Retail giant shares packaging insights for AIP
Retail giant shares packaging insights for AIP
One of Australia’s largest retailers, Woolworths, will share its packaging trends at the next Australian Institute of Packaging (AIP) technical dinner, which will take place on 27 February in Oatlands, Sydney.
Kane Hardingham (pictured), Woolworths Limited environmental manager, will present a paper on the company’s packaging trends, looking at balancing efficiency, costs and sustainability for retailers and suppliers.
Hardingham, who has worked in the field of environmental management and sustainability for sixteen years, has been the environmental manager at Woolworths for five years. He works with Sustainable Packaging Specialists to implement processes to review packaging on own-brand products and to introduce packaging improvements.
Also presenting at the dinner, which will be held at the Oatlands Golf Course Club House, will be Daniel Bone (pictured below), global director of consumer insights at information and analysis company, Datamonitor.
Bone will speak about ten new pack innovations from Datamonitor’s packaging innovation platform, PackTrack. Using the PackTrack platform, Bone will showcase packaging innovations from around the world using HD images and zoom-in capabilities, and share new ideas across a wide range of formats and product categories.
Bone, who has worked with Datamonitor for over ten years in London, Copenhagen and Sydney, will explore and challenge the economic difficulties brands face with the real opportunities these packaging innovations offer.
The dinner will be held on the evening of 27 February 2012, Oatlands Golf Course Club House, Bettington Road, Oatlands.