Designalytics, in partnership with Dieline, announced the winners of the second-annual Designalytics Effectiveness Awards, recognizing the impact of strong packaging design and its impact on driving double-digit sales growth for some of today’s fast-moving consumer brands.

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The FDA has reorganized the agency’s information technology (IT), data management and cybersecurity functions into the new Office of Digital Transformation (ODT), which has been realigned to report directly to the FDA commissioner. 

Molson Coors Beverage Co has launched a beer-style cannabis beverage range in Canada that contains a THC and CBD blend. The launch is through Truss BeverageCo, the joint-venture Molson Coors set up with Canadian cannabis company Hexo Corp in 2018. 

EMSUR, Grupo Lantero's Packaging Division, has launched EM-Full RFlex, a new range of PE and PP-based flexible packaging.

In the 1960s no matter the retail store, the most-often used methods of bringing goods home were paper/Kraft bags, cardboard boxes or hand-carry—no plastic bags until the 1980s in most developed countries.

Since 2020, inkjet and electrophotography printing has secured new markets in labels and packaging. A new Smithers report, The Future of Digital Print for Packaging to 2026, reveals total value will reach $21.1 billion in 2021. 

As a precautionary measure, Flowers Foods, Inc. has voluntarily recalled Tastykake multi-pack cupcakes due to the potential presence of tiny fragments of metal mesh wire.