After remaining relatively flat for the past 15 years, the US corrugated box industry is “in a growth mode again,” former International Paper (IP) Sr VP Bill Hoel told the recent Fibre Box Association (FBA) annual meeting in San Francisco. One reason for this growth is e-commerce, which presents both a “tremendous opportunity” and also …
Mintel announces the four key trends set to impact North American consumer markets over the coming year. With surprises at every turn and vague uncertainty gripping Americans and Canadians daily, being attuned to consumer trends across transparency, value, self-care and automation is perhaps more crucial in 2018 than ever before. In the coming year, Mintel predicts …
The recent series of Vision 2025 focus groups conducted by PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, captured an increasingly popular sentiment throughout the packaging community: “The more things change, the more they stay the same.” According to input received from more than 58 consumer packaged goods (CPG) professionals, some familiar fundamentals are fueling …
New retail realities help drive accelerated global growth for retail-ready packaging solutions. No one can deny or dismiss the enormous competitive impact of online shopping and e-commerce retailing on the traditional brick-and-mortar retail outlets across North America. But neither should anyone discount the retailers’ ability to adapt to new challenges, however urgent and far-reaching they may …
When considered over the lifetime of the packaging, paper and cardboard embody far more greenhouse gases than their plastic equivalents. From Carbon Commentary, part of the Guardian Environment Network Riverford Organics, one of the largest vegetable box schemes in the UK, has suggested it may move away from cardboard packaging and towards plastic. In this …
One of the cornerstones of the folding carton industry, and a reason for its continued stability, is the fact that most paper-based packaging is used for consumer staples. Nearly 60 percent of all paperboard packaging is used in food product segments such as beverages and dairy products, candy and confections, dry foods and frozen foods. …
Companies can turn to recycled materials, or reduced packaging to meet their sustainability goals. Food and beverage consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies, along with their suppliers, long ago embraced a commitment to delivering high-quality products to customers and end-use consumers while pursuing more sustainable packaging solutions. Specifically, millennials will help to push this trend further …
Think about your most recent purchase. Why did you purchase that specific brand? Was it an impulse buy or something you genuinely needed? Now that you’re thinking about it, odds are, you bought it because it was interesting. Yes, you may have needed shampoo, but did you need that specific brand? The one with the …
Choice of packaging type is made on the basis of a series of trade-offs between many factors, particularly between the amount of packaging and likely product wastage. Manufacturers of goods look for a balance between: protecting their goods (the cost of damaged goods or the danger from spoilt foods is far worse for the environment …
Many organizations make decisions based on outdated assumptions about their customers’ needs. They believe that if they present more product information, consumers will value them; if they offer cash incentives, consumers will respond; or if they add more choice, consumers will buy. However, in the last few decades, behavioral scientists have identified many ways in …