Japanese retail packaging is as culturally unique to Japan as its language, traditional dress and customs, and it took four days at Tokyo Pack 2014 to begin to make sense of characteristic traits in pack construction and consumer ...
Tags: retail packaging, Packaging
Honest Tea’s line of 16.9 fl. oz. real brewed iced teas has been updated with new varieties, a new bottle, and label graphics while providing organic and Fair Trade Certified teas. America's top-selling organic bottled tea is ...
Tags: Honest Tea, Iced Teas, Agriculture
The 2015 Finat Labelling Competition is open for entries until 5 March 2015. Here's what you need to know to enter: Is your work eligible? Finat is the competition to find the best work in self-adhesive label print. It applauds the best ...
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Matt Blackmore has been named this year’s SMEG Art Design competition winner with his travel-themed entry, ‘Round the World’ – inspired from a Blackmore family treasure of a travel trunk that belonged to his Great ...
Tags: Art Design, fridge, Furniture
'Fun gift for boys' sign has been removed from all Tesco stores, after Maggie Cole spotted the poster in her local store in Dorset. The fight for gender neutrality in toy shops may have itself a new face, as Tesco felt the wrath of a ...
Scotland-based W&M Watson Packaging (WMW) will be acquiring two self-adhesive label companies based in central Scotland - Lothian Labels (LLL) and Complete Labelling (CLL). While the former is a prominent label manufacturer, the latter ...
Tags: self-adhesive label, Packaging
The backlash against sugar has changed consumer attitudes is effecting global markets, according to a new report from global market research organisation Euromonitor International. The report identifies 34 global markets, all of which saw ...
Tags: sweeteners, Sugar
Speaking to Packaging News, chief executive Wim Maes was upbeat and said that while the labels sector had accepted digital print technology, there was still work to be done in cartons. Maes was speaking as the digital press manufacturer ...
Tags: Digital Pie, Packaging
Jo Saker, Creative Director at Parker Williams said: “Building on our experience of Branston, we were keen to retain the brand’s visual equity within a new product market. It was important to provide a clear link to Branston ...
Tags: visual equity, Branston Chutney, Packaging
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently fined Triax Turbine Components for violations of the hazardous waste law and, in a separate action, Hill Brothers Chemical Company for violations of pesticides law. These actions support ...
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Multi Packaging Solutions (MPS) has completed its previously announced acquisition of the North American and Asian print businesses of AGI-Shorewood Group (ASG) to expand its global network and customer base. ASG, which is a portfolio ...
The Indian retail chain Shoppers Stop has joined forces with the Australian-based international wool textile organisation The Woolmark Company to promote finest quality wool and woollen apparels in India. Scheduled to run till December ...
Tags: wool textile organisation, retail chain Shoppers, Apparel
Seeing the recent rise in popularity of sustainably produced fashion and zero-waste ideology, many new labels across the world have come up with ideas to use reclaimed and reused textiles in their apparel designs. One such designer label ...
Russian food safety agency Rosselkhoznadzor has imposed a ban on meat imports from Montenegro citing illegal export practices. The agency claimed that the EU is allegedly smuggling its meat to Russia under labels of Montenegro, TASS ...
Tags: Illegal re-exports of meat products, food safety, Agriculture
Digital printing technology provider Xeikon will be showcasing its enhanced folding carton suite where print stations will be equipped with an additional orange toner, in combination with CMYK. With the extra colour toner, the print ...
Tags: folding carton suite, Digital printing technology, Agriculture