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- Marketers greenlight black packaging
Black packaging is gaining prominence as marketers choose it for launches including a Haagen-Dazs gelato line and Beck's Sapphire beer, by Anheuser-Busch InBev. "The use of black has really exploded," said Mike Cecil, senior brand manager of Henkel's Renuzit, which introduced black-packaged air freshener. The Wall Street Journal
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- Ineke uses crowdsourcing site to design packaging
Using crowdsourcing website CrowdSpring, Ineke Fragrances was able to turn out packaging for its fragrance Hothouse Flower in less than four weeks. The fragrance's cylindrical bottle that features an illustration of a flower created using a bottom spray and black silk-screening process was one of more than 30 design ideas the company received from designers on the website. Beauty Packaging
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- The Vini offers fine wine in bottle the size of a glass
The Vini has introduced Exceptional Wine by the Glass, a 10-inch-tall, two-inch-wide glass tube that holds 187 milliliters of wine, which is about one-quarter the size of a normal wine bottle. The Vini wine is available in Zinfandel-like California Napa and Chardonnay-like California Sonoma. The brand plans to make the unique packaging format available to other wineries this year. Packaging Digest
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- Do you have facts on sustainability or just opinions?
Getting sustainability right is difficult because "everybody's got opinions, but most of us don't have really great facts," says Kim Jeffrey, former CEO of Nestlé Waters North America. That makes it hard to plan effective strategies or to promote them. "Things we do that we think are intuitively right, sometimes have the reverse impact from an environmental standpoint," Jeffrey says. GreenBiz.com
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- BPA exposure may put children at greater risk for asthma
Exposure to bisphenol A in early childhood was associated with a greater likelihood of childhood wheezing and asthma, according to a study in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. However, researchers found no evidence that BPA exposure during the third trimester of pregnancy was linked to increased asthma risk. HealthDay News
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