update.
OSI Creative, a leading provider of global supply chain managed solutions for point of purchase (POP) displays, consumer product packaging and branded merchandise programs, has been named by California's Orange County Business Journal as one of the area’s fastest-growing privately held companies.
The first-place winner of the 2017 Glass Packaging Design Competition at Michigan State University School of Packaging is a student team who beat out 40 other teams with their embossed glass bottle design for Golden Eagle Tequila.
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