Soap Box – have your say on oil and food prices

This is your chance to air your views on how packaging is represented in the media and the wider world – is the industry getting a fair deal, or is the mainstream media getting it wrong on packaging?

This week we pick up on a BBC report on how the rocketing price of oil is forcing up packaging costs and therefore the price of food.

The film features Adam Barnett, marketing manager for Linpac, argues that a 12% price rise that his company is about to announce, forced on the firm by the soaring cost of oil, highlights an issue affecting the whole industry.

Rectangular packaging, the report goes on to claim, is less wasteful of materials than circular designs – and is therefore the key to fighting the inflation in oil costs.

Watch the video here.

So, over to you. How is the rising oil price affecting your business? Are you able to pass on price increases to your customers? And is the BBC right to suggest that packaging design is one of the key to fighting inflation? Log in and have your say below.

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