Success depends on moving in the right direction. Throughout the year, Packaging Digest watches for emerging trends as well as for shifts in existing fads to help you navigate the ever-changing tides of the packaging industry.
We present to you posts about packaging trends that generated the most page views in 2020:
13. Survey Reveals Consumers’ Attitudes About Food Packaging
Some 1,100 consumers were asked about their packaged food buying habits related to labels, COVID-19, sustainability, and other key issues.
12. New Digital Printing Technologies Boost Packaging Benefits
Next-gen digital presses and label printers broaden the scope of packaging applications, boost productivity, and offer sustainability advantages. The new equipment also provides better print quality, color control, and registration consistency — and all at a more affordable cost.
11. Flexible Packaging Delivers in the Ecommerce Era
There are several vital factors that brand owners should consider when packaging products for ecommerce instead of retail.
10. 7 Consumer Trends Driving Packaging Decisions
To have a successful product, brands must keep up with or stay ahead of the latest consumer trends. From a growth in ecommerce to an increased concern with sustainability, here are patterns in consumer behavior that influence today’s top packaging designs and developments.
9. Who’s Hiring Packaging Designers Today?
Putting people back to work will help the US economy rebound after the devastation caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Here are 26 packaging design-related jobs that are possibly perfect for you.
8. 5 Pharma Trends and Their Impact on Packaging
The pharmaceutical industry is changing at an unprecedented pace. New biological treatments for cancer, and a dramatic rise of widespread diseases such as diabetes, call for new processing and packaging solutions to fulfill the different needs all over the world. Keep your eye on these five main packaging trends for 2020 for the global pharmaceutical market.
7. What Companies are Hiring Packaging Engineers Today?
Despite the 11% US unemployment rate today — and with unemployment claims related to the coronavirus outbreak exceeding 20 million in May 2020 — companies are still hiring for a variety of packaging-related jobs.
6. Top 5 Trends Shaping the Antimicrobial Packaging Market
Companies are developing exciting new active packaging materials to enhance safety in food, healthcare and personal-care markets.
5. How Packaging Trends Will Shape 2020
Sustainability, branding and “smart” packaging technologies continue to resonate with global packaging professionals, based on the leading stories from early 2020 on PackagingDigest.com.
4. 12 Snack Packages Echo Consumer Trends
Looking for a little healthy indulgence when hunger strikes? You’re not the only one. Americans snack before, after, and during mealtimes. After all, today’s packages make it easy to do so. Here are a dozen examples of brands using packs and graphics to tempt and gratify.
3. 5 Branding and Packaging Trends for 2020
Successful brands in 2020 will be those that find creative ways to express their over-arching brand attributes — delivering clear, unified brand assets telling stories that have the power to change consumer behavior and, in some cases, start a revolution on store shelves.
2. 5 Sustainable Packaging Trends to Look Out for in 2020
For sustainable packaging, 2020 was set to be a year of action and reaction, building on the fast-growing trends from the last two years. Here were a handful of critical sustainable packaging trends expected in 2020.
1. 6 Food and Beverage Packaging Trends That Will Dominate 2020
Cut-throat competition has prompted food and beverage brands to experiment with many innovative approaches to packaging design, both aesthetically and functionally.