Columns Topic | Packaging Strategies

Columns

Industry experts share insight and advice.

ARTICLES

Packaging Strategies Editor's Note Main Image

Editor’s Note | Packaging Wake Up Call

For legacy brands, reinvention comes at a cost but it’s worth it.

Kristin Joker

January 10, 2022

No Comments

For nearly a century, we have been opening English muffin packaging wrong. We, the groggy, have fought to unwrap cellophane English muffin packaging for decades. But that was only half the battle.

Editor's note | FCK Sentiment - Give Us Humor

All I want for Christmas is to laugh again

Kristin Joker

December 10, 2021

No Comments

When life gets difficult, a sense of humor helps. Given the labor shortages, congested shipping ports and lack of raw materials combined with rising inflation, there is no question: We consumers are living in challenging times.

Wise Market Research Decisions Can Save Time and Money

Data Watch | Predictive Maintenance

More than a buzzword

December 10, 2021

No Comments

The term predictive maintenance has been widely used in recent years although there is no agreed industry-wide definition.

Editor’s Note | Packaging’s Past, Present and Future

Kristin Joker

November 1, 2021

No Comments

Here are is where I overstayed my assigned time and messed up my schedule.

Editor’s Note | The Trick is there is No Treat

The light’s on but it’s a no-candy home

Kristin Joker

October 8, 2021

No Comments

I’m one of those dreadful people that give out healthy “treats” on Halloween. Let me explain.

Editor’s Note

Consumers Want Closure on Cereal Bag Issue

Kristin Joker

September 15, 2021

No Comments

Yes, I know that some cereals are available in resealable pouches. But we’re talking about having cereal in resealable bags in the box.

Editor’s Forum

Misread Anger

Self-checkout machines are designed to be convenient but are they?

Kristin Joker

August 16, 2021

No Comments

If you can make it through a self-checkout without hearing any of these dreaded sentences, congratulations, you have won a battle in the ongoing war of man versus machine.

Greening Supply

Collaboration Is a Requirement for Sustainable Change

Russian retailer X5 is setting the pace for the country’s sustainability efforts by getting supplier buy-in to green the retailer’s supply chain.

Yana Synesiou

July 14, 2021

No Comments

In the spring, X5 published Russia’s first sustainable packaging recommendations — representing the first time a large retailer has advised its suppliers to package their products in a way that is easily recyclable.

Data Watch

COVID-19 and Its Impact on the Print Machinery Market

July 14, 2021

No Comments

According to a report from Smithers, COVID-19 has had a major impact on the print machinery market, with an accelerating effect on trends that were already being established.