Rigid Plastics’ Circularity: Demand for Renewable Packaging Intensifies
Rosemarie Downey
There is ever-growing expectation for sustainable packaging. The search for better is reflected in consumer sentiment and regulatory attention. The focus on plastic goes wide with regulation increasingly the lever used to secure more rapid progress on the road towards a circular economy.
Three Packaging Strategies to Adopt in Times of Cost Pressures
Rosemarie Downey
The consumer packaging industry is typically strong in its ability to withstand crises, given the importance of everyday groceries to global revenues; food and drink accounted for 92% of retail packaging volume sales in 2023. However, inflation, interest rates and geopolitical instability serve to amplify operating costs, for packaging converters/machinery players, brands, and retailers, apparent in the final retail price point, paid by the consumer.
World of Private Label International Trade Show
Ana Tique
For more than 35 years, PLMA’s annual World of Private Label International Trade Show has brought retailers together with manufacturers to network with new and existing clients, explore new markets and drive business growth.
World Food Poland 2024
Simona Bernatonyte
The international food fair World Food Poland is a meeting of the entire food industry, a place for integration and conversations about the food market, numerous discussion panels, conferences with opinion leaders, meetings with representatives of retail chains, and a cross-section of new products.
ISM Cologne 2024
Tristan Hover
The world's leading trade fair for sweets and snacks! A successful combination between impulses and innovations, exciting networking, first-class exhibitors and competent visitors forms an offer that is unique around the globe.
Top Drink Trends at the IFT FIRST Conference
Nik Allen
As explored in Euromonitor International’s recent food-focused article, the Institute of Food Technologist’s (IFT) annual conference highlights the newest developments in food and ingredient production, research, and innovation. While the primary focus of the conference was on trends and breakthroughs in the food industry, the implications of the findings and concerns in the edible space hold relevance in the potable space. The nutritional trends and expansive academic studies warrant a closer look.
Key Trends and Growth Markets for Beauty Packaging
Jeremy Roberts
This article examines Euromonitor's latest research and data on beauty and personal care packaging, to give an understanding of the key trends and how they're shaping demand, and which countries are the key growth markets to watch.
Focus on Supply Chain Resilience Increases Amid Global Risks
Justinas Liuima
Supply chain optimisation is one of the key trends in the manufacturing sector that will shape the global manufacturing landscape over the next decade. Increased economic uncertainty, rising geopolitical tensions, the need to improve operational efficiency and still prevalent transportation bottlenecks drive the need to improve supply chain resilience to better withstand future shocks.
Tracking Annual Consumer Sentiment on Sustainability in Packaging
Jared Conway
In recent years, the global sustainability movement has propelled consumers to scrutinise every aspect of their purchasing decisions, particularly when it comes to the packaging of the products they purchase. However, once highly regarded sustainable solutions in packaging are now facing wavering consumer sentiment.