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Beverage

PepsiCo launches 'grip' pack in India

Proprietary design for Mountain Drew makes bottles easier to hold, and the company plans to extend the design to additional global markets.

April 26, 2010

Prepared & Canned Foods

FPA picks student winners

Two clever winners placed first and second in this year’s Student Flexible Packaging Design Challenge.

April 26, 2010

Beverage

Is a tobacco company using packaging to target children?

Yes, say some critics and it carries ramifications for other CPG industries.

April 26, 2010

Beverage

Pilot program tackles hot-beverage cup recycling

CoRR launches the second phase of its food packaging project to demonstrate the viability of recycling paper cups along with corrugated cardboard into high-value materials.

April 22, 2010

Soups, Condiments, Sauces, Spices, Dips & Dressings

French vintner aims to take wine in new directions

Boisset Family Estates is getting away from the traditional glass bottle and going with a plastic bottle and a Tetra Pak container. Aluminum containers might be next.

April 22, 2010

Beverage

Aluminum can is most sustainable package, association rebukes

The Aluminum Association reacts to PETRA LCI that gives PET bottles the ‘green light’ over glass and aluminum for single-serve soft drinks.

April 22, 2010

Beverage

Refillable packaging: What's in it for the consumer?

An ASDA supermarket trial in the U.K. offers consumers an in-store opportunity to refill private-label fabric softener in a plastic pouch.

April 22, 2010

Beverage

Need for MES more critical than ever

Just as a new study from Frost & Sullivan underscores how important it is to integrate top-level business systems with packaging machines on the plant floor, we’re holding a conference in which major brand owners will discuss how they’ve been doing just that.

April 21, 2010

Beverage

Is global standardization essential to sustainable packaging's future?

Economic and market forces drive sustainability movement; new committee attempting to harmonize standards pertaining to environmental packaging.

April 15, 2010

Beverage

Has the tube's time come in additional categories?

In Europe, vodka and energy drinks have emerged in tube packaging. In the U.S., now there’s sushi in a tube. Marketers are finding new uses for this versatile package form.

April 13, 2010

Beverage

New study gives 'green' light to PET bottles over glass, aluminum

New LCI study comparing PET bottles versus glass and aluminum containers for soft drinks reveals PET provides the lowest environmental footprint.

April 9, 2010

Beverage

New design, and a 40% sales boost, for Gentleman Jack

Brown-Forman increased sales 40% for its Jack Daniels Gentleman Jack line of premium Tennessee whiskey by broadening the brand's appeal beyond its primary market of 25- to 34-year-old white males.

April 8, 2010