Branding agency Derek and Eric has partnered with illustrator Joe Whale (also known as Doodle Boy) to re-design Little Dish’s latest pack in an interactive format, encouraging children to colour in and draw on the packaging.

Little Dish produces fresh and frozen meals for children with its Little Dish, BIG Dish and Superstars ranges, with its fresh meals served in wood fibre trays. For the new pack, the sleeve features black and white illustrations and an empty panel for children to fill with their favourite doodle.

Papyrus Australia on track to transition to commercialisation.

Australian Stock Exchange listed company Papyrus Australia Limited has developed a proprietary technology that converts banana plantation waste into a refined pulp intended to be used to produce a broad range of sustainable paper, board, and moulded packaging application products.

The brand is worth over £44m and found in more than 2.2 million UK households.

Kids’ fruit snacking brand, Bear, has undergone a refresh.

The revamped packaging delivers a more distinctive, harmonised look across the fixture, with a modernised logo and stronger branding to boost in-store visibility and make the range quicker to spot and shop. Packaging updates include new real fruit imagery as well as clear on-pack health messaging.

The US-Iran war has exposed supply chain fragility as India’s Diet Coke shortage highlights risks of single packaging reliance and aluminium can shortages

Of all the impacts on supply chains during the conflict in the Middle East, India’s abrupt shortage of Diet Coke might be one of the most surprising. But should it be?

Disruption from the Iran war has hit global energy supplies hardest. But while oil and gas flows have dominated headlines, the latest shock has exposed a less obvious vulnerability: the movement of industrial materials such as aluminium.