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A Plan for Sustainable Success Marks & Spencer aims to become the world's most sustainable retailer by 2015. Packaging technical manager Gordon Henman tells Patricia Roffey about the company's ethos on...
Sense and Sustainability The recession may have forced retailers to look harder at cutting their packaging spend, but for some this has not come at the expense of the strategic issues in the packaging...
Chain Reaction While the recession has sounded the death toll for many companies, one of the biggest supermarkets appears to be thriving. Packaging & Converting Intelligence reviews Tesco's trading...
Golden Rules The recession has caused companies to look hard at the way they operate and at how consumer behaviour has changed. Jay Gouliard, VP packaging for Unilever, tells Lucy Schwerdtfeger how his...
Wal-Mart - Leading the Sustainability Pack? Wal-Mart has embarked on a fiercely ambitious global sustainability policy that is likely to have strong repercussions for the packaging industry. Alex Hawkes...
Dawn of Opportunity A changing global market means the packaging industry must operate in new ways. Dr Carl Olsmats, general secretary of the World Packaging Organisation, tells PCI how companies must act now if...
Wal-Mart Takes the Lead on Sustainable Packaging Wal-Mart's packaging scorecard may have sent a shiver down the spines of some suppliers when it launched last year. However, Matt Kistler, Wal-Mart's VP for package and product innovations,...
Big, Green and Clever The packaging industry is no stranger to calls for improvements in waste recycling and environmental performance. Packaging suppliers, however, cannot act alone in improving the industry's...
A Calculated Risk Adopting new packaging innovations are a risk for any company, but as Phillippe Roulet, head of global packaging material and training at Nestec Ltd, explains, if done correctly it can...
Plastic to dominate healthy growth The health of the packaging industry tends to mirror production trends in the various packaged goods industries. Esther Palevsky, industry analyst with Freedonia Group, runs through predictions...
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