New Developments in Retail-Ready Packaging

Retail-ready packaging offers multiple benefits in terms of operational efficiencies and brand enhancement. A high-growth area with relatively few key players, opportunities exist in the established European market where technological advances are crucial to the uptake or RRP and in less developed markets like Asia and North America, where RRP is under-utilized for a variety of factors.Understand the benefits and challenges of retail-ready packaging to manufacturers, retailers, and consumers.Consider the optimum design features of successful retail-ready packaging.Gain an insight into the size of the retail-ready packaging market – and how it is forecast to grow.Explore new technologies that are having an impact on innovation in retail-ready packaging.Identify key players in the retail-ready packaging space.Market opportunities exist in the Asia-Pacific region where the packaging market is growing in response to changing consumption patterns in the grocery sector, and in North America where RRP is under-utilized despite the size of its grocery market.The use of new technologies in corrugated board such as die cut boxes, in microfluting, and in higher quality finishing and printing techniques is creating exciting opportunities – and demand - for more robust, lightweight, and eye-catching RRP designs.The RRP market is dominated by a small number of large companies with interests in corrugated packaging including Smurfit Kappa, Amcor, DS Smith and Mondi, as well as a handful of key players with a smaller but highly specialized stake in the RRP market such as SCA Packaging, i2i Europe, and Industrial Packaging GroupHow can RRP benefit my business and my customers?What are the costs involved in implementing RRP?What are the key features of successful retail-ready packaging?What new technologies are impacting the development of RRP?Where are the big market opportunities in the retail-ready packaging space?

Table of contents

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
•Introduction
•Main trends in RRP
•New technologies in retail-ready packaging
•Industry and the retail-ready packaging sector
•Conclusions and trend projections
Introduction
•Summary
•Introduction
•Different forms of retail-ready packaging
Replenishment-ready packaging
Shelf-ready packaging (SRP)
Display-ready packaging
Infrastructure-ready packaging (IRP)
•Features of RRP
•Advantages of RRP
Cost benefits of RRP
Impact of RRP on store labor costs
Space utilization
Point-of-sale (POS) benefits
•Cost implications of RRP
•Sustainability
European environmental legislation
UK sustainability initiatives: WRAP and the Courtauld Commitment
Environmental legislation in Asia Pacific
•Other legislation
Main trends in retail-ready packaging
•Summary
•The consumer packaging market
The wider picture
•Retail-ready packaging
Regional breakdown
•Consumer behavior
•Retail trends
New technologies in retail-ready packaging
•Summary
•Introduction
•Applications
•What are the leading technologies and strategies defining the market?
•Corrugated board / microflute
Microflute printing
Innovation in microfluting
•Plastics / bioplastics
•Display-ready packaging
Shelf-ready packaging
•Returnable / re-usable packaging
Package design
Increased printing quality
Optimal product counts
Lightweighting
•Issues with RRP
Industry players in the RRP sector
•Summary
•Introduction
•Major RRP players
Smurfit Kappa
Amcor
DS Smith
Mondi
•Smaller RRP players
SCA Packaging
i2i Europe
Industrial Packaging Group
Bosch Packaging Systems
•Retailer case studies
Tesco
Waitrose
Walmart
Kroger
Conclusions and future trends
•Summary
•RRP market forecasts
Sustainability
•Cost benefits
Case study - UK supermarket sector
Co-operation is a must
•Technologies
Appendix
•Glossary / Abbreviations
•Bibliography/References
TABLES
•Table: Consumer packaging market, regional breakdown (%), 2010
•Table: Consumer packaging market by material (% of value) 2010
•Table: Standards for US corrugated flutes
FIGURES
•Figure: Example of shelf-ready packaging
•Figure: Display-ready packaging
•Figure: Benefits and challenges associated with RRP
•Figure: Houdek sausages DRP
•Figure: Indirect labor costs generated per product vs. RRP efficiencies
•Figure: US retailers – number of stores, sq. ft./store, SKUS/store and sq. ft./SKU
•Figure: Potential cost implications of RRP
•Figure: Co-op reduced packaging for its own label tomato puree through RRP
•Figure: K-Roll retractable wheel pallets
•Figure: Value of the consumer packaging market ($bn), 2006-2016
•Figure: RRP market ($bn), 2010-2016
•Figure: Top ten global grocery markets ($, millions) 2006-2014
•Figure: Advantages of micro-flute
•Figure: Constellation wine pack using R Flute RRP technology
•Figure: Shelf-ready packaging for Sainsbury’s sliced cheeses
•Figure: P&G shelf-ready packaging for Alldays
•Figure: Crystal Clear Trays
•Figure: STI variable tray concept
•Figure: How to avoid usage issues with RRP
•Figure: Major RRP players
•Figure: Cross-section of Smurfit Kappa solid board
•Figure: Cross-section of Smartboard
•Figure: Example of DS Smith RRP products
•Figure: Otor’s 8 corner box
•Figure: Mondi RRP examples
•Figure: Smaller RRP players
•Figure: PDQ trays
•Figure: Oral B RRP for Walmart in the US
•Figure: Kroger cost-matrix for SRP
•Figure: Consumer packaging market forecast value ($, billions) and volume (tonnes, millions) 2010-2016
•Figure: RRP packaging market forecast value ($, billions) and volume (tonnes, millions) 2010-2016

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