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Promotional Plastic Bags Great for Advertising Seasonal Offers
Retailers have long taken advantage of the free advertising that can be had by handing purchases over to customers in promotional carry bags. They make sure the bags are emblazoned with store logos, business phone numbers, web addresses or any other | READ MORE
More Attention Needed To Sugar In Foods
Despite the overwhelming amount of information available on diets and the benefits of healthy eating, our obesity epidemic shows no signs of declining. Perhaps there is simply too much information available, making it difficult for people to make informed | READ MORE
Some Plastic Packaging Hard To Open
One of the many changes people find that creep ups on them as they age is a loss of strength, especially in their hands and fingers. While many people over 50 maintain a healthy level of activity through walking, sport and socialising, spending time | READ MORE
Reducing Fat Intake In Daily Diet Essential To Good Health
It is rather a sad indictment on our western society that in the past thirty years the number of people officially classed as obese has risen to over 50% of the population. One of the key reasons for this, apart from our general lack of regular exercise, | READ MORE
Modern Food Packaging Designed To Withstand Temperatures
Food was to wrap fish and chips in greaseproof paper, and seal in the heat with a layer of newspaper. The best method available for cold food if the household didn’t possess a refrigerator, was an ice box kept reasonably cold, funnily enough, with | READ MORE
Branded Plastic Bags A Hit With Marketing Gurus
These are challenging times for marketers. Twenty years ago, television was king, and any worthwhile marketing campaign included a clever commercial and perhaps a jingle that was shown at peak viewing time, wormed its way into our heads, and popped into | READ MORE
Well-Designed Packaging Part Of Customer Experience
Marketing as a concept evolved in the early twentieth century from early attempts by shopkeepers and manufacturers to make their goods or products visually attractive to potential customers. Through a process of trial and error, early retailers identified | READ MORE
How To Read A Nutrition Panel
Consumers generally have never been more aware of the role diet plays in the overall state of our health. The popularity of television programs about weight-loss, lifestyle and culinary pursuits speaks volumes for the number of people now trying to make | READ MORE
Easy Tear Food Packaging A Convenient Alternative
As consumers, we have all been in the situation where we are desperately trying to quickly get into a packet of some type of food, and find to our frustration that one of two possible scenarios is played out. Number one is that it’s so tamper-proof | READ MORE
Do You Know Which Plastics Can Be Recycled?
It’s an accepted ritual in every suburb in Australia where the local authorities provide a separate bin for recycling - separate the recyclable material, put it in the bin with the yellow lid (or whatever other colour differentiates it from household | READ MORE
Printed Banners A Low-Cost Way To Sell A Message
There are very few organisations selling a product or service that don’t spend money on advertising, and larger businesses usually have an advertising budget, some more generous than others. No matter how large or small the amount available, every | READ MORE
Canned Or Plastic Packaged Fruit - Which Is Best?
There was a time when many suburban gardens had small orchards growing behind the house. It was childhood bliss to play for hours with friends in the back yard, climbing the trees to pick the ripening fruit when hunger pangs interrupted the game. Oranges, | READ MORE
Food Packaging An Important Ally In The Preservation of Vegetables
One of the boons to our busy lifestyle has been the advent of frozen vegetables and to a lesser extent, fruit. At the end of a hectic day, the sheer convenience of taking a packet of frozen vegetables from the freezer and having it on the table ready | READ MORE
Acrylamide - A New Finding In Food Science
There is an incredible amount of conflicting information about the foods eaten in Western society, usually tied to the latest diet fad promising to melt kilos. When not connected to weight loss the other burning issue for consumers is health, specifically | READ MORE
BPA In Plastic Packaging Under The Microscope
The high quality of modern packaging has allowed consumers to have the utmost confidence in the integrity of the contents, so any issue that causes us to question that confidence is a concern worth investigating. Recent world-wide media reports of possible | READ MORE
Labelling Of GM Foods A Must
Early humans were masters at the art of observing nature, and understandably so, as often their survival depended upon it. Predicting natural events like severe storms, earthquakes, tsunamis and the like by observing behavioural changes in animals, hours | READ MORE
Basic Information On Product Recalls
As consumers, we have become accustomed to having most of our food pre-packged in some form or other, and we also have confidence in the information on the packaging regarding the food inside i.e. its nutritional content, the additives and colourings | READ MORE
Banner Advertising Now All The Rage
With the cost of advertising increasing each year, getting the most coverage from the advertising dollar has become a vital part of every organisation’s marketing efforts. Print media is under pressure from digital options like web pages and email | READ MORE
Food Additives - A Quick Explanation
Australians generally enjoy some of the best food in the world with a ready supply of fresh and processed food moving through our supply networks every day. We are spoiled for choice in terms of variety, quality and price and the most important characteristic | READ MORE
Information Overload On Food Packaging
As consumers have become better educated and more health conscious, they have, over the past two decades, demanded more information about the nutrient content of packaged foodstuffs. Campaigns by organizations such as Choice (formerly the Australian | READ MORE
Food Packaging Disclosures Must Be In Plain Sight
Modern food packaging is convenient, eye catching, functional and designed to not only keep the contents fresh for extended periods of time, but also to protect them from contamination. Despite the fact that the food industry is now one of the most regulated, | READ MORE
Printed Plastic Bags Get The Word Around Fast
Those misguided marketing analysis who have suggested that the bulk of any company’s marketing budget should be poured into strategies such as newspaper advertising, should take a trip on public transport and look at the carry bags that most commuters | READ MORE
All About Polyethylene Bags
If you've ever gone grocery shopping and used one of those ubiquitous plastic bags to bring your purchases home, you've already been acquainted with polyethylene. After all, polyethylene is the substance out of which those bags are made. All of the positive | READ MORE
