Miscellaneous

Now he's created the identity and packaging for Origo Foods, a new business venture from a young husband and wife team that sells freeze-dried fruits to parents and children, made with 100% real ingredients and zero additives.

Origo uses super-low temperatures, up to -50°C to remove water, but lets the fruits retain most of their nutrition, shape, and natural colour. Once it has been dried, the fruit tastes crunchy and can be stored at room temperature. As such, Andrew chose an "approachable" direction that would appeal to the target audience.

Barilla, a world leader in the markets of pasta, is expanding its partnership with Be My Eyes, a platform that provides live audio and visual support for blind and visually impaired consumers, by incorporating QR codes on the packaging of ten of Barilla's most popular classic pasta offerings.

Barilla is passionate about creating diverse and accessible products for consumers. In 2021, Barilla became the first food company to partner with Be My Eyes, enabling shoppers to connect with Barilla experts directly through smartphone cameras.

The COMPACT+ is the latest generation COMPACT. The machines are inherently compact and share the latest advanced sorting technology with the Mistral + CONNECT, giving the same high levels of performance.

As of today, the old 500g packs of the powdered coffee brand have been traded out for new 450g ones, in what is yet another example of the ‘shrinkflation’ phenomenon.

The packs have also increased in price, as Tesco is now selling the new packs at £3, up from £2.70 for the old size, according to data from retail research analysts Assosia.

Meanwhile in Asda, 450g packs were being sold at £2.55 – the same price as they had been in their previous version.

Peli BioThermal’s newest shipping solution combines customer collaboration and data-driven optimisation to propose a portfolio of shipper options that meet unique business and programme requirements. Each shipper is supplied with 2-, 4- or 6-TIC configurations to dial thermal duration up or down and switch between open and tight temperature control to meet typical and complex shipping lane profiles.

From the next month, all sorts of chemical fertilizers like potash, Urea, NPK, DAP, etc. will be available in a single type of packaging. Urea will be sold in yellow bags, DAP in light green, NPK in dark green and MOP in light pink bags.

The central government has recently issued a circular regarding the ‘One Nation, One Fertilizer’ scheme, according to which, 75% of the bag will have to have the Pradhan Mantri Bharatiya Jan Urvarak Yojana (PMBJP) logo and design printed on it. The company will be able to get their name and logo printed in the remaining 25% portion only.

The European Union (EU) has lifted its ban on exports of waste paper to India from April 1, providing relief to the paper industry affected by the raw material shortage.

Waste cuttings or papers are one of the important raw materials for the paper industry, particularly for manufacturing kraft paper which in turn is used for making brown or corrugated boxes used for packing all items from FMCG to electronics.

The EU had banned the exports of these cuttings in November last year. When India raised the issue, the officials there attributed it to a clerical error.