Marketing and design

Positive reactions to the RPC (Retail Ready Packaging) Wood Like crate, proposed by Polymer Logistics for salespoints that wish to give their fresh produce section a traditional market image. From the studies carried out with consumers a full 86% are seen to prefer Wood Like RPC to the usual industrial type solution.

The P.E.T. Engineering design team was chosen by Devin, the best selling and best known mineral water brand in Bulgaria, to develop the new bottle for the launch of its Devin - Crystal Line a water intended for the HO.RE.CA sector.

Announcing the winners of the International Aluminium Tube Design Awards 2014. Novel and attractive design concepts for the aluminium tube convince with form and function. Official award ceremony at the world’s largest packaging fair, interpack 2014, in Düsseldorf

Packaging at the centre of brand politics, the consumer at the centre of the innovation process. Following this principle, Danone has built at Evian (close to its most famous source) the Research Packaging Center, where technology and creativity enter into alliance for innovation.

If you want your kids to eat healthy food don’t declaim its virtues: you will obtain the opposite effect.

EU regulation 1169/2011 will go into force starting on December 14th, 2014.

Signs of a renewed confidence indicated by multiple sources not confirmed by the fresh fruit and vegetable market.

The battle for guaranteeing the safety and to avoid the adulteration of food oil on restaurant tables now at last finds support in the “banning” of the so-called cruets. Indeed the Italian Chamber of Deputies last June 11th approved an amendment to EC law that had in fact up to now vetoed the labeling and the obligation for restaurants and public businesses to use bottles with anti refill tops.

Following the recent acquisition of the China Beauty Expo Shanghai, the Itec France-Informa group (formerly organizer of Beyond Beauty Paris) will launch Beyond Beauty Asean.

The international fruit and vegetable industry event organized annually by Cesena Fiera SpA prepares for the 2014 edition, bolstered by the strong growth that it registered last year: 24,800 certified visitors, an increase of 15%, and 820 exhibitors from 35 countries, up 2%.

The exhibition of technologies for packaging and logistics organized by MTP has grown, establishing itself in time as a landmark event in Eastern Europe.

Reed Exhibitions Japan Ltd presents the third edition of this international beauty fair, the only one of the Japanese industry and gateway to the world’s second largest market for cosmetic products.

The 27th salon of luxury packaging expands with an additional pavilion and inaugurates “LUXE formulation”: a new space dedicated to the services of formulation, packaging, filling, full-service, private label and related services. In such a way, the fair, organized by the Monegasque Idice, extends its representation to the entire supply chain, from the formulation right up to the finished and…

New paradigms People who think of people, who design a product capable of entering the life of each and anyone of us, and aboveall, capable of remaining there. The new frontier of the cosmetics market is “sharing”: the sharing of a dream - that illuminates many personal “I-worlds” - but also, first and foremost, the sharing of competency and culture, in order to multiply the potentialities that…

Five the winners of the competition promoted by Istituto Italiano Imballaggio. This year’s theme was Quality Design and, not by chance, organized in cooperation with the Scuola del Design of Politecnico di Milano. The awards ceremony during the Milan Design Week “Fuorisalone”.

A precious, elegant, exclusive limited edition. Thinking of the world of luxury, Arjowiggins Creative Papers has come up with A+S61, a “jewel” of creativity to support a high-end image.

Investments for 1.5 billion euros in the development of smart logistics solutions: a “revolution” in the world of shipment, that improves the life of the citizens.

In the month of February, based on interim figures, the Italian food sector registered a drop of -0.2% on the same month the year previous, and Italian industry as a whole showed, compared to February 2013, a +0.4%, both in interim figures as well as in the exact number of days reading.

Levissima (Sanpellegrino Group) is among the 137 virtuous companies awarded in the fifth edition of Regione Lombardia’s 2013 “Best Practices” Social Responsibility review.

Stora Enso announces the winner of the design competition Recreate Packaging 2014:  the beauty products “ Have a good trip” the work of German designer Arthur Schmidt, who won the first prize of 8,000 euros.