The impact of COVID, ecommerce and environmental aspirations have changed how consumer packaging should address new consumer needs — without compromising the importance of the basics in achieving breakthrough and driving purchase.
Sol Cuisine's Hot & Spicy Chik'n Wings and Cauliflower Burger were part of the largest consumer survey on product innovation performed by global research firm Kantar, which included 4,000 Canadian shoppers.
The packaging formats have reportedly been instrumental in helping the packers make the transition from manual to faster and more efficient automatized processes to counter the recent labor shortage hurdles.
These six topics are drastically affecting the flexible packaging landscape.
March 7, 2022
As we covered in our annual Executive Forecast for 2022, the pandemic may not be at the forefront of everyone’s minds directly, but its ripple effects are still spreading outward. Those ripples are impacting the current state of the industry.
The company’s investment will expand manufacturing capabilities in its Specialty Quality Packaging (SQP) facility in New York, where Kari-Out’s popular Food Trays, Eco Box and Eco Earth paper food containers are produced.
UK-based supermarket chain, Iceland, announces a new paper-meets-plastic pillow pouch packaging for its line of frozen chicken breast dippers. Plus, more industry news on paper-based flexible packaging.
Paper-meets-plastic packaging has been making inroads in Europe for the past two years as regulatory drivers and company initiatives have pushed food producers to add more recyclable content to their packaging.