PHOENIX —The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) is looking for retailers members to join its new subcommittee addressing retail-ready packaging, reported Supermarket News. Stephen Sibert, GMA’s senior vice president of industry affairs, made the announcement in a presentation at the Supply Chain Conference, sponsored by the FMI-GMA Trading Partner Alliance.
Supermarket News quoted Sibert as saying GMA encourages anyone to get involved in the subcommittee that is addressing how packaging can become easier to identify, open, replenish and dispose/recycle. The subcommittee’s retail-ready packaging resource guide is scheduled to be completed in 60 days.
Supplier members of the subcommittee include Georgia-Pacific, J.M. Smucker, Schwans, Continental Mill, Mars, Procter & Gamble and Unilever.