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...
Food & beverage trends for 2025
Focus on the quality of ingredients, gut health and nutrition, sustainability & climate change, the naturalness of plant-based products, technology in agriculture, geopolitics, and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
#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 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...
How can sustainable laminates meet the challenges of diverse price points?
The packaging and label industry in India continues to grow as packed and labeled products in numerous types of containers, formats, and sizes multiply....
