Description
INTRODUCTION
Retail-ready packaging offers multiple benefits in terms of operational efficiencies and brand enhancement. A high-growth area with relatively few key players, opportunities exist in the established European market where technological advances are crucial to the uptake or RRP and in less developed markets like Asia and North America, where RRP is under-utilized for a variety of factors.
FEATURES AND BENEFITS
- Understand the benefits and challenges of retail-ready packaging to manufacturers, retailers, and consumers.
- Consider the optimum design features of successful retail-ready packaging.
- Gain an insight into the size of the retail-ready packaging market - and how it is forecast to grow.
- Explore new technologies that are having an impact on innovation in retail-ready packaging.
- Identify key players in the retail-ready packaging space.
HIGHLIGHTS
Market opportunities exist in the Asia-Pacific region where the packaging market is growing in response to changing consumption patterns in the grocery sector, and in North America where RRP is under-utilized despite the size of its grocery market.
The use of new technologies in corrugated board such as die cut boxes, in microfluting, and in higher quality finishing and printing techniques is creating exciting opportunities - and demand - for more robust, lightweight, and eye-catching RRP designs.
The RRP market is dominated by a small number of large companies with interests in corrugated packaging including Smurfit Kappa, Amcor, DS Smith and Mondi, as well as a handful of key players with a smaller but highly specialized stake in the RRP market such as SCA Packaging, i2i Europe, and Industrial Packaging Group
YOUR KEY QUESTIONS ANSWERED
- How can RRP benefit my business and my customers?
- What are the costs involved in implementing RRP?
- What are the key features of successful retail-ready packaging?
- What new technologies are impacting the development of RRP?
- Where are the big market opportunities in the retail-ready packaging space?
Table of Contents
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Introduction
Main trends in RRP
New technologies in retail-ready packaging
Industry and the retail-ready packaging sector
Conclusions and trend projections
Introduction
Summary
Introduction
Different forms of retail-ready packaging
Replenishment-ready packaging
Shelf-ready packaging (SRP)
Display-ready packaging
Infrastructure-ready packaging (IRP)
Features of RRP
Advantages of RRP
Cost benefits of RRP
Impact of RRP on store labor costs
Space utilization
Point-of-sale (POS) benefits
Cost implications of RRP
Sustainability
European environmental legislation
UK sustainability initiatives: WRAP and the Courtauld Commitment
Environmental legislation in Asia Pacific
Other legislation
Main trends in retail-ready packaging
Summary
The consumer packaging market
The wider picture
Retail-ready packaging
Regional breakdown
Consumer behavior
Retail trends
New technologies in retail-ready packaging
Summary
Introduction
Applications
What are the leading technologies and strategies defining the market?
Corrugated board / microflute
Microflute printing
Innovation in microfluting
Plastics / bioplastics
Display-ready packaging
Shelf-ready packaging
Returnable / re-usable packaging
Package design
Increased printing quality
Optimal product counts
Lightweighting
Issues with RRP
Industry players in the RRP sector
Summary
Introduction
Major RRP players
Smurfit Kappa
Amcor
DS Smith
Mondi
Smaller RRP players
SCA Packaging
i2i Europe
Industrial Packaging Group
Bosch Packaging Systems
Retailer case studies
Tesco
Waitrose
Walmart
Kroger
Conclusions and future trends
Summary
RRP market forecasts
Sustainability
Cost benefits
Case study - UK supermarket sector
Co-operation is a must
Technologies
Appendix
Glossary / Abbreviations
Bibliography/References
TABLES
Table: Consumer packaging market, regional breakdown (%), 2010
Table: Consumer packaging market by material (% of value) 2010
Table: Standards for US corrugated flutes
FIGURES
Figure: Example of shelf-ready packaging
Figure: Display-ready packaging
Figure: Benefits and challenges associated with RRP
Figure: Houdek sausages DRP
Figure: Indirect labor costs generated per product vs. RRP efficiencies
Figure: US retailers - number of stores, sq. ft./store, SKUS/store and sq. ft./SKU
Figure: Potential cost implications of RRP
Figure: Co-op reduced packaging for its own label tomato puree through RRP
Figure: K-Roll retractable wheel pallets
Figure: Value of the consumer packaging market ($bn), 2006-2016
Figure: RRP market ($bn), 2010-2016
Figure: Top ten global grocery markets ($, millions) 2006-2014
Figure: Advantages of micro-flute
Figure: Constellation wine pack using R Flute RRP technology
Figure: Shelf-ready packaging for Sainsbury's sliced cheeses
Figure: P&G shelf-ready packaging for Alldays
Figure: Crystal Clear Trays
Figure: STI variable tray concept
Figure: How to avoid usage issues with RRP
Figure: Major RRP players
Figure: Cross-section of Smurfit Kappa solid board
Figure: Cross-section of Smartboard
Figure: Example of DS Smith RRP products
Figure: Otor's 8 corner box
Figure: Mondi RRP examples
Figure: Smaller RRP players
Figure: PDQ trays
Figure: Oral B RRP for Walmart in the US
Figure: Kroger cost-matrix for SRP
Figure: Consumer packaging market forecast value ($, billions) and volume (tonnes, millions) 2010-2016
Figure: RRP packaging market forecast value ($, billions) and volume (tonnes, millions) 2010-2016
