Leading events organizer UBM Live today announced the six finalists of the CPhI Innovation Awards. The event will take place at Messe Frankfurt in Frankfurt, Germany. These awards were established to honour those companies that are breaking new grounds in the pharmaceutical, contract services, packaging and biopharmaceutical. The chosen finalists are 3M Drug Delivery System, Acuros, Gerresheimer, Glycotope, Johnson matthey Catalists and PANATecs.

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Finalists of the 2011 CPhI Innovation Awards Announced – MarketWatch (press release)

LAUNCh is an award-winning shopper engagement marketing company. It announced a new company division PKG Brand Design. HBN Brand Design and LAUNCH were in the field for many years. Now they joined together and formed PKG Brand Design. Both companies have produced award winning works for some of the world’s most recognizable brands across the Food & Beverage, Snacks & Candy, Retail, Promotion Packaging and Home Office categories.

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New Agency Spin-Off Is the Total Package – MarketWatch (press release)

Pentawards is the world’s leading competition dedicated exclusively to packaging design. Its chairman Gerald Caron announced its winners for 2011. The prize winners received these global trophies in the surroundings of the Marriott Marquis on Time Square in New York. The bottles of Ramlosa mineral water won the Diamond Pentaward. The categories for Platinum Pentawards are beverages category, food category, body category, other market category and luxury category.

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Pentawards 2011: The winners are… – Packaging Digest

Greenpeace activists protested against Mattel for using packaging from Indonesian forests. Mattel is the world’s largest toy company. Greenpeace has evidence that Barbie doll packing came from Indonesian rain forest. Due to this protest, Mattel will increase the amount of recycled and sustainable fiber used in its packing and products. Greenpeace appreciated Mattel’s efforts and wanted similar action from other companies also to protect rain forest.

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Mattel raises its green paper packaging standards – Reuters

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