Following a survey conducted by ITC Research among 500 packaging decision-makers in brand owner and retail companies in 9 European countries (France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Denmark, Sweden), ThePackagingCommunity is able to deliver a representative view of who parti...

Sustainability plays a role in 70% of today’s packaging decisions, as the PackagingCommunity survey conducted in 9 European countries (1) recently confirmed. Yet which sustainability factors do packaging decision makers perceive as being relevant, and how important do they consider each of...

The pressures of the recession and calls to green-up could produce highly targeted product innovation and re-invention in the packaging chain. Marketing the changes just right will serve packaging and consumers well, writes Joanne Hunter.     Sustainability and waste issues won’t ...

The most comprehensive and wide ranging study of how much packaging a typical household shopping basket contains and what materials it is made of was published on 10th March by The European Shopping Baskets Program (ESB), a joint project of EUROPEN ( The European Organization for Packaging and the E...

In the context of non-stop evolution of the international packaging scene, there has emerged a clear need for a centralised  source of packaging information and industry data focused on the diverse needs of marketing, development, procurement and legislative decision-making. At last has c...