London Packaging Week tops 5,000 guests for the primary time in its historical past

London Packaging Week, which was held on eleventh and twelfth of September 2024 on the ExCeL London Worldwide Exhibition and Conference Centre, attracted a record-breaking variety of guests with greater than 5,000 passing by means of the occasion’s doorways over two days. This marks a brand new milestone within the occasion’s 12-year historical past, stated Easyfairs UK, the corporate behind the honest.

Initially launched over a decade in the past as Packaging Improvements & Luxurious Packaging London, the occasion has developed right into a dynamic platform for manufacturers, packaging designers, technologists, and suppliers to attach and innovate. The 2024 version featured greater than 190 exhibitors, showcasing packaging merchandise and options throughout a number of sectors, together with magnificence, luxurious, meals, drink, and FMCG.

Key job features represented among the many attendees included managing administrators, normal managers, founders, CEOs, inventive administrators, packaging designers, and gross sales and enterprise improvement leaders. Attendees included main gamers throughout a number of sectors, from fast-moving client items giants like McDonald’s, Burger King, PepsiCo, and Mars, to luxurious manufacturers akin to Burberry, Harrods, and Jo Malone, alongside cosmetics icons like Estee Lauder, Charlotte Tilbury, and The Physique Store. The premium drinks sector was additionally represented, with names like Diageo, Pernod Ricard, and Bacardi collaborating.

Muhammad Usman, Procurement Supervisor, PZ Cussons, commented: “That is my third yr coming to London Packaging Week, I come yearly! I observed yearly it goes extra in the direction of sustainability and carbon impartial which is an efficient factor. I’m right here to discover a recycled kind of fabric and have discovered plenty of exhibitors offering this.”

“This present has been incredible for us,” stated Sebastian Clifton-Welker, Key Account Director at Meadow. “We’ve attracted curiosity from each small companies and enormous multinational companies, together with Unilever, Harrods, and PZ Cussons, all trying to incorporate our options into their portfolios.”

Subsequent yr’s London Packaging Week will return to ExCeL throughout 15 & 16 October 2025.