PACKAGING INNOVATIONS2013

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• Design Workshop on Benson Group Stand Benson Group, Packaging Innovations, Stand B51: Benson Group, one of the UK’s leading privately owned carton printers, will give focus to its creative design team at Packaging Innovations 2013, taking place at Birmingham’s NEC, February 27 and 28. Visitors are being encouraged to bring their constructional design questions and design briefs to the Design Workshop on stand B51 to get some immediate input and ideas. Benson Group’s innovative design team will be on the stand working on live projects. Show attendees can meet the team, have a chat about the design issues that they face, and see how the Benson team can bring fresh ideas to a brands carton packaging. Commenting on the Design Workshop concept, Nikki Clark, Marketing Manager, and head of creative design at Benson Group, said: “We hope that visitors will come and chat through their design requirements, and we can detail our thoughts on design trends, as well as sketch ideas, whilst prospects browse through a range of innovative carton solutions. Our team thrive on problem solving, so we encourage brand managers to come along with packaging challenges. I am sure that we can provide some helpful suggestions.” The Benson Group Design Studio The innovative design resource for the Benson Group is provided from the Group’s Bardon site. The Design Studio provides an inspirational area for the Packaging Design Team to work on bespoke projects for both the food and healthcare sectors of the business. Benson Group is committed to creating the future in cartons, its focus on the importance of innovative carton packaging, and the need to inspire and excite packaging designers. The Design Process The Design Team focus on the user, task and environment of the pack they are designing. They can create a range of trends boards, mood boards, sketch concepts, CAD modelling, graphics and mock-ups to satisfy the requirements of the design brief. The team are experienced at presenting their concepts in front of an audience and support the sales team in providing new product development ideas to current and potential customers. Student In-Take Benson Group been working with Loughborough University's Industrial Design & Technology Department for three years, and have taken some seven design students into the business over this time. Currently the Group has two students working in the department. They will obtain twelve months of real-life work experience in a busy packaging environment – something that will hopefully form an important stepping-stone for them in their packaging design career. It also brings fresh, innovative new ideas into the business – designs that can breathe new life into packs for Benson Group customers. About Benson Group Benson Group is one of the UK’s leading privately owned printed folding carton suppliers, producing packaging product for both the food retail and healthcare industries for a wide range of UK and European customers. The business manufactures packaging product at four production sites covering in excess of 400,000 sq ft. Benson Group continues to grow and expects to achieve annual sales for the current financial year in excess of £120 million. Food product manufacturers are the main customers at Bardon and for the company’s two North East facilities in Newcastle and Gateshead. The fourth site in Crewe serves healthcare and consumer care markets. In recent years, investment in new plant and equipment across the four sites totals in excess of £22 million. The group employs in excess of 900 personnel across all four production sites. Benson Group creates packaging for many well-known companies, brands and retailers. Key account clients across the Group include Two Sisters Food Group, Reckitt Benkiser, Greencore, and Samworth Brothers. The company is an approved supplier for all of the UK’s leading retail chains. Food and healthcare packaging is exported to customers in countries throughout Europe. For further information on the Benson Group visit the www.bensongroup.co.uk web site. ENDS https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4007785/CreativeDesign.jp...

