In the last decade, coffee consumption by Australian adults has declined slowly but steadily, from 10.5 cups to 9.2 cups per week, but cafe visitation and ownership of coffee-making machines is on the rise, according to findings from market ...
Tags: coffee consumption, home coffee maker, function of age
Bitcoin, 3-D printed candy and George Takei, the Star Trek-actor-turned-Facebook-phenomenon, are among the attractions this week at the South By Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, where the geek set is slowly filing out to make room for ...
Tags: Microsoft, digital currency, technology
STetra Pak is the engine room of Australia's dairy drive in Asia. It is getting drink manufacturers into better shape in an increasingly cluttered market. And it is giving the good old milk bottle a long life run for its money. Now it ...
Tags: Tetra Pak, drink manufacturers, better shape
On March 19, the Active & Intelligent Packaging Industry Association is holding a webinar on Anti-Counterfeiting & Brand Protection. Here's why you should think about attending that discussion. Between December 2013 and January 2014, ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Anti-Counterfeiting&Brand Protection
Alongside changing consumer habits, there have been recent developments in technology meaning there is now opportunity for manufacturers and suppliers to be more creative than ever before. So, what developments should we be looking out ...
Tags: innovation trends, Personalised packaging, Pack differentiation
Food packaging serves multiple purposes. It protects the foodstuff from moisture, dust, microbes, and other contaminants, it facilitates easy handling during transit and storage, guards against any physical or chemical damage and at stores ...
US-based energy drink producer Hiball Energy is planning to launch four new flavors of sparkling energy water, alongside two flavors of organic energy drinks. The proposed sparkling energy water and energy drink flavors will be ...
Tags: Hiball Energy, Energy Water, energy drink
Cargill has unveiled ViaTech, a new stevia-based sweeteners line, designed for food and beverage manufacturers. The new sweeteners are claimed to allow F&B producers to achieve optimal sweetness and significant sugar reduction. They ...
Tags: Cargill, Sweeteners Range
Food packaging is not dangerous, Australian experts have said Australian experts have reassured Australians that the chemicals in plastic food packaging are not harmful to human health. Dr Ian Musgrave, a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty ...
Tags: Food Packaging Chemicals, chemicals in plastic food packaging
The success of coconut water, which surged from zero in 2006 to an almost US$1 billion business in North America and Europe by 2013, is just the first step in a massive trend, according to global nutrition business analysts New Nutrition ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
The show, which took place at Birmingham's NEC, 26 & 27 February 2014, was co-located with six other events: Ecopack, Contract Pack, Packtech, Print Innovations, Labelling Innovations, and Converting. It included packaging buyers from ...
We're in the beginning of a world in which everything is connected to the Internet and with one another, while powerful yet relatively cheap computers analyze all that data for ways to improve lives. Toothbrushes tell your mirror to ...
Tags: Service, Consumer Electronics
South African packaging company Nampak has acquired ownership of the Alucan beverage can plant situated in Agbara, Nigeria. The plant, which has the capacity to manufacture one billion cans per annum, supplies beverage cans for beer and ...
Tags: Beverage Can, Packaging
February 24, 2014 Sophie Langley Some yoghurts and cheeses may reduce risk of diabetes by one-third Higher consumption of yoghurt, compared with no consumption, may reduce the risk of new-onset type 2 diabetes by 28 per cent, according ...
Tags: Yoghurts, Diabetes, EPIC-Norfolk, MRC
February 24, 2014 Sophie Langley Australian-based dairy businesses have coped differently with 'difficult' market conditions Food and beverage company Lion has announced its Dairy and Drinks business experienced “significant ...
Tags: Bega, Lion Dairy, WCB, RTD