Diamond Selected as a Procter & Gamble Supplier of the Year

Diamond Packaging was named a “Supplier of the Year” by the Procter and Gamble Company during P&G's first ever global Supplier Summit on October 15, 2008. P&G hosted the event with its 350 top global suppliers to discuss their continued collaboration for a sustainable future and to honor top performing suppliers.

“We are thrilled to have won this award,” said Karla Fichter, Chief Executive Officer of Diamond Packaging. “Our partnership with Procter & Gamble is especially rewarding because of our shared commitment to innovation and sustainability.”

“Suppliers of the Year” achieved this award by consistently scoring the highest in broad based quantitative and qualitative evaluations by P&G employees throughout the supply chain.

Diamond was recognized for providing superior packaging solutions for multiple products lines, including P&G's Gillette division (blades, razors), and Clinical Strength antiperspirants and deodorants. Diamond has also been instrumental in the success of several P&G product launches, including Gillette® Fusion™, Gillette® MACH3®, and Venus®.

“Our suppliers are critical partners in helping us bring innovation to life, manage our costs and improve productivity,” explained P&G's Global Product Supply Officer Keith Harrison. ›› more

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by JoAnn Hines, Packaging Diva

The news says everyone is worried about the economy and consumers are spending less. Is this causing your product sales to decline? Typically, consumers cut back spending during hard economic times. So how can you counteract product doldrums when the economy is in a recession or a slowdown?

The first thing to understand is that consumer still "buy" things. For example, 70% of all packaging is food related and people still have to eat. They just buy in different ways. They may cut out fast food or restaurant purchases in favor of home prepared meals. But they still want to purchase the same conditions. In the case of fast food, this means easy to prepare, reheat, or ready to eat. Wal-Mart's fresh, take home pizza is a good example of fulfilling a need. In my case, in place of a restaurant trip I opt for its rotisserie chicken that is ready to go with dozens of applications for meal prep. But I still want convenience and limited meal prep too.

To understand how to recession proof your packaging you need to learn to recognize what buying signals ›› more

FSEA Launches Green Initiatives
by FSEA

The Foil Stamping & Embossing Association (FSEA) is seeing green! The association recently has taken several steps to begin a campaign to educate many sectors of the graphic arts and design communities on sustainability and other environmental issues related to foil stamping and embossing.

The first step within this new initiative involved hiring a third-party company to conduct a research and development study to confirm and certify that foil stamped board/paper is recyclable. The results from this study have just been completed and confirm that foil stamped board/paper can be recycled without causing any problems in the recycling process. The FSEA is now working on preparing the study for distribution ›› more

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