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Kristen Kazarian

Kristen Kazarian

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Materials Technology: Bio-based Materials

The year of bio-based packaging

Sustainable living is growing and with it, interest in going beyond recycling.
Kristen Kazarian
August 15, 2016

Bio-based packaging materials offer great opportunity for food and beverage companies.


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Food trucks the new restaurant

Food trucks the new indie restaurant of choice

Kristen Kazarian
August 9, 2016

Food trucks were once overlooked – rather, shunned by most folks. Getting food from the side or back of a truck was deemed sort of lower than the fast-food alternative. 


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LaCoste's alligator is back on the perfume bottles of three new scents
Market Trends: Personal Care Packaging

Personal care packaging brightens many a shelf

Kristen Kazarian
July 13, 2016

The personal care packaging market has held its own in recent years, and is expected to continue to grow.


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Materials Technology: Caps & Closures

Caps and closures are getting more high-tech

The future’s so bright as beverage innovations and anti-counterfeiting measures for caps and closures are getting more high-tech.
Kristen Kazarian
July 13, 2016

The overall global demand for caps and closures is expected to grow at 5.6% annually through 2019, according to Freedonia’s (freedonia.com) study “World Caps & Closures.”


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Edy's single serve ice cream cup

We are living in a single-serve world

Kristen Kazarian
June 28, 2016

It’s everywhere – on television, in stores, in restaurants: the single-serve package. 


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Household Packaging: The Future is in the Design and Label

Kristen Kazarian
June 15, 2016

Household care packaging players must focus on design and labeling to push through the future with boosted sales.


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Market trends in three major household care categories
Market Trends: Household Packaging

Household care packaging players must focus on design and labeling

Kristen Kazarian
June 13, 2016

Due in part to intense competition, aggressive retail promotion and consumers seeking value, it is up to the package design – and the labeling – to lift sales in the household packaging market by differentiating brands and delivering value.


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