With an impressive display of more than 1,600 exhibitors, PACK EXPO 2013 is expecting a full house when the Las Vegas Convention Center opens its doors for three days-Sept. 23-25-to more than 26,000 packaging and processing professionals ...
ReposiTrak has announced that first member of leading supermarket group has implemented its food safety solution, a move which expands the adoption of ReposiTrak as the industry standard for tracking and tracing food. ReposiTrak has ...
Tags: Food Safety Solution
If you've spent any time in the materials handling industry, it's hard not to fall in love with automation. Still, some great ideas are so simple, yet so effective, that in retrospect you wonder: Why didn't I think of that? The order ...
Tags: Logistics, Transportation
Avery Dennison Label and Packaging Materials has unveiled Select Solutions Reclosure portfolio which is designed for wet and dry home, personal care and food product applications. The Select Solutions Reclosure portfolio comprises film ...
Tags: Avery Dennison, Food Packaging
Dynamic Tire Corp. has appointed John Overing president of the Dynamic Tire Wholesale and Distribution Business division. In his new job, Overing says he will use his experience, passion and skills in both consumer packaged goods and ...
Tags: Tire, Auto Parts
When the Great Recession hit in 2008/2009, consumers made shopping for values an epic, albeit mostly necessary, past-time. Many of their shopping behaviors have now become habits even though the economy has improved—and center-store ...
Making RFID tags affordable is one of the key drivers in the rapid development of Printed Electronics (PE). With traditional RFID tags being considered expensive, fragile and open to questions about security and performance, the concept ...
Tags: Printed Electronics, RFID tags, Packaging, Printing
Chosen Bun opens for business at the end of June with its first site on London's Fulham Road. Following a year of research, taking in tasting trips across the US from New York to LA, Miami and on to Naples, entrepreneurs Andy Shovel and ...
Retailers and consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies today are dealing with new rules of consumer engagement as they seize opportunities from advanced technology and the digitally connected consumer, according to the 2013 Financial ...
Tags: CPG, Packaging&Printing, Digital
The Fashion Institute of Technology's (FIT) beauty industry think tank unveiled "disruptive" visions for the future of consumer product marketing in three key areas of the digital sphere when they presented Beauty in a Digital World, on ...
Tags: FIT, Beauty Industry
A cross-functional team of 10 managers from resealable-closure company Zip-Pak recently completed an intensive 18-month global packaging study. Zip-Pak's goal in conducting the study was to openly observe the packaging landscape and the ...
Tags: Packaging, Retail Packaging, Global Retail
GS1 US has introduced two new readiness programs to help companies in the food industry implement and improve product traceability processes by leveraging GS1 Standards: the Seafood Traceability Readiness Program and Dairy, Deli, Bakery ...
The Retailer Owned Food Distributors & Associates (ROFDA), a leading cooperative of independent food wholesalers in the US, has selected track and trace technology from ReposiTrak, as part of its plan to strengthen food safety. The ...
US-based private equity firm Wind Point Partners is planning to merge two of its portfolio companies – Hearthside Food Solutions and Ryt-way Industries, a move which will create a leading contract food manufacturer in North America, ...
Tags: Wind Point Partners, food
The global economy relies heavily on small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Though challenged by resource limitations, SMBs have been at the forefront of innovation over the last century thanks to a relentless focus on streamlining ...