Fresh produce labelling and packaging - Fresh ideas
18 May 2012 | by Jack Shamash
Environmental concerns, convenience eating and longer shelf life are driving developments in fresh-produce packaging, Jack Shamash reports.
Garden centres demand too much margin to be able to sell innovative products, according to the designer of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show product of the year winner Harrod Horticultural's Slot&Lock Framework Building System.
Environmental concerns, convenience eating and longer shelf life are driving developments in fresh-produce packaging, Jack Shamash reports.
Suffolk-based Cutter Gloves has teamed up with smartphone app Aurasma to create the world's first augmented reality garden glove.
David Domoney is joining Alan Titchmarsh to present Love Your Garden, which starts again on ITV in late June. Transmission day has yet to be decided.
Colchester-based company Labels & Packaging has said its biggest seller now is a printed paper cup that looks like a takeaway coffee cup. The firm has reported 80 per cent growth in business over the past year.
Supplier GreenBlue Urban has launched a climbing plant trellis system made from marine-grade materials as an alternative to living walls.
Tracey Morley Jewkes is now marketing manager at Belstane, which makes Wellington boots.
Cambridgeshire-based Fordham Nursery & Garden Centre has taken delivery of a compact Weidemann 1350CX45 wheeled loader to streamline the handling of large trees and bulky materials.
Gardening with Wild Plants by Julian Slatcher has been published by GMC at £14.99.
Water butts are in short supply after sales rocketed by 600 per cent in garden centres following eastern and southern water companies announcing hosepipe bans.
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