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05Mar 2024
Sandwich packaging

Imagine walking into your favourite cafe, where the aroma of fresh coffee blends with the sight of the most inviting sandwiches you’ve ever seen. Their secret? Not just what’s inside, but how it’s wrapped. At Cafe Brands, we’re turning sandwich packaging into an art form that’s as good for the planet as it is for […]

29Feb 2024

As we move into 2024, the catering industry is on the brink of a green revolution. It’s a year that heralds a shift from the old ways of single-use plastics to a brighter era of sustainable service. This transformation is not just a trend, it’s a response to a global call for action, where eco-friendly […]

22Sep 2023

The urgency of moving to a more sustainable economy has never been more apparent. Society has to move quickly if a climate disaster is to be averted. One small but significant step that businesses can take immediately is to switch to eco-friendly packaging. In this guide, we offer plenty of hints and advice on businesses […]

16Aug 2023

With climate change consistently in the headlines, global awareness of our planet’s health is at its peak. Consumers, as key change agents, are pushing for a sustainable future. The focus? Moving away from excessive single-use plastics to demand eco-friendly packaging. This shift underscores the need for businesses to recognize and adapt to the sustainable packaging […]

24Jul 2023

For decades, the issue of food packaging has been addressed by chucking more plastic at the problem. This is an unsustainable approach, and savvy consumers are aware of this and are turning away from single-use plastics in their droves. For food vendors, this presents a unique challenge – how to deliver their street food in […]

31Mar 2022

We are all acutely aware that the world is teetering on the edge of an environmental disaster. None too soon, this awareness has seen consumers increasingly make purchasing decisions based on the “environmental ethos” of a business. Packaging is one of the most visible aspects of business operations. It is also one of the worst […]

16Aug 2021

Trends and customer requests influence the food, beverage, and restaurant business. Concerns regarding sustainability and the environmental effect of meal delivery are growing in tandem with the number of individuals buying food online. Sustainable food packaging is now more important to two out of three customers than it was five years ago. Sixty-six per cent […]

22Apr 2021

Oceans currently cover about 70 per-cent of the Earth’s surface, so it comes as a surprise to no one that oceans have been some of the most impacted by the modern world’s environmental changes. A 2014 study by the National Academy of Sciences’ Proceedings claimed that 88% of our oceans are now polluted. Even though […]

19Mar 2021

The appearance of the COVID-19 pandemic has meant many households adopting several new procedures to contain and prevent the virus. And most of these procedures involve disposable this and that, which has put to the second plan an also very much present plague: climate change. In all fairness, for effects of personal hygiene and overall […]

23May 2019

If you have noticed a change in food trends over the past couple of years, this is partly due to millennials. Composed of people born in the early 1980s ‘til about 2004, the millennial generation is considered the largest age group since the Baby Boomers. The food choices or preferences of millennials are helping in […]

27Jun 2019

Your food product may be one of the tastiest and nutritive around, but if it does not attract shoppers at you store of food stall, all your marketing efforts go in vain. This is where smart packaging comes in. Food Packaging Design and Marketing goes hand in hand. Read on to find out more about […]

26Jul 2019

Street Food plays a significant role in today’s modern busy lifestyle. The growing demand for easy, fast, on-the-move food and drink and the massive increase of the available choices means that the market in terms of street food packaging is higher than ever before. Due to the growing disturbing news regarding ocean plastic pollution, consumers […]

17Aug 2019

Transparency in food packaging design can be taken literally or figuratively, and today more than ever, consumers are highly interested in both. In the literal sense, most consumers like transparent windows that let them see the item of food they are buying without having to open the product’s package. Figuratively, however, transparency is a little […]

12Sep 2019

Society has changed extensively the last couple of years, today more-so than ever people are practicing Eco-Friendly lifestyles. Living a greener way of life has become somewhat a trend and for many its second nature these days to simply go green. Most people are aware of the damage already caused to our environment, and although […]

21Oct 2019

It’s no secret that over the last decade or so coffee culture has become of bit of a trend, prior to that it was generally tea that topped the list for hot brew preference, but now that we’ve seen the introduction of many multi-national coffee chains it seems to have given rise to new found […]