More than any other liquid food segment, wine is tightly linked to glass packaging. This resistance to change is a combination of strong consumer attachment to glass packaging and necessary product protection. Today, about 20 billion wine bottles are manufactured and sold, mainly in the 750 mL format.

Cup-o-jay, designed by Ken Gruhl, a student at the Michigan State University, was the winner of the 2010 Flexible Packaging Student Design Challenge. We have taken a detailed look at this concept. The novelty of this concept is not in the package format itself, as this type of package has been used with single serve […]

We had covered Sun Chips compostable chip package on April 25, 2010. You can find the review here. The advertisement for the package started airing in the US this week. It provides us with additional information regarding its compost rate. ©2010 PackageRepublic.com. All Rights Reserved.

Tropicana offers its products in a variety of package formats around the world. Here in the US, larger packages with handles are quite prevalent in the market. Between the ½ gallon and one gallon sizes, Tropicana has this oddly sized HDPE package. Apart from its odd capacity, there is nothing unusual about the package. The […]

There are two methods of implementing tamper prevention devices on food packaging. One method is to provide evidence when the package barrier is broken. The other method is to tamper proof the package. While these two methods may seem similar, they are indeed quite different.

In our previous article, Minimalist packaging: Bahlsen Hit cookies, we evaluated a traditional petit beurre package that had not kept up with the times. Today, we ran a similar package usability analysis on the current Oreo cookie package in the US market. The results are drastically different. The Oreo package not only surpasses Bahlsen type […]

The Wall Street Journal has an article on plastic cork closures in today’s edition. There are some rather interesting industry facts that are revealed in the article. Cork was first used as a bottle closure by Dom Perignon in the late 1600s. Natural cork still has a 69% market share today, but that market share […]