Even as middle class consumers are tightening their budgets, companies are finding ways to tout “everyday luxury” products—from food to shampoo—that cost 30-50 percent more. The trick: packaging. ...
Specialist FMCG packaging company, Blackie and Associates, has created functional and fashionable new-look packaging for two South African cereal brands, one mass market, one more niched....
How do you differentiate a commodity like sugar? With packaging, of course - as just very neatly done in the US by Domino Foods. Two brands of its sugar now come in a shapely new package with an easy-to-use flip-top dispenser. [Click pic to enlarge]
Anti-microbial packaging could soon be a reality, really. Pharmaceutical company, Janssen Pharmaceutica, and UK advanced plastics manufacturer, Symphony Environmental, have collaborated to create a new type of plastic that helps preserve food and prevent spoiliage. Two years in development, they are now reportedly in...
Every two years, the Packaging Council of South Africa (PACSA) names its ‘Packaging Achiever’ – an accolade that’s traditionally presented at IPSA’s biennial Gold Pack Awards (announced late October). This is a significant honour and this year’s winner is Jeremy Mackintosh, MD of Polyoak Packaging,...
Woolworths has launched two refrigerated seafood ready meals in an innovative, dual-ovenable, two-compartment bag. The pre-made 'Smart Release' bags are supplied by Sirane. [Click to enlarge]
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Beverage can manufacturer, Ball Packaging Europe, is unveiling its Magic Straw Can along with several other beverage can innovations at the Drinktec 2013, the world fair for the beverage and liquid food industry in Münich in September. [Click pic to enlarge]
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UK consumer champions Which? reports millions of Britons suffer "wrap rage", as modern-day technology and moulded plastic packaging infuriates shoppers....
Bokomo's Nature’s Source brand of muesli has been given a stylish makeover - with a modernised packaging design and the launch of several new flavours. [Click pic to enlarge]
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The wine cork could be set for a return to the mass market with the launch of a twistable and re-sealable version that does away with the corkscrew. [Click pic to enlarge]
After ten years in development, European metal and glass giant, Ardagh Group, has teamed up with leading canned food producer, Bonduelle, to launch a new generation food can that delivers enhanced consumer appeal, together with significant environmental benefits. [Click pic to enlarge]
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In celebrating World Environment Day today [5 June], PETCO (PET Plastic Recycling SA) has launched its moving story of PET bottle collection in this country - showing how the collection of plastic soft drink bottles, for recycling, is changing the lives of many. This is...
Why drink beer out of a cylindrical can when you can drink it out of a bow tie-shaped can? That's what US beer giant, Anheuser-Busch, is positing, as it releases a unique can that it hopes will be worth its weight in marketing gold....
Established in 1976, Polyoak Packaging now counts as one of Southern Africa’s leading rigid plastic packaging suppliers, with various divisions specialising in thermoformed, blowmoulded, injection-moulded and compression-moulded plastics packaging for the dairy, food and beverage, and retail sectors. A customer-focused approach combined with leading-edge PET...
Packaging awards news from the US...
PepsiCo has redesigned its 20-oz Pepsi bottle (591ml) for the first time in 17 years and which will begin rolling out across America in April. [Click to enlarge]
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Very stylish item of innovation for the wine industry...
SGS recently presented Hulamin Containers with ISO 22000:2005 and PAS 223:2011 certificates, the latter being the first one to be issued by SGS South Africa. The aluminium foil food packaging company is one of some 70 clients who have obtained ISO 22000:2005 certification from SGS....
Nampak Plastics in the UK, the country’s top producer of plastic milk bottles, has created the world’s lightest ever four-pint (two-litre) high density polyethylene (HDPE) bottle.
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Nampak, Africa’s largest packaging group, has announced it is investing R1,6bn in two businesses that produce bottles and cans for the "growing" beverage market....