Steve Kelsey: Assessing your sustainability the easy way
As I drove into the office this morning, I heard the first cuckoo of spring. Radio 4 reported the banks'...
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Tom Fisher: Consumer creativity is key to reusable future
Professor of art and design at Nottingham Trent University Tom Fisher says that there is much the sector can learn from how consumers reuse old packaging
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Angus Macpherson: Forward trading could beat PRN uncertainty
The Environment Exchange (t2e), the UK's marketplace for PRNs, reached a big milestone in 2009. After...
Des King: Clear your calendar - packaging is making a show of itself again
So here we go again. Play your cards right and you could be heading up to Birming-ham's NEC on three...
Frank Wilson: Understanding infrared heat can boost efficiency and cut costs
Any plastics packaging thermoforming production system has its areas of opportunity and weakness, and...
Jo Francis: Me and my Kindle - and its disappointing box
Jo Francis, associate editor of Packaging News sister title PrintWeek , has finally unwrapped the...
Keith Barnes: The enigma of innovation
Innovation is the key to our industry breaking out of recession, says Keith Barnes, chairman of IoP:...
Clive Bowers: Government must act now before manufacturing quits UK
The corrugated packaging industry has recently been busy reminding its political representatives of...
Steve Kelsey: Three gifts for 2010 that will make us all a little wiser
The Christmas tree went up early at Kelsey Towers in 2009. It was the sort of year you want to see behind...
Martin Hardwidge: 30 pieces of silver from Tesco
Martin Hardwidge, who runs MHA Marketing Communications, a PR agency specialising in the packaging...
Shed Simove: Sexy packaging - the holy grail?
Sheridan 'Shed' Simove is a comedian, author and entrepreneur. Starting his career in TV, Shed ran many...
Des King: Taking green to the extreme doesn't represent genuine progress
After discovering that feeding his puppy has a similar carbon footprint to running a four-wheel-drive...
Walter Lewis: Key names from industry and supply chain mount green fightback
In this column from the December issue of Packaging News magazine, Walter Lewis of packaging thinktank...
Richard Gray: Unlike in the banking sector, sanity reigns for UK manufacturing
In this column from the December issue of Packaging News magazine, Richard Gray finds reason to...
Josh Brooks: FMCG giants' BRC logo claims are rubbished by the host of major brands backing its use
Packaging News editor Josh Brooks says that brands should get behind the BRC's standardised recycling...
Ann Bonner: The four ages of consumers - or how oacks should adapt as buyers change
Ann Bonner , marketing manager at Rexam, discusses how dividing consumers into four age-based categories...
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Simeon Goldstein: Here's packaging I used earlier
I do not own a Blue Peter badge. I have never made a model of Tracy Island from Thunderbirds . And,...
Josh Brooks: Answers to questions on sustainability will leave packaging free to get on with its job
Many will have been just a little wistful at the demise of the paper packaging for Sherbet Fountains...
David Elliott: An Aladdin's cave of tobacco packaging
While debate rages on packagingnews.co.uk on plain packaging for tobacco products, production editor...
Jill Park: Reasons to be cheerful
Well at last it's happened. The UK is no longer in recession. In the last quarter of 2009 the economy...
Josh Brooks: The year's most depressing day? Rubbish
Packaging News editor Josh Brooks finds the industry on the front foot on what, the papers say, was...
Simeon Goldstein: Welcome to Britain
I arrived back from my Christmas break at Heathrow Terminal 4. The first thing that greeted me after...
David Elliott: Could old packaging live on as art?
Yesterday, the best album covers of 2009 were announced to a flurry of media interest. British rock...
David Elliott: Smoking Santa and the plain-pack brigade
Father Christmas. We know him as a rotund, genial gift-giver who works tirelessly around the year to...
Jill Park: The Godfather of wine
The Godfather trilogy, Apocalypse Now and ahem Jack are some of the films Francis Ford Coppola...
Simeon Goldstein: Thinking outside the bottle
Last week, I received a number of concept designs for wine bottles from container glass manufacturer...
Josh Brooks: Is it fair to hate clamshells?
Packaging News editor Josh Brooks questions a survey claiming that Canadian parents can't stand clamshells....
Jill Park: The red cups are back
Well, it's officially Christmas. Starbucks have brought back their red cups and the store nearest Haymarket...
David Elliott: The potential of special editions isn't limited
Packaging News production editor David Elliott looks at quality drinks brands that are investing...
Josh Brooks: When bag-in-box aims for the stars
In this blog, Packaging News editor Josh Brooks tests a new bag-in-box wine pack from the world's...
Simeon Goldstein: Plus ça change
Like most people, my holidays are a chance to recharge the batteries and switch off from the day-to-day...
Vox Pop
Vox Pop: Will reusables become more widely used?
Last month, a Wrap-funded trial of reusable packaging for fabric conditioner, backed by names such...
Vox Pop: Will 2010 be a better year for UK packaging?
Last year, the recession struck a blow to industries across the country, and the packaging sector was...
Vox Pop: should recyclable waste be banned from landfill?
UK packaging recycling has been boosted by a resurgence in steel recovery and the government is set...
Vox Pop: Are brand owners' packs innovative enough?
Last month, Packaging News readers voted on the brands they most admire for having best used packaging...
Vox Pop: Is the rise of own-brands good for packaging?
With frugal shoppers tightening their belts in these straitened times, supermarket own-label brands...
Vox Pop: Should packaging designs be made more fun?
Following pack revamps such as Elmwood's quirky redesign for Anchor's squirty cream last month, we...
Vox pop: Should UK packaging regulations be tighter?
Last month, two firms were penalised under the Essential Requirements regulations, bringing the total...
Vox Pop: Is digital printing the future for packaging?
Paul France, Procter & Gamble's head of printing innovation worldwide, said at the launch of an HP...
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