Grains of Hope
India’s food market represents about 25% of the country’s GDP. The numbers are not easy to validate with significant variance amongst both government and...
The Monsoon Roundtable on Future-Proofing Legacy Packaging Lines
At the Pack.Nxt Conference in Mumbai on 18 January, we came to the realization that while sustainability and track and trace are topics garnering...
Rice, WTO and the Iran-Israel conflict
Rice, India's staple food, is always in the news – albeit for different reasons. Last June, India's ban on non-basmati white rice triggered panic...
India’s grain and pulses – balancing yield and nutrition
As climate change wreaks havoc, and an uneven and inconsistent rainfall pattern puts farmers in distress, concerns over crop production and food security take...
PACK.Nxt in Mumbai on 18 January 2024 at the Lalit Hotel
In our in-person PDIT Conferences in Mumbai in 2019 at the Goregaon Expo Center, and then again in Delhi in at the end of...
PACK.Nxt in Mumbai on 18 January 2024 at the Lalit Hotel
What did we learn in Amsterdam about smart packaging and sustainability? We learned that technology is the connection between brand protection, authentication, supply chain...
#BeatPlasticPollution – All words and little action
This World Environment Day on 5 June, the theme was #BeatPlasticPollution. Debates were held across forums, brands flaunted their 'sustainable alternatives', the media went...
The need to invest in evidence-based research and numbers
As the printing industry is well aware, our sister organization IppStar (IPP Services, Training, and Research Pvt Ltd), www.ippstar.org, has been researching the Indian...
The growth of leading food brands in India
Our associate research company Ipp Services, Training and Research PL (www.ippstar.org) has done a quick snapshot study of fifteen known food brands from FY...
Progress and disappointment on climate change at COP27
At the conclusion of COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on 19 November 2022 the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said, “From the beginning, this conference...
