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Transparency of the product is a selling point asset for brand owners within soft drinks in France. This trend therefore enabled PET bottles to gain ground within 100% juices in 2012, thanks to the success of Tropicana in PET bottles in the size of 850ml in November 2010. According to trade press, PepsiCo France SNC was able to recruit 170,000 new purchaser households in 2011. Such a performance led the company to upsize PET bottles for the Tropicana Pure Premium range by launching in December 2011 the size of 1,300ml within 100% juices in retail, hence the positive growth in 2012.

Dog and cat food continued to be in the nascent stage in 2012. Such products are bought by only rich consumers in upmarket parts of metropolitan cities like Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore. Since such products have limited demand in an Indian context, their packaging was therefore dominated by a few pack types and sizes. For example, flexible packaging accounted for 73% of total packaging units in 2012. Flexible packaging is light in weight and protects dog and cat food from moisture, which means it has widespread application.

Soft drinks continue to be the highly dominant contributor for beverage packaging in Indonesia as growing convenience pushes people to enjoy drinks in a ready-to-drink format and growing health awareness raises demand for functional drinks. Being in a hot tropical climate, enjoying cool soft drinks has become one of the necessities to quenching thirst among Indonesians. The strong growth of convenience stores, which are equipped with spacious refrigerators to store various types of chilled soft drinks, therefore spurred growth of soft drinks during the review period. The usage of ice cubes by traditional beverage kiosks has been diminishing and replaced by refrigerators supplied by manufacturers or purchased independently by the store operator. For this same reason, one-way packaging or non-returnable packaging continues to be the more preferred packaging type for soft drinks, with price difference not such a major consideration for consumers.

Hot drinks continued to benefit from the growing disposable income and changing lifestyles of in particular urban consumers in Indonesia. Convenience, stamina boosts and maintaining health through nutritional intake increasingly became the primary drivers for hot drinks in the review period. Hot drinks packaging thus continued to flourish, especially as hot drinks require air-tight packaging to maintain freshness, aroma and taste. Moreover, with the growing sachet packs for single serving, unit volume is rising despite being partially offset by the growth in large pack sizes for better value. Overall hot drinks packaging expanded by 6% volume units in 2012 to reach 5.4 billion units.

The worsening financial situation of households affected producers in terms of lower sales. As a consequence, there was less activity in terms of the introduction of packaging novelties. Significant projects aimed at changing packaging were suspended and new concepts were not developed. Companies tended to implement new products without spending on investment in new packaging; thus bath and shower, men's toiletries or hair care were basically characterised by the offering of standard rigid plastic bottles provided with simple closures. This type of packaging and closure are less costly, which translates into money saving in production processes. Market potential for cheap and simply shaped closures is dynamically driving rising demand for private label products. As packaging has an essential share in the final price, discounters, supermarkets and hypermarkets are focused on the lowest costs. In 2012, the cheapest closures - plastic screw closures and plastic dispensing closures - showed the fastest growth in actual terms.

Various Chinese elements, Chinese ink-wash painting on the packaging for example, are incorporated into the packaging of beauty and personal care products to woo local consumers, while the design of closures can also cater to consumers' changing needs. To address the needs of time-pressed consumers, self-foaming closures are applied for face cleansers and liquid hand soap, which prolongs the use of such products and is therefore well received among consumers.

Croxsons, a renowned bottle manufacturer in the UK proudly announce their involvement with the ISC 2014. The company supported the awards, with Tim Croxson judging the large numbers of entries for their design and packaging, amongst some top spirit producers and designers of the world. Choosing who won each of the ISC awards meant examining the work quality and commitment to provide only genuine products from nominees, and winning an award is therefore a big deal.

Possessing expert art handlers in NYC, Cirkers now offers unmatched packing and crafting services at the most competitive prices. The company’s internal staff possesses the experience of more than a century in the particulars of packing and crafting of fine art, antiques and decorative art. Indeed, it is true that the crafting designs are seamlessly designed for augmenting the beneficial factors of the latest technologies and materials. No one has to worry about the quality, as they will undoubtedly offer customers the highest-quality materials. In addition to this, they are more suitable for the objects that are being packed and used for the process. The complete range of packing services also includes the finest wrapping and packing materials for one-way shipping, tough museum quality, one-way and round-trip crates, durable travel frames that exceed industry standards, and multiple use traveling exhibition crates.

