Articles by Pan Demetrakakes

General Mills has built on its August history with one successful innovation after another, especially in packaging.

Grads or soon-to-be grads from top packaging schools tell us what they anticipate in their professional lives.

At the risk of sounding like Lou Dobbs, I have a confession: I wish Americans weren’t so geek-phobic.

One of the purest examples of the importance of packaging can be found in the Berlin Airlift.

As containers and labels get thinner and more distinctively shaped, labeling equipment must rise to the challenge.

Economic factors put oddly divergent pressures on prices for virgin and recycled paperboard.

For people who write about the food industry, one of the things guaranteed to drive us insane is the degree of secrecy.

General Mills has emerged as one of the best-performing big food companies in a tight economy. Here's how packaging helps.

If you balance the ecological good of saving that load from being landfilled with the harm of all that litter, you come up with…what?

On-site thermoforming is just one of the challenges faced by Dannon’s largest U.S. facility, in Minster, Ohio.