This year's winners of the "Product Innovation in Glass" award have been announced. The Glass Packaging Action Forum honours KollektivTee, Friedrichs Gin Liqueure and Shake lemonade with the established industry award.
The Glass Packaging Action Forum is awarding the "Product Innovation in Glass" prize for the seventh time this year. It honours original products packaged in glass from the food and beverage sector. The four experts on the jury from the fields of packaging, beverages, design and food selected from the three nominees in each category and finally the winners.
Loose tea in a returnable jar
In the category Small companies the product KollektivTee of the KarmaKollektiv UG won the race. The jury's reasoning: "With KollektivTee, the KarmaKollektiv UG an innovative packaging concept on the tea shelf, focussing entirely on sustainability and social commitment. With its loose teas in classic reusable yoghurt jars, which are filled in cooperation with the Berlin workshops for people with disabilities, the start-up reinterprets classic tea through glass packaging and the reusable concept. And despite the limited design possibilities, it has created an attractive and absolutely harmonious product."
Well-known spirit reinterpreted
For the category Medium-sized and large companies the choice fell on the Friedrichs Gin Liqueure from Schwarze und Schlichte GmbH & Co. KG. The reason: "The Friedrichs Gin Liqueurs in the flavours Grapefruit and Ginger show how to redefine a well-known spirit. Schwarze und Schlichte GmbH & Co. KG continues to develop the gin trend with these liqueurs, bringing a fresh product creation to the market - combined with a harmonious and appealing packaging design. The The design and bottle shape with high-quality print round off this special innovation. off."
The Crowd favourite was elected online for the first time in 2020 via the website of the Glass Packaging Action Forum. In previous years, the election took place as part of the Glass Trend Day. The Shake lemonade of curameo AG was the favourite among the six nominees in the online voting. The company can now look forward to receiving a glass Möbius strip.
The nominees for the "Product Innovation in Glass" 2020
In addition to the winners KollektivTee and Schüttel-Limo, the jury nominated the Single malt whisky of St. Kilian Distillers GmbH in the category Small companies. On the nomination list for the category Medium-sized and large companies stood Pawnshop from Alnatura Produktions- und Handels GmbH and WHYNE® from Lauffener Weingärtner eG.
[infotext icon] The Glass packaging action forum is an initiative of the container glass industry in Germany and part of the umbrella organisation of the German glass industry, the Bundesverband Glasindustrie e. V. Since 2000, the Glass Packaging Action Forum has been communicating the many special features and advantages of glass packaging to packaging decision-makers and the public. It is also the first point of contact in Germany for all questions relating to glass as a packaging material[/infotext].Source: Glass Packaging Action Forum
