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Aerosols have again proven their popularity by winning a swag of awards at the UK’s premier packaging awards night held on 15 May. Aerosols have taken out a number of top awards at the 2007 edition of Starpack, the United Kingdom’s premier packaging awards.
The Best Toiletries/Cosmetics Pack category was monopolised by metal packaging, with Unilever’s Sure brand deodorant aerosol winning gold.
Joint-silver also went to Unilever for their Lynx/Axe brand aerosol-deodorant produced by French company Boxal in impact-extruded aluminium cans.
The aerosol also won the Silver award in the Best Non-Food Consumer Pack category.
Ambi Pur’s Puresse aerosol air-freshener that features new shaping technology also took home the silver award in the Starpack Awards’ newest category for Best Creative Pack Using Metal. Continued over page...
Issue 12 30 May 2007
Aerosols CleAn Up At stArpACK
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Ambi Pur’s aerosol took relatively new shaping technology to its extremes to achieve expansion levels of 30 per cent. It achieved this by using pneumatic blow-forming of a distortion-printed 52mm by 161mm standard-shaped can.
The gold award in the hotly contested new category was taken out by an aluminium bottle used by Coca-Cola for its Burn energy drink.
The impact-extruded bottle which features an extended neck and a ring-pull crown closure also collected the silver award in the Best Printed Pack category for its use of UV inks to give a ‘glow in the dark’ effect, and its use of six offset colours to create the flame motif.
The awards ceremony was held at the National Motorcycle Museum on 15 May in Birmingham and featured 69 finalists.
The awards are designed to help raise packaging standards in the UK by rewarding and encouraging creativity.
Designs by Students and Schools are also showcased as part of the awards in order to encourage young designers to present their packaging ideas.
The Student Can Maker Award was won by a Finnish student for her redesign of a Carling Beer can.
Source: The Canmaker Online, 18 May 2007
HoMegroWn neWsAnd tHen tHere Were tWoUK supermarket giant Tesco has walked away from the sale of the Coles Group, leaving the Coles board of directors with only two interested parties in taking ownership of the Australian retailer.
Tesco’s withdrawal comes only weeks after it seemed to be stepping up its interest in bidding for Coles and leaves just Westfarmers and a private equity group led by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) in the running.
Although domestic competitor Woolworths has expressed an interest, it appears that, like other parties, the interest was only in Target and Officeworks and not the total business.
According to Foodweek, Tesco lost interest when it realised it could obtain a much better return on investment in other markets and the opportunity comes at a time when it is preparing a major assault on the west coast of the United States with its new Fresh and Easy supermarket chain (see: Fresh and Easy Starts Green).
The KKR consortium has entered the Coles Group data room to evaluate the retailer’s financial and operating information but the group’s approach has so far been low-key.
Source: Foodweek, 11 & 18 May 2007
BrigHtlite’s BrigHt ideA
An innovative new wine label has hit the shelves and it is challenging every traditional wine bottling technique by selling its product in an aluminium screw-top bottle.
Australian label Brightlite – the second brand from independent wine company JMB Beverages – is targeting consumers looking for low-alcohol content wine that still maintains the flavours, characteristics and mouthfeel of traditional wine.
At only 6.5 per cent alcohol content, the wine is well below the industry standard of 13 per cent and is available in red, white and rosé varieties.
The bottle is recyclable, shatterproof, contains a pilfer-proof screw cap to maintain freshness and JMB claims it chills 20 per cent faster and the bottle is 30 per cent lighter than its glass counterparts.
Last year JMB’s other offering, a non-alcoholic wine, became the largest selling non-alcoholic wine brand in Coles Supermarkets and Brightlite has been snapped up by the Australian retailer and is being rolled out in Liquorland and First Choice bottle shops.
JMB Director Jarrod Myles said the company was not simply trying to compete against existing products.
“We are carving a niche and aim to increase wine consumption in the industry through pushing the positive attributes of a brand like Brightlite such as the health benefits, the fact the bottle is recyclable and its attractive packaging,” he said.
Source: Food Magazine and Food & Drink Business Magazine, May 2007
it’s A soy! Wyeth Nutritionals has relaunched its soy-based infant formula, replacing its two-line range with a new one-product line called S-26 Soy.
Packaged in a 900g can and replacing the Infasoy and Infasoy Progress lines, the formula is designed to be consumed by infants from birth to 24 months.