Volume growth of tobacco packaging in China in 2012 was slightly slower than in 2011, mainly due to the stricter government control over smoking in public places in China. With China's entry into the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) in 2005, a ban on smoking in public places, such as hospitals, schools and public transportation, has been in place in China since January 2011.

The key event of 2013 was the full return of PepsiCo to the country with the launch of a KES2.6 billion soft drinks manufacturing plant. The company now has a plant in Kenya with the capacity to manufacture around 600 bottles per minute, thus showing its intention to seize the growing opportunities available in the Kenyan market. PepsiCo's manufacturing presence in the country is expected to help it cut its operational costs, thus freeing up cash for a price war with its rival Coca-Cola.

Overall, home care products is a very mature and saturated market, offering few growth opportunities. Apart from that, many other factors work against value and volume sales, for example, demographic ones, lifestyle-related ones, as well as those concerning the product properties. Fewer children on the one hand and more (very) old people on the other hand mean less demand for specific products. Also, with ever-busier lifestyles many people have considerably less time and willingness to do...

Tobacco volume sales have been significantly affected by the smoking ban, stringent legislation and higher taxes. The smoking ban in foodservice in particular impacted on the smoking patterns of the German population. Whilst some outlets banned smoking altogether, many turned to shorter smoking times. Anti-smoking campaigns as well as the smoking ban also created a social stigma around smoking with more Germans coming to consider it as less acceptable to smoke in public places. The increased levels of health consciousness in the population also contributed to the decline. All of these factors led to a decline in tobacco packaging.

Transparency of the product is a selling point asset for brand owners within soft drinks in France. This trend therefore enabled PET bottles to gain ground within 100% juices in 2012, thanks to the success of Tropicana in PET bottles in the size of 850ml in November 2010. According to trade press, PepsiCo France SNC was able to recruit 170,000 new purchaser households in 2011. Such a performance led the company to upsize PET bottles for the Tropicana Pure Premium range by launching in December 2011 the size of 1,300ml within 100% juices in retail, hence the positive growth in 2012.

In 2012, HDPE bottles were the most popular packaging in home care and constituted 21% of entire packaging utilised in the market. However, there was a noticeable tendency of declining share of HDPE bottles to the benefit of competing packaging types, mainly PET bottles. This phenomenon was particularly visible in multi-purpose cleaners, hand dishwashing, liquid fabric softeners or kitchen cleaners. PET bottles are less cost intensive for the manufacturers and attractive in terms of visual properties. Moreover, their technical parameters (eg resistance and durability) are not far behind HDPE bottles.

Euromonitor International's data show that single- and 2-person households maintained volume growth of 2.3-2.5% in recent years, reflected in late marriage among singles and the rising number of DINK families in China. The emotional needs among these people give rise to more cases of pet adoption, in addition to the accelerating urbanisation and the climbing consumption capability in China.

With consumption growth, increasing consumer purchasing power, women's greater purchasing power and the rising life expectancies, this will lead to a rise in beauty and personal care sales volume, which is benefiting overall beauty and personal care packaging sales. In 2012, the overall packaging grew by 3% over 2011 and is expected to have a CAGR of 3% over the forecast period to reach a volume of 15.2 billion units in 2016.

Laundry care received one of its most dramatic shake-ups in nearly a decade with the introduction of liquid laundry detergent tablets. The product, while common in many other countries, had not previously been offered by many of the major laundry detergent manufacturers. Now, liquid laundry tablets have been launched by nearly every single major liquid laundry manufacturer, and have quickly been introduced to nearly every major distributor in the US. These products, while more expensive than other laundry detergents, offer premeasured detergents in a dissolvable pouch. Almost every major brand of liquid laundry tablets comes in stand-up pouches for the majority of the product line-up. The major deviation of this comes from Tide Pods, which has many of its larger sizes in large tubs that are shaped to look like the product, and have an easy-to-open lid. This caused some issues in the initial launch of the product, as children mistook the product for candy in a jar and tried to eat it. This forced Procter & Gamble to put extra labelling on the packaging to advise parents to keep the product out of the reach of children.

