Wine In Portable, Single-Serve Packaging
After a break of 3 months, I finally found my enthusiasm for packaging technology returning. To my readers, who worried about this 3 months silence and contacted me to stimulate […]
After a break of 3 months, I finally found my enthusiasm for packaging technology returning. To my readers, who worried about this 3 months silence and contacted me to stimulate […]
According to Euromonitor stand-up pouches are and will be up to 2017, one of the fastest growing packaging formats. In favour of the pouch is its lighter weight, compared with […]
With the running up to the holidays, it is time to have a look at the recent developments in packaging for alcoholic beverages. From strong to watery. Triple Crown Whiskey […]
From the UK/Australia – Chocolate tray dissolves in water The tray of Marks & Spencer’s new packaging for its entire Swiss Chocolate Collection is made from Plantic, a material made […]
It looks like that 2010 will be a very fruitful year for development in packaging technology and design. I have an enormous number of innovations from all over the world […]
From the USA – The Smart Bottle To turn heads, you need to be different. That’s the introduction phrase Exopack uses on its website, to provide, as they state, a […]
As I said Corticeira Amorim is not the only one with innovations in natural cork stoppers. Bacchus Wine Closures in partnership with Álvaro Coelho & Irmãos (ACI), the second largest […]
Cork is harvested for commercial use primarily from the cork oak (Quercus suber) that is endemic to the western Mediterranean countries. Once the trees are about 25 years old the […]
Consumer packaged goods companies are forced to re-evaluate packaging formats and materials, as products and their packaging are inextricably linked to the trends taking place within the consumption habits. At […]
Attracting new consumers is crucial for winemakers, as consumption has been declining in most mature markets. And so the ubiquitous 750-milliliter glass wine bottle has gotten competition from new types […]
Are the packages I describe here, the result of some idiotic, stupid and incompetent designers? No, not at all, on the contrary. I just used the word ‘goofy’ to catch […]
In the beverage alcohol market it is wine which is the primary growth driver, while at the same time the wine industry’s low margins and commodity market dynamics have made […]
A major player on the highly competitive Finnish wine market, the Franco-British wine dealer and producer, Boutinot, introduced its two South-African Seriti wines in a distinctive exotic style. The Seriti […]
In a recent study conducted by Owens-Illinois which polled nearly 150 wineries in the USA, glass was still the highest used packaging material with 99-100% of the wineries still using […]
Wine always had the areola of belonging to people with a sophisticated life style, a little snobbish maybe. Certainly snobbish, when you read the lyrical descriptions of the so-called wine […]