S-26 Soy is a lactose-free, cow’s milk-protein-free, soy protein insolate formula which is intended for infants intolerant of lactose, recovering from diarrhoea or allergic to cow’s milk proteins.
Wyeth Nutritionals also provides a free soy recipe booklet through its website.
Source: Retail World, 14-25 May 2007
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HeAven in A MUgLovers of Nestlé’s Heaven ice-cream range can cure their winter withdrawals with the launch of Heaven Real Hot Chocolate.
The Heaven hot chocolate range is available in three flavours: smooth milk chocolate, creamy white chocolate and bittersweet dark chocolate.
Heaven Real Hot Chocolate does not use powder like traditional hot chocolates, relying on real chocolate drops that melt in hot milk or water.
The drops are packaged in a 240g reusable can and become the fourth product in Nestlé’s Heaven indulgence range of products, joining the popular range of ice-creams, chocolate and yoghurt.
Heaven Real Hot Chocolate has a RRP of $5.99 and is available in store now.
Source: Retail World, 14-25 May 2007
Friendly neigHBoUrHood nesqUiK CAnCoinciding with the launch of the Hollywood blockbuster movie Spider-Man 3, Nestlé is giving away glow-in-the-dark sticker scenes on specially marked 500g cans of Chocolate or Strawberry Nesquik.
Each sticker scene contains three glow-in-the-dark stickers and there are four scenes to collect.
The Nesquik Spider-Man 3 promotional cans are available now while stocks last.
Source: Nestle.com.au
trend WAtCHA neW ideA BlooMsAnother new chain of grocery stores in the United States is incorporating innovative customer-friendly practices and technologies to deliver a vastly different supermarket experience for its customers.
The Bloom chain of stores is living up to its ‘Shop Happy’ motto by giving shoppers among other things personal scanners, in-store instant messaging and an average checkout time only a little more than 30 seconds.
By swiping their Bloom Breeze Cards, shoppers can get complimentary personal scanners to carry around the store allow them to scan items as they bag them in their trolley.
The self-scanning concept is increasing in momentum across the globe and at Bloom they provide a running tally of how much customers are spending and also allow Bloom to send instant messages to customers, alerting them when prescriptions have been filled or their deli orders are ready for pick-up.
When they are ready to check out, shoppers simply go to any check-out lane and scan an ‘end of trip’ barcode and the order automatically downloads to a register, so there’s no need to unload and reload the cart.
This process also brings down the average checkout time to just 32.7 seconds.
Based on nearly two years of consumer research and analysis, Bloom stores also feature customer-friendly aisle layouts, kiosks for downloading recipe ideas or learning about wine selections and there are even interactive information stations to help shoppers easily track down items on their shopping lists.
There are currently 52 Bloom stores based on the east coast of the US, with plans to convert and re-brand dozens more Food Lion stores.
Source: Foodweek Online, 27 April 2007
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neWs snippetThe world’s largest food fair will take place from 13-17 October at the new Cologne exhibition centre. With more than 6000 exhibitors from around 100 countries, Anuga encompasses 10 specialised trade shows under one roof. The trade shows include the newly-created specialist trade fair Anuga Organic, a consistent further development of the previous main theme ‘Organic World’ into an independent, internationally aligned trade fair platform. The other individual shows are Fine Food, Drinks, Chilled Food, Meat, Frozen Food, Dairy; Bread, Bakery and Hot Beverages; Organics, Catering Technology and Retail Technology. For more information see the Upcoming Events page.
environMentAlFresH And eAsy stArts green Tesco’s new United States operation Fresh & Easy Neighbourhood Market has announced the arrival of the first of its ‘green’ distribution trailers.
The trailers feature a refrigeration unit which minimises the amount of diesel used to cool and transport store products.
The unit shuts down when optimum temperature is reached and, when parked, the trailer switches to electrical power to further reduce diesel use. In addition, the trailers are designed to cut audible noise by 66 per cent.
Fresh & Easy Neighbourhood Market CEO Tim Mason was pleased the new supermarket chain would start life with strong green credentials
“As a new company in the US, we have had the opportunity to work with leaders in green technology to create, from the ground up, an entire fleet of aerodynamic, fuel-efficient and neighbourhood-friendly trailers in our first round of manufacturing,” he said.
