Packaging in a low carbon economy conference
Edge’s inaugural packaging conference was judged a major success by the 51 delegates who attended the event at the National Motorcycle Museum, Birmingham on 30 September.

Consultancy projects
This year has been dominated by projects focused on measuring carbon footprint of products, product ranges and packaging solutions in client businesses. Understanding the carbon footprint of your business, sector, products, packaging or processes allows informed and responsible decisions to be made about future business sustainability.

China 2012 market report
In June Edge published the most authoritative and comprehensive report on the state of the Chinese packaging supply chain to date.

Looking forward to 2009
Of course, any review of 2008 cannot avoid mentioning the unprecedented changes experienced in the economy. It is clear that the New Year is going to be even tougher than the past three months. So what will be the priorities for the packaging supply chain in 2009? Clearly, generating and preserving cash is going to be of paramount importance. During such times, a lot of planned expenditure and initiatives will be reined in. For a sector where innovation and customer focus has become paramount, the challenge for packaging companies and packaging users will be how they maintain this focus against a backdrop of tightening budgets and uncertainty. The key will be to ensure that innovation and technology projects give greatest value for money and have highest probability for success. Edge therefore predicts that in 2009 we will see greater focus on the use of consumer insight tools, technology scouting and other techniques that streamline and optimize the packaging innovation process.

 

For further details contact Greg Wood on +44(0)7771 558785 or Michael Sturges on +44(0)7787 531141 or
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