December 2024

As we enter the cooler months and the much-loved mandarin comes into season, Coles has done away with the plastic net bag and has instead launched packets of the lunchbox staple in a recyclable paper bag.

The new-look packaging solution for Coles Unique Selection mandarins will avoid the use of 11,700 kilograms of plastic in one year and can be recycled kerbside. 

Dole Packaged Foods LLC, Thousand Oaks, California, recently announced a significant shift toward sustainable packaging.

Beginning this summer, the company says it will use paper-based materials for the packaging of its popular Smoothie Bowl line, adding that the new packaging design eliminates 97 percent of plastic packaging across the entire product lineup, which includes Acai Original, Acai Protein, Mango Gets Mangosteen and Strawberry Meets Aronia flavors.

“Art serves as a potent medium for Absolut due to its ability to evoke emotions, spark conversations and challenge dimensions,” says Deb Dasgupta, vice-president global marketing for Absolut Vodka. Art has long played an important part in the brand’s creative expression. For Absolut, it’s about more than visual beauty. It holds the power to unite people; to enable them to connect regardless of differences, or distances worldwide.

Hostess’ updated logo keeps its trademark red heart but brings a “more playful” font style, brighter color palette and new cloud-shaped border “celebrating the light and airy quality of every Hostess snack,” according to Orrville-based J.M. Smucker, which closed the $5.6 billion Hostess Brands Inc. acquisition just over a year ago.

“The new packaging will begin to roll out in January and will be reflected nationally across the entire portfolio, all packaging formats and in all distributions upon completion,” said Aundrea Graver, director of marketing at J.M. Smucker.

Local and regional production of diagnostics is a priority for WHO as it can strengthen diagnostic capacity, enhance pandemic preparedness and increase access to essential health tools where they are most needed. Partners such as PEPFAR have set ambitious targets to procure 15 million African-manufactured HIV tests by 2025, and this timely addition of a packaging and shipping site marks a significant step toward achieving that goal.

The Highland Community Waste Partnership (HCWP) has teamed up with the German sustainable packaging company Vytal to introduce this initiative.

The scheme aims to enlist 20 businesses from the region. The UK generates 11 billion pieces of packaging waste annually due to on-the-go lunch habits.

The HCWP’s #ChooseToReuse campaign seeks to mitigate this by promoting reusable alternatives.

The new bottle, also the brand’s first bespoke bottle, is produced and decorated at AGP-Europe’s Limmared facility in Sweden. Its updated design features the Hernö copper still, with the wording ‘Hernö Gin Distillery Home of Swedish Gin’ embossed on the shoulder of the bottle.

Mintel launched the Mintel Spark. This new product concept generator is a catalyst for market-leading innovation for consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands.
 
Mintel Spark was designed to address this slump and assist brands throughout the innovation process.   
 
Matt Nelson, Mintel CEO, said: 
 
“By combining trusted Mintel expertise with AI, Spark connects the dots between consumer, innovation, and market insights to reveal the opportunities with strong market potential, giving brands the confidence to move forward.”