A report presents statistics and developments in e-commerce since 2014 and also forecasts the future of e-commerce up to 2023. Accumulated data for the most recent period covered forecasts an increase in global e-commerce sales of 276.9%. There will be no avoiding optimizing packaging design and materials, because the needs

Growth everywhere. Pleasing. But this time differently. Because whoever thinks linearly here now has done the math without the host. The host is the consumer here. And in the future this will be even more complex than ever before. This will confront the packaging sector of the printing industry with tricky

By AWA Alexander Watson Associates Bottles, cans, and now flexible packaging…   Beverage labels in general are a major component of the end uses for labels, and they employ all the major formats of printing and product decoration – glue applied labels (cold (wet) glue applied and wraparound); pressure-sensitive labels; heat

Consumers will continue to change their wine consumption due to climate change – contrary to the climatic changes in the wine Retailers are already now noticing climate-change induced changes in consumer behaviour. CLIMATE CHANGE AFFECTS CONSUMER CHOICE In hot summers, for example, wine consumption drops, and demand for heavy red

The global wine market is currently estimated at just over 285 billion euros and is expected to expand at an annual growth rate of 3.4 percent to over 356 billion euros by 2022. A huge market, largely dominated by the wine nations of Europe and North America.  The USA, Italy,