Blaine Hurts, president and incoming CEO as of 2018, Panera said that 2018 is the "Year of the Guest"; indeed, guests are more savvy today, and demand not just quality but more options and preferences today, and thus, the fast food market is going to see innovation and serious competition, and that is what the ancillary industry thrives on. Scyphus are pretty upbeat about this trend.
Read MoreThis is not the first time Sycphus have stressed that the Coffee Shop Business, both Branded and Boutique are growing to grow by leaps and bounds for the coming many years. They write again on Coffee Market and Possibilities.
Read MoreActive Packaging, Smart Packaging or Intelligent Packaging refers to the Packaging of Food and Pharmaceuticals with programmable, smart packaging material. Intelligent Packaging can actively and intelligently alter the inner atmosphere of a package to maintain freshness, prevent corrosion, and at the same time provide information on the quality of the food and its freshness to the consumer.
Read MoreCoffee has evolved from the morning caffeine fix to a fine experience akin to good wine. In the UK, experts indicate this to be the 'third wave' in the coffee industry, where the English coffee enthusiast is moving from a simple cup of coffee to a more eclectic gourmet coffee.
Read MoreKnown for fun, modern and unique designs, Joy Love Paper Company brings a flair to birthday gifts with its newest Birthday Collection, featuring handmade foiled birthday cards and art prints that are perfect for all 2018 birthday-giving needs.
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Read MoreBiodegradable Food Service Disposable Containers are fast becoming the standard. With improving technology and better heat resistant bio-plastic resins, this will become the de facto standard in the near future. Leslie Carr of Scyphus, writes about the Biodegradable Disposable Market, its future and how Scyphus Biodegradable Section is coping with the growing demand.
Read MoreBeing part of the paper board packaging industry, and being into specialised food safe paper board packaging, Scyhpus has keen interest in the trends and Leslie Carr writes on the Paperboard Packaging Industry trends here.
Read MoreScyphus being a manufacturer of food and beverage packaging products viz. biodegradable and recyclable paper cups and boxes, food safety, food quality and trends in food quality and safety assurance are issues they keep an eye on. In this article, Lez talks about how UK is adopting organic food, increasingly.
Read MorePopcorn Boxes have evolved beyond the cinema and have become a favourite of event organisers and fast food joints alike. The primary reason, that these personalised popcorn boxes are becoming the preferred container over the erstwhile popular popcorn tubs, is the ease of storage and flexible printing options, and to top that, it's cost effective too.
Read MoreDr Theo Hacking, Director of Graduate Programmes, will be speaking at the Annual Sustainable Food & Beverage Conference at the Ricoh Arena, Coventry. Scyphus Director Leslie Carr, writes about Food Safety and a safer Food Industry.
Read MoreBranded Paper Cups designs and manufacturers all different possible paper cups and containers, and ancillary products like Cup Lids and Ice Cream Cup Dome Lids, Napkins and Beer Mats. Here are a few of the most popular products revisited, as retold by Steve Morris, of Scyphus. Steve also talks about how they have been able to manufacture in UK and still quote surprisingly unmatched low prices.
Read MoreJust like takeaway, which caters to fast food enthusiasts, a new dining culture is taking over. It's the 'home delivery' culture, online food delivery services, or direct from restaurant, home delivery of fine dining is in vogue in UK. Restaurants are gearing up with high-quality branded boxes, paper cups, pots & bags to extend their brand impression beyond the restaurant, to your dining table.
Read MoreEnglish breakfasts, fine dining, etiquette and sobriety, everything that is quaintly British is being taken over by an aggressive on the move eating and drinking, as work cultures change, and the way of life changes with that. Brits no more have the luxury of sitting at a restaurant for a quite lunch or a formal dinner. Good or bad, Britons are accepting the change and learning to live with it.
Read MoreIn-flight advertising is not new, but not known to all for sure. It is one of the most effective branding solutions available to a company, and there are enumerable benefits. It creates a rare and ideal opportunity for businesses to communicate & engage target customers in a much captivating manner. Here are a few reasons why In-Flight advertising and specially with paper cups is important.
Scyphus had earlier written on QR Codes on Cups and Augmented Reality experiences extended to paper cups. They have written on how 3.3 Million UK consumers scanned a QR code in the 2nd Quarter of 2012, and this is what you needed to make the user engage, interact and convert into a customer much more easily. But since then technology has moved further ahead and we have Shazam to replace QR.
Read MoreScyphus has been writing about Brexit and its effect on SME and Industry in General, particularly because Britain not being a major manufacturing country, they now revisit the effect of Brexit on an economy that has shifted over the years vastly from a manufacturing to a service-driven economy. In 1948, British industry accounted for 41% of the British economy. By 2013, it was just 14%.
Read MoreDiesel drivers on congested roads in towns and cities across the UK face new pollution taxes under Government plans which will ultimately herald the end of the traditional car. But this ambitious project of phasing out cars as we know will eventually increase the pressure on the power grid manifolds, the UK would need as many as 10 new power stations to cope with the electric revolution.
Read MoreSocial responsibility is often a buzz word surrounding big league corporate in modern days. That is, ensuring that an organization is giving back something from what it is taking from the society as profit. Sometimes this implies reducing emissions from manufacturing facilities, supporting community development, and other efforts that provide something back. Scyphus appeals to its patrons...
Read MoreCoupon Cups are the latest fad all across the B2C marketing industry.The closest analogy is coupons, prizes and tickets distributed by Cola companies on the reverse side of the sleeves on their PET bottles. Scyphus tells us about how and why this unique paper cup, that goes beyond its regular avatar and end up being quite quirky, is catching up so well with the non-hospitality people as well.
Read MoreIt is already established that ceramic cups require 1000 times the energy to make a paper cup, and thus unless a ceramic cup is used at least a 1000 times, it's not as green as a paper cup, which when manufactured from certified sustainable paper and recycled properly have minimum effect on the planet. The question now is, is it as safe as a paper cup either?
Read MorePLA vs PE - debates on biodegradability of PE, feasibility of PLA and changes that PLA lined paper cups could bring to the carbon footprint of a paper cup is not new, what is new is the recent consciousness of the regular coffee buyer and coffee shop owner alike towards a more environment friendly alternative to the plastic coated paper cup.
Read MoreSpecialty Paper and Envelope Wholesale Supplier will Stock Marrs Green Color Paper after Being Named Colorplan's Winner for World's Favorite Color
Read MoreHumans are visual creatures. In fact, 90% of information transmitted to the brain is visual. There's no denying it — images are what we notice first. Leslie Carr of Scyphus has written on how Branded Paper Cups are one of the most minimally visible yet present visual tools of advertising, As Ogilvy said — "a good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.
Read MoreBrand Management is a big deal, and with the upsurge in digital and mixed media advertising, it is changing rapidly. In this changing scenario, brand managers are changing strategy too, shifting focus from prolonged single media advertising such as TV or Premium Space Billboards, to micro branding like combining TV spots with Social media. Where do micro branding formats like paper cups stand?
Read MorePaper Cups are made from paper, most high-quality paper comes from wood, and wood comes from trees, so paper cups lead to deforestation. How is that good for us? Who takes the responsibility? Are environment-friendly, green paper cups possible? Here is what Scyphus, UK writes in response to these questions.
Read MoreWe interviewed Leslier Carr and Steve Morris of Scyphus, a paper product manufacturer to gauge how the paper cup industry is reacting to growing demand and how that might affect the already worrisome growth of landfills with non-compostable garbage, and also on how Brexit will affect their relations with the mainland European market
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