How developing sustainable, well designed packaging can help win tenders

Introduction

Packaging is a vitally important part of your product, not only does it preserve and protect your products, it presents the product too.

When attempting to secure tenders to supply, your packaging can add significant value to your securing and winning tenders.

What will we cover

• Understanding the market and context for your packaging.
• Style vs costs - how to make good choices.
• Material options - sustainability, functionality and cost.
• Consumer behaviour and reducing waste.
• The design and development process explained.

Learning Outcomes

• A clearer understanding of the value your packaging can add to your product proposition.
• Understanding design and material choices and their impact on sustainability and functionality, and how to present this in a tender situation.
• Practical advice on the design and development process, roles, responsibilities and timescales.

Presenter

Janet Shipton is an Experienced packaging professional; with experience of not only working within manufacturing, retail, design, research and FMCG, but also lecturing at Higher Education level too.Co-author of 'Designing for Re-use, The Life of Consumer Packaging' Tom Fisher and Janet Shipton. 2010

Event and Booking Information

The workshop is for Leicester or Leicester business only that are working within food and drink processing. If your business is not in this area, we will be unable to send you joining instructions, but please do look at our General Webinar Series, where there may be further support available.

All our events are interactive. To gain the most benefit, please join with a laptop or PC so you can engage fully in the experience, enabling your camera if possible, to allow the presenters to connect fully with their audience.

Once you have registered and before the event, you will receive an email from Eventbrite with the MS Teams Link, this will be sent 1 day and 1 hour before the workshops commences. Please click the link on the invitation to join the webinar.

The event is free of charge to all Leicester and Leicestershire businesses.

The Food and Drink Forum are running this event for the Biz Gateway.

If you have difficulty booking onto a session, please send an email to holly.spencer@foodanddrinkforum.co.uk, who will be able to provide support. Alternatively please call 0115 9758810.

We look forward to having you as part of our event.

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