Items Tagged with "Sustainable Packaging"
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Structural packaging and the product it merchandises and protects are so inextricably linked that it’s nearly impossible to talk about one without the other. In fact, the packaging connects with the consumer at the shelf before the product itself, according to keynote presenter Robert Parvis,
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Editor’s Note: This is the second article in of a two-part report on the Store Brands Decisions 3rd annual Packaging Design Roundtable. Last week’s article analyzed the issues stifling store brands packaging innovation.Kurt DenmanSustainable packaging is a topic that stymies most store b
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Outdoor equipment company REI is revamping its packaging to reduce the amount of materials used to yield a lower environmental impact.REI' plans to do this by reducing overall REI-brand packaging by 25 percent by the end of 2013.According to a report by Heritage Pioneer, a sustainable packaging solu
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Walmart’s Sam’s Club will deliver a special keynote presentation on packaging innovation and sustainability at the 2nd annual Store Brands Decisions Innovation & Marketing Summit in March.Robert ParvisPresented by Robert Parvis, director of packaging for Sam’s Club, the session
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GreenBlue’s Sustainable Packaging Coalition and Store Brands Decisions are collaborating and hosting an exclusive three-hour educational seminar to provide store brands retailers and suppliers with insights and best practices for the adoption of sustainable packaging.The sustainable packaging
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Wilmington, Del. -- DuPont Packaging announced the call for entries in the 24th DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation, the industry’s longest running, independently judged competition.“Needs for improved sustainability and cost/waste reduction are the key drivers for packaging inn
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Sainsbury's has replaced the glass used in its store brands peanut butter jars with plastic, cutting packaging by 83 percent or 882,000 kilos (1.94 million pounds).The change is the first of its kind by a U.K. retailer and puts Sainsbury's well on its way to meeting its target to cut total packaging
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The Consumer Goods Forum has released the Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability (GPPS) to enable the consumer goods industry to better assess the relative sustainability of packaging.The goal of the protocol is to help companies reduce the environmental impact of their packaging by providing a
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Marks & Spencer continues to hone its private label business with new green packaging and a series of executive appointments intended to support store brands and the continuation of its Plan A program, transforming the chain into one of the leading retailers in the area of sustainability.M&S
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Walmart’s sustainable packaging initiatives involve more than simply reducing packaging size, according to Ron Sasine, the retailer’s senior director of packaging.Ron Sasine“We're looking at the entire life cycle of packaging and knowing that improvement can take many forms,”
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Packaging is a critical component of Walmart’s Sustainability Index, not only due to its environmental impacts but because customers ultimately touch, feel and engage with products and packaging at the shelf, according to Fred Bedore, senior director of business strategy and sustainability for
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Retailers and manufacturers mired in the numerous and often divergent standards and metrics on sustainable packaging that exist domestically and internationally, should breath a sign of relief come early next year. The Global Packaging Project plans to release in January a standard measurement syste
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