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Interesting things about the packaging industry, retailing dynamics, consumer trends and NOA’s insight
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Impact of Covid on packaging: food suppliers flourish while demand for SRP is set to fall
“It’s a story of winners and losers,” said Neil Osment, Managing Director of NOA. “Some packaging suppliers for the food and drink retail sector have been seeing demand rise by 120% plus, while those in the food service sector may have lost up to 70% of their trade, perhaps even more.”
Investing in your team has never been more important
Neil shares his coaching thoughts over a cup of tea
Covid, coaching and mental health: how working from home has changed business
Glance back to the world BC – Before Coronavirus – and our MD here at NOA, Neil Osment, is out on the road to see one of our coaching clients in the packaging sector.
He sets off at 6am, he spends two hours with the client, he’s back at 6pm. Twelve hours, one client.
Have you seen significant work mix changes in paper packaging demand?
We have seen some big swings in market sector demand for paper packaging and in work mix; these changes have been far larger than we have ever seen in recent times in the paper packaging market.