New packaging formats, sizes and designs, as well as product offerings, are disrupting grocery stores everywhere, leaving behind the popular foods of just 10 years ago.

DuPont Packaging Award judges discuss global trends in second of six-part video.

As brands seek to tap into sustainability and wellness trends, brand owners can make significant strides in the arena with clean labels, transparency – both figuratively and literally – and by striving to reduce their carbon footprint throughout the supply chain.

Packaging Strategies chats with Rudi Becker, senior director of packaging, at method, the largely successful household products brand.

“Spending money like water” usually means wasting money. Not so long ago, many companies spent money like water on water, and on other seemingly abundant commodities, like compressed air.

Leveraging the desire for more sustainable packaging can significantly help brands drive sales and consumer loyalty.

Companies are doing more with post-consumer recycled content, plant-based materials and even sustainable company practices, and that is usually because consumers are demanding for more.

At North America’s big Pack Expo show last month, it was not difficult to see that machinery and material suppliers are working to capitalize on some trends sweeping the packaging industry.