News & Analysis for the Beverage Industry
21st Century Global Cyber Pal Student Design Challenge
Amcor Rigid Plastics invited students from Manchester elementary school, in Michigan, US, to develop packaging design concepts for juice bottles, food containers and fruit snack pouches and will showcase the results at a reception today (May 20).
Visitors from 101 countries
Show traffic was up 12.5% at Vitafoods Europe this year meaning record numbers visited the 800+ suppliers and brands at the 3-day Geneva expo and conference.
Dispatches from Canadean International Beer Strategies, Amsterdam
Social media strategies need to refrain from insistently pushing brands; but instead add value for consumers, explains Ashley Vinson, head of brand strategy Benelux, Twitter.
The WWF report offers industry a five-step plan to tackle global water scarcity and holds up certain food and drink companies for their best practice.
Special edition: Outsourcing
An trend for outsourcing science and research may be good news for contract research organisations (CROs) and open innovation partnerships, but does it mean that internal R&D is suffering?
Neenah Packaging has released two swatchbooks with colours, textures, weights and custom make options for premium packaging.
Rockwell Automation has updated its PlantPAx distributed control system (DCS) with virtualisation, batch management and integrated motor control capabilities and will showcase the system at Achema (Frankfurt, June 15-19 2015).
A UK craft distiller and a Danish food lab have collaborated to produce Anty Gin: a product using the essence of red wood ants and botanicals.