Dairy

Consumer-friendly packaging gains new importance

Mona Doyle wants brand managers and package designers to know this: The price you pay in good will and sales for packaging that consumers perceive as undesirable could get even higher.

January 31, 2005

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Dairy

Lessons learned from Baileys redesign

Baileys’ brand director offers advice about managing a major redesign.

January 31, 2005

Beverage

How to capitalize on the manufacturing revolution

Surrounded by constant miracles of technological innovation, the development of China as the manufacturing center of the world, and customers who are more demanding than ever, how does today’s manufacturer cope?

January 31, 2005

Beverage

Pfizer: Pharma industry needs machine interoperability

Paul Greene of corporate IT at Pfizer had interoperability and widespread enterprise integration on the brain February 3 when he addressed the ARC Advisory Group’s Performance Driven Manufacturing Forum in Orlando, FL.

January 31, 2005

Dairy

RFID plans at Starbucks

Coffeehouse chain plans to use the technology to let suppliers make after-dark deliveries.

January 31, 2005

Beverage

Eurotherm: Eurotherm: Data management system

Eurotherm, a unit of Invensys plc, has announced the release of a new Advanced Screen Builder feature in the 5000 Series Data Management System. This feature enables 24 custom user screens to be created and viewed at the instrument’s touch screen.

January 31, 2005

Beverage

Pop artist does labels

Knightsbridge Fine Wines has signed a licensing agreement with Britto Central for access to certain works by internationally acclaimed pop artist Romero Britto for use on its labels and promotional merchandise.

January 31, 2005

Beverage

No label change, say two juice makers

Coca-Cola North America, manufacturers of Minute Maid orange juice, and Tropicana, a subsidiary of PepsiCo, Inc., rejected a call by the Florida Department of Citrus to change the labeling on packages of “light” orange juice after studies showed consumers were confused about the juice content of the products.

January 31, 2005

Beverage

The truth, nothing but the truth

The Food and Drug Administration has rejected a request by the soft drink industry that it be allowed to continue to use an “and/or” label when it comes to listing sweeteners on labels.

January 31, 2005

Beverage

Sri Lankan brewer responds to tsunami disaster

A Sri Lankan brewery has temporarily given up making beer and switched to bottling water to help survivors of the Indian Ocean tsunami, the relief group Oxfam International reported on Thursday, December 30.

January 31, 2005

Meat, Poultry & Seafood

Having fun with wine packaging

Snob Hill Winery scores with a synthetic cork and its Le Snoot piggy graphics on labels. Don Sebastiani puts a screw cap in its wine name.

January 31, 2005

Meat, Poultry & Seafood

Spirited redesign for Baileys

Why mess with success? Diageo’s popular Baileys Irish Cream receives a dramatic new consumer-driven look.

January 31, 2005

Beverage

Dimensions.05 delivers for packaging pros

Manufacturers, distributors, packaging suppliers, and testing laboratories should not miss Dimensions.05, The International Forum on Transport Packaging.

January 31, 2005