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Retailers: Paperboard can help evolve private label

Store brands are going ‘uptown’ and reaching the store perimeter. Research identifies paperboard as one desirable material for packages to help in this push.

Introduction

A group of executives at U.S. paperboard packaging companies, known as the Paperboard Packaging Alliance (PPA), raised this question: How can paperboard packaging create more value for consumer packaged goods companies? The PPA, a joint initiative of the Paperboard Packaging Council and the American Forest & Paper Association, enlisted consultancies Packaging Technology & Integrated Solutions, Kalamazoo, MI, and NewProductWorks, Ann Arbor, MI, to help find out.