Finding out what's on consumers' minds is increasingly important and enables companies to deliver innovative new products and services. Open, honest dialogue can get to the heart of customers' wants and needs. Marketers are considering new strategies and tools, thanks to the advent of Web 2.0.

Packaging Excellence Category: Kraft's Balance Bar lamination features a proprietary Ceramis® PET film barrier layer. Created by Alcan Packaging, the silicon-oxide-coated film combines outstanding optical clarity with high barrier properties. The result was a package that provides a crystal-clear window to highlight the appearance of the organic bar, which is load...

Winners of the Industrial Designers awards, such as those created for Cingular, Sephora and Target, combine innovation with a neo-retro appearance.

A strategy to simplify the shopping experience is the key to building your brand at retail.

Sustainable packaging is clearly a hot topic and an area of increasing focus for the packaging industry. Specifically, the efforts and initiatives of major retailers (most notably, Wal-Mart) have elevated sustainability from an abstract goal to an immediate priority.

Fibrestar Drums Ltd in Disley, near Stockport, is the largest producer of fibre drums and packaging solutions in the UK. Their technical expertise and knowledge has helped to produce customised fibre drums for the food, pharmaceutical and chemical industries since 1948.

The all-new Videojet 1000 series of small character inkjet printers provide even more uptime than the previous models, enabling greater customer productivity.