Convenience is one of the fastest-growing categories in retail and the market for chilled convenience food is estimated to be worth euro 145bn (pound 125bn) across Europe, with the UK market in the sector forecast to grow to euro 20bn by ...
Tags: New Linpac Division, Chilled Retail, Convenience Sector
Nestlé is all set to provide consumers instant access to information about the nutritional profile and environmental and social impacts of its products, through its new nutritional label scanning technology. According to the ...
Tags: Nestlé, label scanning technology, packaging
The firm describes the packer “as a flexible high speed system for vertical case packing quad bags, pouches and doy packs”. The new precision all stainless steel robot, which uses a Elau/Schneider control system, represents ...
Tags: TekPak, packer, vertical case packing
If ‘Horse-gate’ has anything to tell us, it’s that tight margins make for cut corners. Lessons, no doubt, will be learned. However, as any fool knows: pay peanuts and you’ll get monkeys (maybe even to eat). An ...
Tags: labelling, packaging, packaging industry
Selfridges hit the headlines last month with its ‘No Noise’ packs, which removed wording and logos from familiar and iconic products (see page 3). But can such a strategy be transferred to any pack Bic Bicknell Co-founder, ...
Tags: packs, iconic brands, debranding
UK-based consumer insight agency, Engage Research has said that informed consumers will place increased pressure on FMCG brands to adopt product packaging, which represents closely their values as well as their needs. Engage Research ...
Robotic packaging line manufacturer in the UK, TekPak, has launched a pick and place case packer, a flexible high speed system for vertical case packing quad bags, pouches and doy packs. The new precision all stainless steel robot uses a ...
Tags: Robotic case packer, packaging, doy packs
Isabella Foods, an establishment based in Texas, is recalling approximately 685 pounds of tamale products as they contain wheat or soy that is not mentioned on the product labeling, according to the US Department of Agriculture's Food ...
Tags: Isabella Foods, Food, tamale products
Today, Eventide is exhibiting at MacWorld, for the first time, to unveil a revolutionary new addition to its stompbox line: the H9 Harmonizer®. For decades, Eventide effects have been used on hit records, major Hollywood films, and live ...
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Belfast-based design firm Paperjam Design were approached by charity group Autism Initiatives to create a brand for their new social enterprise, Chocolate Memories. According to Paperjam, the brief was to create packs that looked ...
Tags: Paperjam Design, new social enterprise, Chocolate Memories, packs
US-based MP Global Products’ division ThermoPod has introduced thermoKeeper packaging liners for extended time frame mail order shipments of chocolates, pies & cakes, and other temperature sensitive foods to save pallet and shelf ...
Tags: packaging liners, thick insulated packaging liners, packaging
While the economic downturn has affected consumer spending across many sectors, craft and craft-style beers are defying recessionary trends with an impressive upward trajectory. Indeed, latest research by Mintel on the craft beer market in ...
Tags: Craft beer, craft style beers, beer category
Following on from their successful implementation of DeSL's PLM solution, Men's Wearhouse are now embarking on a Phase 2 project to implement DeSL's full supply chain solution. Men’s Wearhouse was founded in 1973 and has grown to ...
Tags: DeSL PLM, Men's Wearhouse, Full Supply Chain
Bull Falls Brewery in Wausau, Wisconsin, US, has entered into an agreement with Mid-Wisconsin Beverage for the distribution of its craft-brewed beers across central and northern Wisconsin. The distribution agreement comes on the heels of ...
Tags: Bull Falls Brewery, Mid-Wisconsin Beverage, craft-brewed beers
Riverbend Plantation is voluntarily recalling its own brand Saskatoon Berry Chocolate Hearts as they contain milk and hazelnuts that is not mentioned on the product labeling, according to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA). The ...
Tags: Riverbend Plantation, Saskatoon Berry Chocolate Hearts, CFIA