• PKN partnered with HP, Currie Group and Blue Star Print to produce 4500 different versions of its front cover.
    PKN partnered with HP, Currie Group and Blue Star Print to produce 4500 different versions of its front cover.
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For our March-April issue, we partnered with HP, Currie Group and Blue Star Print to produce 4500 different versions of the front cover, with three variable areas on the cover itself: the design on the can, the PKN masthead, and the version number on the top right of the page.

You can find out more about it in this video from Mark Stevens, head of digital at Blue Star Print Group, Stephen Wong, creative executive at Yaffa Media (who designed the seed file and the cover art), and Jason Beckley, segment manager of Labels & Packaging at HP.

 

Food & Drink Business

Gold Coast brewery, Black Hops, has entered administration for the second time, with an urgent sale campaign underway for the business.

In the final chapter of court action regarding the 2020 collapse of Freedom Foods Group, the Federal Court has found former managing director and CEO, Rory Macleod, breached his duties as a director and officer, and failed to take all reasonable steps to secure the company’s compliance with its financial reporting obligations.

Australia’s food and beverage manufacturing industry is converging on Melbourne this week for foodpro 2026, the country’s leading trade event for processing, packaging and innovation. Held at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC) from 26-29 July, foodpro 2026 will be opened at 10am on Sunday 26 July by Victorian Minister for Industry and Advanced Manufacturing and Minister for Skills and TAFE, Colin Brooks.