The packaging industry remains attractive to private equity as the industry is growing and offers opportunities to move strategically through acquisition, according to Mesirow Financial.

In the last few months, Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev) has been flooding the market with packaging that captures consumer interest. The Budweiser bowtie-shaped can hit store shelves in May, soon to be followed by patriotic-colored bottles of Bud. And its Bud Light Platinum will make a debut in 10 packs of 11.5oz resealable aluminum bottles in July.

Five packaging companies have joined together to form the sixth largest rigid and flexible packaging company in the world. Operating under the banner of Exopack Holdings Sarl, a new Luxembourg company, the combined business will have 63 plants, 8,650 employees, and aggregate revenues of more than $2.5bn.

As sustainability continues to affect many segments of packaging, the cosmetics/health & beauty areas have been a bit of a thornier proposition.

In an industry first, Veteran’s charity Stoll has worked together with integrated brand design agency bluemarlin to launch Forces Sauces, a new range of table sauces that support vulnerable and disabled ex-Servicemen and women across the UK, as well as those currently serving.

The Consumer Specialty Products Association releases the results of its 2012 Aerosol Pressurized Products Survey, which serves as an annual indicator of the business strength of the aerosol products industry. For a third consecutive year, U.S. aerosol product production increased setting a new record high with more than 3.8 billion total units filled. The addition of 33 million more units filled – a 0.9% increase over the previous year – contributed to setting a new high mark for aerosol production in the United States. This year marks the 62nd year CSPA has conducted and released the results of this survey. Survey data were collected and verified by the independent firm, Association Research, Inc.

BNP Media announces the purchase of Converting Influence and the live annual event Converters Expo, which takes place March 13, 2014 in Green Bay, Wisconsin at the Lambeau Atrium.

The "big idea" took center stage at the 2012 Sustainable Packaging Forum, and the packaging industry must come to grips with what that will mean for them. That big idea

The only global event focused solely on the connection between the food industry and packaging, this world-class meeting and networking event brought together key brand owners, retailers, packaging converters, service

The 2012 Structural Packaging Summit offered an enriching experience to explore the latest tools, trends, issues, and technologies integral to the package development process and to support the creation of

Packaging Strategies' 2012 Global Pouch Forum offered strong testimony about the evolution of the pouch, its continued market penetration vs. the bottle and the can, and its ongoing battle to