Smart packaging has come a long way – snack food bags can detect drunk drivers and beer bottles can play music – but more brands are investing in smart labels to connect brands and technology.

A  whopping one third – 1.3 billion tons – of the food produced for human consumption worldwide is lost every year. Americans throw out about 40% of the food they produce annually, the equivalent of $165 billion.

Sweettauk Lemonade chose a clean simple form that speaks to the pureness of the product ‒ a stock "bullet" style PET bottle for its recyclability ‒ and communicates the brand's message through label graphics.

Litehouse Inc. is brightening up refrigerated produce shelves with a refreshed packaging design for its core line of dressings and dips. Following consumer research and testing, the new trend-setting design and color palette was created with consumers in mind and underscores the company’s commitment to taste, freshness and real ingredients.  

Schreiner MediPharm has introduced a marking solution for syringes - the new Pharma-Multi-Act is a user-friendly label offering reliable, irreversible first-opening indication that can include various additional security and indicator functionalities.

Shrink sleeve packaging is on the rise, primarily in the beverage industry, though it has also seen an increase in use in tamper-resistant packaging applications. 

Zanders, German manufacturer of high quality specialty label papers, presented high-gloss finished label papers Chromolux, one of the world's leading premium paper brands, as well as Zanlabel paper grades.

Driven by increasingly complex supply chains, a lack of enforcement capacity, the expansion of ecommerce and more sophisticated counterfeiters and counterfeiting methods, the FDA estimates that approximately 10% of all pharmaceuticals currently sold globally are illicit.

To drive home its Labelexpo theme of “Pioneering Change,” Avery Dennison decided showing was better than telling.