• Benson Beauty Brand for the Best in Boxes Benson Group, Packaging Innovations, Stand B51: Benson Group, one of the UK’s leading privately owned carton printers, will welcome visitors to Packaging Innovations 2013, taking place at Birmingham’s NEC, February 27 and 28, to sample the delights of Benson Beauty! This imagined brand has been created to illustrate in physical terms the beauty and shelf appeal that print can bring to packaging products. The leading food and healthcare packaging supplier is showcasing a collection of innovative carton products, typical of the selection that many healthcare brands might need to produce, to show some of the print effects and post-press options that Medica Packaging and Benson Group can bring to a packaging solution. Commenting on the creation of Benson Beauty, Nikki Clark, Marketing Manager at Benson Group, said: “Our sales team were keen to have another way to showcase some of the excellent effects and finishes that can be applied to a printed carton. Standard product literature and samples are fine, but it is just so much better to hand a prospect a real, live sample – a carton that they can feel, hold, open and close. The Benson Beauty range really does give potential customers a hands-on experience to discover some great print effects – I am sure that it will be a great hit at Packaging Innovations.” What is Benson Beauty? The Benson Beauty collection of packs have been produced by Benson Group and Medica Packaging to show off a number of print finishing methods. Items have been created in 877 silver in conjunction with a PANTONE 622 special green colour wash. Satin varnish provides the overall soft and luxurious touch to the cartons, whilst a spot gloss effect to the large butterfly in the background illustrates the way in which detail can be highlighted on the carton. Foiling, from Frip, just adds the finishing touch to a brand name or company logo. In a simpler package, another product has been printed with a straight three-colour process, combined with the Pantone PANTONE 622 special green. Again satin varnish is used to give that tactile element to the carton, with a spot gloss effect to the large butterfly in the background to significantly enhance shelf appeal. Foiling is again used for aesthetic shelf appeal. Silver is again the background ink, with the special PANTONE 622 green ink colour wash. A luxurious feel soft touch all over varnish is used, and is enhanced by foiling. Similar to one previously mentioned finish, the fourth option is again printed with a straight three-colour process, combined with PANTONE 622 special green. Again soft touch varnish is used to give that tactile element to the carton, with foiling used to highlight the graphic details. Foiling for Effect Foiling has been applied by Frip using a range of satin and gunmetal foils to highlight graphics or text on the carton. This illustrates the fine level detail that can be achieved using foil blocking. A fluted gunmetal effect has been applied to each of the small Benson Beauty butterfly logos to really highlight it on pack. An embossed cluster of detail has also been applied to the back of some of the cartons. Showing off the Product To help show the range of pack designs that can be created, and the ways in which you can increase the pack’s visibility, one of the cartons in the range has a more rigid pick-and-place window, whilst two others incorporate highly effective flexible windows. There is also a seven-panel carton to showcase Medica’s design and production capabilities. This has been produced by printing 877 silver behind a PANTONE 622 colour wash, finished with a drip-off matt/gloss varnish. Patient Information Leaflets and Labels Normally associated with pharmaceutical items, patient information leaflet (PIL) is the general term associated with this kind of printed text that typically details dosage details for the product. On site equipment at Medica Packaging is available to produce 1,000’s or millions of leaflets, including small format folding equipment to reduce such print down to pellet size. Multi-colour labels, printed on various backing materials with multiple finish effects can also be produced at the Medica site in Crewe. Benson Beauty Whilst an imagined range of beauty products is in focus at the show, it is hoped that visitors will agree that beauty comes in many and varied forms. Beauty in packaging is the focus for Medica Packaging, and it is hoped that the Benson Beauty range helps to illustrate just some of the production capabilities available from Benson Group. About Benson Group Benson Group is one of the UK’s leading privately owned printed folding carton suppliers, producing packaging product for both the food retail and healthcare industries for a wide range of UK and European customers. The business manufactures packaging product at four production sites covering in excess of 400,000 sq ft. Benson Group continues to grow and expects to achieve annual sales for the current financial year in excess of £120 million. Food product manufacturers are the main customers at Bardon and for the company’s two North East facilities in Newcastle and Gateshead. The fourth site in Crewe serves healthcare and consumer care markets. In recent years, investment in new plant and equipment across the four sites totals in excess of £22 million. The group employs in excess of 900 personnel across all four production sites. Benson Group creates packaging for many well-known companies, brands and retailers. Key account clients across the Group include Two Sisters Food Group, Reckitt Benkiser, Greencore, and Samworth Brothers. The company is an approved supplier for all of the UK’s leading retail chains. Food and healthcare packaging is exported to customers in countries throughout Europe. For further information on the Benson Group visit the www.bensongroup.co.uk web site. ENDS https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4007785/BensonBeauty2.jpg

• Benson Group Promotes Premium Products Benson Group, one of the UK’s leading privately owned printed folding carton manufacturers, is putting its exhibition focus on premium product packaging at this year’s Packaging Innovations London 2012 show taking place at the Business Design Centre, Islington, on October 4 and 5. http://genesisnews.wordpress.com/2012/09/24/benson...

• Benson Box Win BPIF Award for Lean Manufacturing Benson Group, one of the UK’s leading privately owned printed folding carton manufacturers, is delighted to detail that its Benson Box operation has been announced as the winner of the 2012 BPIF Excellence Award in the Lean Manufacturing category. http://www.bensongroup.co.uk/bensongroup/group-new...

• Management Buyout Announced for Benson Group Benson Group, one of the UK's leading privately owned printed folding carton manufacturers, has announced that its Managing Director Mark Kerridge and Commercial Director Nick Benson have led a management buyout of the business, with support from Lloyds Banking Group. http://www.bensongroup.co.uk/bensongroup/group-new...

• Medica Packaging Introduces the Chrysalis Carton The Chrysalis Carton from Medica Packaging provides an innovative packaging solution that permanently connects the outer carton and patient information leaflet (PIL) together. http://www.bensongroup.co.uk/bensongroup/group-new...