In 2012, rigid plastic was the dominant packaging format overall in beauty and personal care with a 53% unit volume share, paper-based containers with 20% and flexible packaging with 19% and This market is mature and saturated, with growth driven by trends such as the economy, the ageing Canadian population, increasing environmental awareness and changes in the retail environment (for example, the increasing emphasis on beauty and personal care products in drugstores, the shift in some Wal-Mart locations to hypermarkets and not least the increasing competition from modern Asian grocery stores that are creating in-store beauty boutiques to capture growing demand from the rising ethnic population).

In 2012, dog and cat food packaging unit volumes saw an upward tendency in line with rising care among Polish consumers about their pets combined with a shortage of time for preparation of pets' meals from scratch. Dog and cat food has developed, stimulating a respective increase in packaging utilisation. Dog and cat food packaging grew by 10% in retail unit volume terms in 2012, equivalent to almost 50 million additional packages.

Despite continuous efforts to heighten law enforcement by both government (in particular the Ministry of Health) and antismoking NGOs to reduce the number of smokers and the negative effects of smoking on the public health, unit volume of tobacco products continued to grow positively in 2012. Cigarettes continue to be the primary type of tobacco product in Indonesia, with other types of tobacco products not enjoying the same appeal and less regulated by the government. With the larger pack sizes posting stronger growth, total tobacco packaging's growth rate in 2012 was slightly lower than the growth rate in tobacco in volume size (by sticks as per Euromonitor International's research). Total tobacco packaging expanded by 6% in 2012 in unit terms to reach 41.5 billion units.

Tax increases in 2011 and ongoing government TV campaigns had a negative impact on the volume sales of overall tobacco packaging. The lower consumption of cigarettes led brand owners to move towards premiumisation and create new pack shapes to create more appealing packaging, such as Camel Curve which was launched in January 2012 by JT International. Despite their efforts, this marketing strategy undertaken by industry players did not help to improve the performance of folding cartons in 2012, as cigarettes recorded a decline during the year.

The tobacco industry is taking its packaging increasingly seriously, using it as a means to convey an image to consumers, given the restrictions on advertising and promotions. The largest trend in tobacco packaging in the latter part of the review period was automation, where pressing on an area of the pack opens the top. Variants include slide packs, such as Benson & Hedges, Marlboro lighter/Zipp and Davidoff iD Touch Orange, which was launched in 2012. A recent addition is the Glide Tec opening, which flips open when the front section is slid up, as used by Imperial's Lambert & Butler brand, with the packaging introduced in the UK at the end of 2011.

The tobacco industry witnessed consumers cutting down on tobacco consumption on account of health and wellness concerns. While new consumers were entering the fold, existing consumers continued to take steps towards reduction of tobacco consumption. In addition, several non-governmental organisations (NGOs) undertook activities to make consumers aware of the ill effects of tobacco consumption. These factors, put together, took their toll on the tobacco industry, thereby impacting volume growth of tobacco packaging as well, which had to contend with growth of a mere 2% in 2012.

Alternative packaging continues to make gains in wine, as products such as single-serve plastic cups of wine as well as foil pouches of wine are introduced by independent companies with increasing frequency. These products have largely become attractive to consumers as they allow them to easily decide the amount they wish to drink at any given time. In addition, the product's packaging is very resilient to breakage, which is normally of concern with glass products. Finally, as consumers have become increasingly cost conscious, many of them have shed some of the traditional concerns that wine that comes in non-glass packaging is inferior in quality to its glass counterparts.

Wholesale Direct supplies owns a place of prominence for being one of the leading suppliers of food service and packaging products and they are now offering a wide array of high quality plastic takeaway containers. These products are ideal and safe options for food storage and serving takeaway meals and also enhance the overall appearance of the food. At Wholesale Direct Supplies, customers will get food-grade & microwave-safe containers in round & rectangular shapes in varied sizes.