• Key dairy brands aim to reduce the price gap between brick cartons and flexible plastic in 2016  
  • Brick liquid cartons are revamped due to increasing interest in milk alternatives.
  • Functional yogurt uses HDPE, regular yogurt thin wall plastic containers, which, along with size, differentiates the two. HDPE bottles are considered a “finer” pack, helping justify a higher price.
  • Competitively priced brick liquid cartons offered at the same price as flexible plastic are expected to reduce the long-term trend favoring flexible plastic.  
  • Small-sized formats led to new dairy products using multipacks and individual sizes
  • Amidst economic deceleration, pasta is an economic, tasty and versatile meal, favoring pasta sauces, tomato pastes, and purées packaging in 2016  
  • Pouches are the most popular pack type in sauces, dressing and condiments.
  • The threat of power rationing and health and wellness megatrends helped metal food cans in 2016, the key pack type used in shelf stable meat and seafood.
  • Health concerns favor smaller pack sizes in confectionery in 2016 with large sizes (over 50g) increasingly observed only in premium chocolate  
  • Paper-based containers outperform the overall category as confectionery is regarded as an important gift alternative.
  • Flexible plastic significantly displaced rigid containers in sauces, dressings and condiments.
  • Glass gives way to stand-up pouches in key categories,  but is the preference in pasta sauces.
  • Plastic dispensing closures and plastic screw closures are the most popular closures in PET bottles and stand-up pouches. Products in flexible plastic prove useful for refills or other uses.
  • Electric infrastructure instability led shelf stable meat and seafood purchases and a decline in processed fruit and vegetables, where affordable fresh fruit and vegetables was preferred by consumers to chilled and frozen fruit and vegetables.
  • Easy-open closures has overtaken standard can ends in shelf stable meat and seafood.
  • Safety and well-established manufacturing capabilities helped to preserve the place of flexible packaging and metal cans in larger categories, such as chilled processed red meat and shelf stable seafood.
  • Increasing inflation led to higher unit prices of fresh and packaged fruit and vegetables. A transport strike led to a scarcity of fresh food and vegetables for more than one month and available products were expensive. As such, consumer demand for packaged fruit and vegetables increased for a short period. The net effect on packaging was an decline in 2016.
  • Self-standing pouches in prepared baby food boom as they portability and independence.
  • Enfamil/Enfagrow offers smaller sizes in folding carton, useful for single or smaller meals by reducing the risk of contamination and increasing portability.
  • Other baby food like yogurts for babies helped thin wall plastic containers and peel-off foils.  

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