The supermarket chain is also cutting energy use by using solar panels, LED lighting and modified freezers and refrigerators, and it claims that its distribution centre will have the largest solar panel roof installation in California.
Source: Retail World News Bites, 28 May 2007
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World neWsBAli resUMes CAnned FisH exportsCanned fish exports rose 266.5 per cent in Bali for the first quarter of 2007, marking a near four-fold increase over the same period last year according to the province’s trade and industry office.
The popular tourist haven exported 1860 tonnes of canned fish worth US$2.6 million, compared with the 330 tonnes worth US$725,000 it exported over the same period in 2006.
The result is encouraging as canned fish disappeared from Bali’s export commodity list some time ago, not because production had ceased, but canned fish exports were instead shipped from Surabaya, East Java so the export records were not recorded for Bali.
Bali’s canned fish industry is located in Jembrana, 80km west of Bali’s capital Denpasar with the US, Japan, Taiwan and Singapore the most popular export destinations.
Singapore is also the main destination for canned meat produced in Denpasar.
Source: Aerosol-Forum.com, 10 May 2007.
HAWAiiAn pineApple prodUCtion lei-ed to rest The United States’ last pineapple cannery will be closed by the end of June, the move affecting the National School Lunch Program (NSLP).
Effective from 30 June, Maui Land and Pineapple based in Kahului, Hawaii will close its pineapple canning business to concentrate on fresh fruit sales, although the company will continue to process pineapple juice and extend its fresh fruit line to include products for institutional accounts.
The end of canned pineapple production in the US will have repercussions for the NSLP, a federally assisted meal program operating in public and non-profit private schools and residential child care institutions, because all products in the program must be US produced and of domestic origin.
The cessation of pineapple production will mean that school lunch fruit cocktail and mixed fruit may no longer contain pineapple.
The NSLP aims to provide nutritionally balanced, low-cost or free lunches to children each school day and was established by former President Harry Truman in 1946.
Source: Foodnews, 4 May 2007
tUrning over A neW leAF
A British company that sells custom-blended tea in a can is bringing an added personal touch to the breakfast table.
Blends For Friends is a range of teas that, as the name suggests, is mainly ordered for others and definitely makes for a quirky gift.
Run by master tea blender Alex Probyn, gift-givers are requested to tell the company all about their friend by providing information from their date of birth and job description, to the recipient’s
physical appearance and hobbies. And of course the type of tea they usually drink.
The more information master blender Probyn is given, the better suited the blend will be.
Probyn worked as a ‘master tea taster’ for a large tea brand for years, when he started blending individual teas for friends and family based on their personalities and eventually the idea caught on.
Blends For Friends will send your chosen recipient 100g of loose leaf tea, packaged in a reusable gift-wrapped can with a bespoke label referring to the recipient and the different teas used in the blend.
The company also creates blends for corporate clients and teas for weddings. For more information visit www.blendsforfriends.com
Source: Springwise.com, 23 May 2007
neWs snippetLater this year a new artichoke canning facility will begin production in Chile producing canned artichoke hearts and quarters. Aconcagua Foods canned artichokes will either be marinated or in brine and will be available in either 450g or 2.5kg size cans. Another major processor in the country, Conservera Pentzke SA, will also begin canning whole artichokes as well as hearts and quarters in brine.
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neWs snippetDairy Australia has launched an online resource for primary schools to help teachers, students, canteens and parents appreciate the health benefits of dairy food as part of a healthy lifestyle. The Discover Dairy website contains information that highlights the benefit of consuming three serves of dairy a day and can be found at www.dairy.edu.au/discoverdairy
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UpCoMing events
18–20 septeMBerAerosols 2007 international Convention Centre and g-Mex exhibition Hall
Manchester
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Visit www.aerosols2007.co.uk
13–17 oCtoBerAnuga – Food and Beverage trade Fair
Cologne, germany
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23–24 oCtoBer2007 tomato Forumistanbul, turkey
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200720–22 JUne51st World Food Business summitshanghai, ChinaVisit www.ciessummit.com
26–27 JUnepackaging summit europeAmsterdam, netherlandsVisit www.pkgeurope.com
14–16 AUgUstretail expo Australasia and the national retail Forum Melbourne exhibition Centre
17–19 septeMBerFeA international Congress exhibition Aerosols 2007Manchester, UK
