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How much are dog owners willing to spend on quality pet food? Investors are betting a lot.

Canada’s Eska water touches all the material bases in its sweeping array of bottled still and carbonated waters.

If the kids turn up their noses at Flintstone vitamins, maybe a packet of Italian herbs laced with B12 and niacin for their pizza is the way to ensure balanced nutrition.

Hand-knotted egg rolls are more typical of a corner bakery than a commercial operation.

Curtis Allina’s departure from Pez Candy Inc. in 1979 was abrupt, but his contribution to both the company and food packaging will live on for years.

The January edition of Consumer Reports magazine takes aim at food packages that seem to promise more than they deliver, with Lay’s potato chips cited as exhibit A.

Chalk up another craft brewery in the aluminum-container column: 16 Mile Brewing Co., a start-up brewery in Georgetown, DE, debuted its Old Court Ale and Amber Sun Ale in 22 oz. aluminum bottles in June.

Premium products demand premium delivery systems, which is why a Texas salad dressing maker pioneered the use of a no-drip, no-glop closure.

Every container company is playing the green card these days, so it isn’t surprising that a new Canadian copacker would choose to call itself the Eco-Container Corp.

The better-mousetrap principle applies to the new snap-tray container from Sealed Air’s Cryovac division.