Apr 16, 2018 | Coaching and Mentoring, Marketing Best Practice, Packaging, Packaging Research and Analysis
At NOA, while we’re going about our business of conducting packaging industry research to pinpoint packaging market trends, we’re hearing the phrase ‘treacle pudding’ a lot. Why? Because 2018 is being described by many we deal with across Europe as a ‘treacle pudding year’. The analogy is obvious – things are sticky underfoot, dragging along, getting bogged down. What with Brexit, uncertainty in Syria, and frosty (to say the least) relations between the West and Russia, good news is hard to find.
Apr 10, 2018 | Marketing Best Practice
In an ideal world your loyal clients would never dream of going to a competitor, but if and when a customer goes elsewhere, do you know why? Do you assume you’ve been undercut by a competitor? If you’d known them a little better, could you have prevented them defecting?
Feb 11, 2018 | Coaching and Mentoring, Consumer, Industry Associations & Partners, Marketing Best Practice, NOA Newsletters, Packaging, Retail, Webinars & Conferences
Want to get the best out of people? Want help in motivating your team? NOA delivers accredited coaching and mentoring for business professionals – which also includes workshops, masterclasses, training, webinars and presentations. Read our January newsletter…
Dec 22, 2017 | Bio-Packaging, Carton Packaging, Coaching and Mentoring, Consumer, Corrugated Packaging, Forests, Glass Packaging, Industry Associations & Partners, Marketing Best Practice, NOA Newsletters, Packaging, Packaging Research and Analysis, Paper Mills, Plastic Packaging, Recycling, Retail, Webinars & Conferences
2017 has brought us a diverse selection of packaging-related news stories. Which ones have caught your eye this year and how have they impacted your business? Here’s our month-by-month summary
Jun 1, 2017 | Marketing Best Practice
The Midlands Innovation 50 campaign is a collaboration between Mills & Reeve and TheBusinessDesk.com, in response to Birmingham’s escalating position in the global city rankings. Birmingham has been named as being an “International Middleweight” and is just two places away from receiving the status of “knowledge capital”.
Dec 16, 2015 | Carton Packaging, Corrugated Packaging, Industry Associations & Partners, Market Research, Marketing Best Practice, NOA Newsletters, Packaging, Packaging Research and Analysis, Paper Mills
As part of the November 2015 Spending Review settlement, the UK government has decided to wind down the national delivery of the Business Growth Service, previously Growth Accelerator (GA) and Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS).
This, and more, in our December Newsletter…