• Rising demand for shelf stable yogurt benefits shaped liquid cartons.
  • Plastic pouches gain popularity among yogurt products.
  • Dairy manufacturers seek new packaging innovations for differentiation.
  • Growth for sauces, dressing, and condiments slows due to demand for healthier, fresher food.
  • PET bottles continues to witness robust growth in soy sauces in 2016, outpacing glass bottles.
  • Small/medium sauces, dressings and condiments packaging sizes gain share due to growth in single-person households decreasing household sizes.
  • Flexible plastic packaging dominates in different categories of processed meat and seafood.
  • Thin wall plastic containers is a notable innovation in chilled processed seafood.
  • Packaging volume experiences negative growth due to maturity in confectionery and growing consumer demand for healthy diets in China.
  • Premiumization leads to greater use of plastic pouches and experimental adoption of glass bottles in confectionary packaging.
  • Gift packaging in confectionery witnesses significant innovation through crossover with fashion brands in response to mization and to upgrade brand identity.
  • Small packs gain share of confectionary packaging because of increased demand for convenient, portable food and growing awareness of portion control.
  • Glass jars continue to dominate shelf stable fruit while metal food cans remains the most popular packaging type in shelf stable vegetables
  • Thin wall plastic containers gain share in shelf stable fruit
  • Packaging innovation was limited due to lack of awareness among local manufacturers
  • The rising quantity of imported baby food leads to more diverse pack types
  • In baby food packaging consumers do not quickly become familiar with innovative packaging, thus innovation was minimal in 2016.

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