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There's never a dull moment in the dynamic Australasian packaging industry, with M&A activity, leadership changes, and product innovation keeping our news desk busy all year long.

From Orora's booming growth over the financial year, to the Australian Government's pledge to make all packaging in the country reusable, compostable or recyclable by 2025, to needles in strawberries and plastic bags out of supermarkets, to the first ever Print21 + PKN LIVE joint event, 2018 was a rollercoaster of a year for the packaging industry... and PKN was there to cover all the news highlights.

See our review of the year that was in the latest issue of PKN magazine.

Food & Drink Business

Unilever Food Solutions has released its latest Future Menus trend series, outlining four key trends that it expects will shape eating through 2026-27 – culinary roots, street food couture, borderless cuisine and diner designed.

Wide Open Agriculture has added three prospective Asian manufacturing partners as it accelerates its shift away from owner-operated production in Germany towards a lower-cost, capital-light manufacturing model.

Coles is giving Flybuys members a simple way to stretch their Christmas budgets, with the launch of Collect for Christmas to help customers redeem up to $400 off a single shop at Coles or Liquorland.