“Shopkins certainly ticks all the boxes for the next collectable craze” says Bulldog Licensing Shopkins has all the ingredients to become the next playground craze, according to the collectable brand’s licensing agency, ...
Green Car Journal has named the Ram 1500 EcoDiesel, America's most fuel efficient pickup its 2015 Green Truck of the Year™. The announcement was made today at the 46th annual San Antonio Auto & Truck Show in San Antonio, Texas. ...
Tags: Ram 1500 EcoDiesel, Green Car, Auto
The next round of testing will be conducted on Tuesday, December 16th. Kids Brand Insight has dated its next KidsPlayTest consumer research session. The next round of testing will be conducted on Tuesday, December 16th with children ...
WhistlePig Straight Rye Whiskey has introduced The Boss Hog: Spirit of Mortimer, the brand's much-anticipated follow-up to last year's Double Gold Medal winner at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition. This top-shelf 100 percent rye ...
Green Bay Packaging has bought Midland Container and Great Lakes Packaging from Chicago-based Arbor Investments for an undisclosed amount. Both the companies that were owned by Midcon Holdings specialize in manufacturing custom point ...
Flexible packaging supplier Bemis Company has announced the sale of its global pressure sensitive materials business, MACtac to Platinum Equity for $170m. Bemis, that specialises in producing pressure sensitive materials for food, ...
Tags: pressure sensitive materials, MACtac business, Agriculture
In order to create a coherent brand image, Appartement 103 worked on the entire range line, developing new graphics and a new bottle shape. Marc Savary, creative director, Appartement 103, said the lines defining the shoulders of the ...
Tags: Azerbaijani Beer, Packaging
For its fiscal first-quarter 2015 (ended 27 September 2014), Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides components, modules and subsystems for optical communications) has reported revenue of $89.2m (at the high end of the $83-91m ...
Fiat is planning to fund $61bn over the next five years to turn Maserati and Alfa Romeo into global brands and spin off its luxury sports car maker Ferrari and list the shares. The company is considering to issue $2.5bn convertible bonds ...
Tags: treasury shares, Italian heritage, Auto
“We are looking forward to a successful 2015,” said John Dyer, director and senior artists at Paul Windle Design. Paul Windle Designs has outlined its plans to work even closer with the toy and game industry as the firm ...
Tags: Paul Windle, Star Wars Rebels, Toys
Chevrolet is planning to introduce a special edition 2015 Camaro Commemorative Edition at the SEMA Show in Las Vegas. The car will be available to customers in spring, and buyers will have an option to choose between 2LT and 2SS coupes ...
Tags: special edition Camaro, SS V8 engine, V6 engine, Auto
The new branding features a white oyster dredger silhouette on a black background, reflecting the coastal town of Whitstable in Kent. The name was chosen to complement the existing Whitstable Bay range and by drawing upon the heritage of ...
Tags: Whitstable Bay Drinks, Packaging
More than ever before, automation and assembly go hand in hand (or gripper to gripper)—even at small-scale, low-volume production levels. The quest for higher efficiencies and cost savings is driving manufacturers to add consistency ...
Tags: Automation, modular automation
Tokyo-based Showa Shell Sekiyu subsidiary Solar Frontier – the largest manufacturer of CIS (copper indium selenium) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solar modules – is installing newly enhanced proprietary CIS production lines at its ...
Tags: copper indium selenium, PV
DuPont has opened its doors for the 27th DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation and entry forms are available here. Wondering if you should enter? Brand owners, retailers, packaging designers, converters and technology providers from ...