All Packaging articles
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Comment and Opinion
Why don’t brands listen to gen Z’s interest in packaging?
Brands should take note of the content creators educating younger consumers about packaging, says Gillian Garside-Wight, consulting director at packaging consultancy Aura
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Events and Awards
Grocer Gold Awards 2024: Sustainability Initiative of the Year
An intervention with the potential to deliver a “massive impact” in the battle against packaging waste, said our judges
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Range Preview
Preview some of the 130 new launches into Waitrose’s No.1 range
New additions include sausage from pigs sired by pedigree Hampshire boars and Belgian blonde chocolate florentines from a Dorset bakery founded in 1916
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Category Report
Lunch trends 2024: Why lunch is going places
As food-to-go options get more adventurous, brands are looking to broaden the horizons of lunchboxes, too. Who’s winning?
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News
John West launches sustainable packaging innovation
The tuna giant has eliminated excess packaging from its range so it now includes no shrink wrap or cardboard
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Category Report
Sauces & condiments trends 2024: Posh restaurants tap into Asian trend
Posh restaurants are launching table sauces to tap the UK’s Asian food craze. How are the market’s established players responding?
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News
Morrisons launches limited-edition retro butter to mark 125-year anniversary
The anniversary product is a nod to how the company started as an egg and butter market stall in Bradford
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Comment and Opinion
More woe for the fresh produce sector as cleanliness continues to challenge
As the weather warms and Brits get ready to up their intake of fresh salads, more food safety concern has hit the sector
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Analysis and Features
What’s driving the flurry of premium own label NPD?
Waitrose and Asda are the latest with big premium tier launches
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News
Saputo ditches cover papers on spreads in move to slash packaging
Cover papers were were superfluous, having traditionally been used to flatten the product for even filling and to provide a surface for promotional messages, Saputo said
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News
Still time to enter The Grocer New Product & Packaging Awards 2024
Have you developed a fantastic new product or packaging innovation in the past 18 months?
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News
Mars Wrigley trials second display unit made from cocoa beans in Tesco
The unit is made from a corrugated cardboard alternative developed in partnership with sustainability consultancy Medoola
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Comment and Opinion
EPR could cause an extinction event among British SMEs
The solution would be to delay this tax to coincide with the DRS on PET and cans, says Pev Manners, MD at Belvoir Farm
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News
Aldi claims UK supermarket first with recycled content in own label crisp packets
The change will eliminate about 78 tonnes of virgin plastic from use annually, according to Aldi
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News
Waitrose relaunches premium own label No.1
’It’s probably one of the biggest brand relaunches in UK grocery this year,’ Waitrose customer director Nathan Ansell told The Grocer
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News
Sainsbury’s scraps plastic packaging on fish and chicken lines
All own-brand salmon fillet trays are switching to pulp cardboard instead of plastic, which will save 346 tonnes of plastic per year
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Comment and Opinion
The plastic tax isn’t working: the next government must sort it
Many of the flagship policies dreamed up on the environment in 2010, at least when it comes to the food and drink industry, are at best still just dreams
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The Big Interview
Edgewell’s Katharine Goodchild on Wilkinson Sword’s flashing blades
As Wilkinson Sword kicks off a radically different marketing campaign, Edgewell is focusing on perfecting the basics of shaving
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News
Jones Food Company debuts new SKUs in Asda and Ocado
From 10 June, shoppers can find the new Home Grown Crispy Mixed Salad in Asda stores and online
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News
Tesco laser etches avocado labels to help the environment
The high-powered lasers remove a minute section of the top layer of avocado skin, etching size information on the fruit as directed by a computer program