In a first-ever virtual awards ceremony for the Australasian Packaging Innovation & Design Awards (PIDAs), winners were announced across six categories today, including Food and Accessible Packaging Design.

Fresh food brand Pitango is rolling out its new, vibrant packaging design across its entire range as it aims to highlight the goodness found in every pack.

Australian wine brand Hardys is rolling out a global rebrand, with new wine packaging, designed by Denomination, hitting Australian stores this month. It forms part of Hardys' new ‘Certainty’ campaign, focusing on the brand’s confidence in its wine quality.

In the lead up to Mother’s Day, Cadbury has released a limited edition Roses box, featuring an exclusive design by local illustrator Sarah Hankinson for the packaging.

The ANZ region has outshone global counterparts in the 2020 WorldStar Special Awards, winning two golds, a silver and a bronze award for food and beverage packaging design, and bringing the region's 2020 WorldStar tally to a record-breaking 21.

Dineamic, an Australian ready meal provider, is moving from plastic to eco-cardboard packaging for its tray meals, to be sold at Coles and IGA starting this week.

Cadbury has revealed its new global brand identity across its entire Cadbury Dairy Milk range. The new look celebrates the brand’s inherent spirit while adding a modern twist.

Unilever is the first major consumer goods company in Australia and New Zealand to source high volumes of locally sourced, post-consumer recycled HDPE plastic for its locally made personal care bottles, Unilever said in a statement this week (2 March).

Yoghurt business The Collective is introducing recycled plastic (rPET) across its packaging as part of a company-wide sustainability effort to reduce its environmental impact.

After 20 years of working across large companies in the UK and Australia, industry identity Liza Vernalls has launched her own package development consultancy, LV Consulting.

South Australian-based dairy company Australian Fresh Dairy has completed new packaging for its signature YoMate yoghurt brand, ahead of a planned major export push of the product into China.

Dual QR code packaging innovation is at the heart of global food giant Danone’s digitally enabled Track & Connect service for consumers and retailers, introducing a new level of supply chain transparency for its baby formula brands.

Packaging and display business Orora is going through some turbulence, according to the company’s half-year results, with business lagging in North America.

New Zealand’s iconic Whittaker’s chocolate company has installed a new, custom-built piece of machinery that can weigh and bag up to six different flavours of chocolates in one operation.

Sidel has installed a complete, flexible PET line to handle sensitive beverages and carbonated soft drinks for Bickford’s Australia. This is the first time Bickford’s has invested in aseptic technology with dry preform decontamination.

Cadbury has trialled new 100 per cent sustainably sourced recyclable paper wrapping for its chocolate products in New Zealand.