The Benefits of Plastic Bags
Whether you own a grocery store or another type of retail outlet, it's important to give your customers a way to carry the items that they purchase to their homes. Without a doubt, plastic bags are the most convenient ways of doing this. For many years | READ MORE
Why it Pays to Buy Australian-Made Products
Globalisation has brought many benefits to the world. While Australia relies on many products that come from other countries, a huge range of products - and produce - are made right here. Whenever Australian-made products are available, it is always | READ MORE
Food Packaging Suppliers and Labelling
Finding the right packaging for the food that you produce can be a confusing thing. Once you've settled upon a design that will help market your food in the best way possible - and keep it fresh and safe to use - you have to deal with another important | READ MORE
Tips for Developing the Right Food Packaging
When trying to successfully market a food product, there are many important considerations to keep in mind. In addition to developing an exceptional product, you're going to need to package it in an attractive and useful way. Without the right food packaging, | READ MORE
Help the Environment with Reusable Bags
As a retailer, your top priority has to be keeping your customers happy. These days, consumers are more conscientious about saving the planet than ever - and most of them have hundreds of used plastic grocery bags stuffed in drawers, cabinets and cupboards | READ MORE
Food Packaging and Social Issues
Most of us don't give a whole lot of thought to the plastic food packaging that we use; we generally rip it open, dispose of it then carry on about our normal business. However, packaging suppliers are well aware of the many social issues that come into | READ MORE
Glass Packaging in Australia
Packaging suppliers in Australia are continually looking for ways to reduce the amount of waste that goes into landfills. After all, the food and drinks that you buy are packaged in a variety of different materials; once you've opened them, you're left | READ MORE
Aluminium Packaging in Australia
Drink cans are among the most well known forms of aluminium packaging in Australia today. Chances are, you currently have at least a few of them in your home. One of the reasons they are so ubiquitous is because they are so easy to recycle. Another reason | READ MORE
The Positive Impact Of Plastics In Packaging
Most of us take our plastic food packaging for granted, not realising just how beneficial it actually is. In addition to being convenient and inexpensive, it helps reduce the amount of waste that is produced in Australia each year. There are many intriguing | READ MORE
Food Packaging And The Environment
Food packaging suppliers have a lot of things to take into consideration when it comes to the design of their products. In addition to providing food packaging that is attractive, convenient and effective, suppliers must strive to meet - and exceed - | READ MORE
Paper And Cardboard Packaging Information
Many people aren't aware of it, but packaging suppliers in Australia make up a huge part of the overall recycling effort in the country. Although food packaging manufacturers generate a lot of the waste that is created each year, they are also on the | READ MORE
Food And Beverage Packaging And Waste Reduction
Australia is one of the top generators of household waste in the world. Indeed, this country places among the top ten of OECD, or Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, countries when it comes to household waste productions. Interestingly | READ MORE
Interesting Statistics About The Australian Packaging Industry
Considering how much you use and rely upon packaging materials in your daily life, it stands to reason that learning a bit more about the industry that creates them can be interesting. Packaging suppliers are a formidable force in the Australian economy, | READ MORE
Recycling And The Packaging Industry
Many people have the misconception that food packaging makes up a great deal of the total waste in the world today. The truth is, however, that packaging suppliers have always been big proponents of recycling and have always sought to have as little | READ MORE
Barcodes On Packaging
When it comes to successfully marketing and selling any given food product, the packaging that you choose is incredibly important. In addition to aesthetic concerns like the overall appeal and design of food packaging, practical considerations must be | READ MORE
Why Effective Food Packaging Matters
When coming up with suitable food packaging for a product that you're trying to market, you obviously need to make sure that it will help keep the food fresh and safe for consumption. The packaging should make sense for the kind of food that you're selling | READ MORE
The Evolution Of Packaging
Although we seldom consider it, every time we open a food product that we purchased at the store we are taking advantage of thousands of years' worth of innovation in food packaging. Whether it's the cardboard box holding our cereal, the glass jar holding | READ MORE
The Benefits Of Branded Packaging
As anyone with even the slightest bit of marketing know how is already aware, branding is a critical part of successfully marketing a business. If you aren't constantly working at achieving a notable, memorable and persuasive brand for your company, | READ MORE
The Basic Types Of Packaging
When most people think of food packaging, they think of the box that holds their cereal or the can that holds their soup. While those are, indeed, examples of packaging, they are not the only type that is out there. In order to gain a better understanding | READ MORE
Future Trends In Food Packaging
Like anything else, food packaging has to change with the times in order to remain useful and relevant. What worked back during the 1980s and the 1990s simply doesn't work today when it comes to packaging supplies. There are a handful of very important | READ MORE
The Marketing Benefits Of Reusable Bags
Saving the planet is a hot topic these days, and many Australians are getting in on the act and doing their own small part by eschewing throwaway, plastic grocery bags in favour of reusable bags - especially at many major retailers. If you own a business, | READ MORE
Why Printed Packaging Matters
When it comes to marketing your product, presentation is everything. When consumers are looking at buying your products they look for the correct information on the food packaging and how the packaging is presents the product. After all, poorly packaged | READ MORE
Food Labels Assist Consumer Decision Making
With all the different types of food packaging available to consumers, there is really no “one-size-fits-all” approach to choosing a consumer product. Every product is labelled with information designed to assist the consumer to make informed | READ MORE