2002

PA Consulting Group reveals the business advantage for PET containers in rapidly growing Functional Food & Beverages markets: Paper at Nova-Pack Europe 2002, Düsseldorf, (26 September 2002) - 11 September 2002

Dr Clive Edmonds from PA Consulting Group, the leading international management, systems and technology consultancy, will explain the advantages that using PET (PolyEthylene Terephthalate) containers and filling technologies can give to manufacturers, retailers and consumers in his *paper at Schotland’s Nova-Pack Europe 2002 in Düsseldorf, on 26 September (*9.50am).

Clive, who heads the Consumer Products Group in PA’s Product and Process Engineering Practice, will explain the recent expansion in the functional foods and beverage markets in Japan, Europe and the US, and will predict future packaging development and demands on materials - especially PET.

The paper will examine how greater protection of bioactive ingredients (such as antioxidants, pro-biotic bacteria and other oxygen and light sensitive, physiologically beneficial ingredients) will be needed to meet future branding requirements and consumer demands for product visibility and convenience.

It will provide a good opportunity for marketeers, technical specialists in functional food and beverage companies, and packaging industry personnel to gain valuable insight to product differentiation in this increasingly sophisticated area of the FMCG market.

PA’s dedicated product and process engineering practice has a unique combination of industry expertise and engineering capability, delivering solutions from concept right through to launch. It develops award-winning products, automation and manufacturing processes at the Group’s International Technology Centre in Cambridge, and creates step-change innovation programmes resulting in reduced ‘time-to-market’. Its understanding of innovation can transform the contribution that technology makes to a business.

Nova-Pack Europe 2002, 26-27 September, Swissôtel, Neuss (Düsseldorf), Germany.

This year’s World Star Award at Interpack 2002 went to PA Consulting Group for its design of the distinctive Evian ‘Action’ bottle.

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For more information, please contact:

John O'Neill PA Consulting Group Cambridge Technology Centre Melbourn Royston, HERTS SG8 6DP United Kingdom Tel: +44 1763 267 133 Fax: +44 1763 267135 E-mail: john.o'neill@paconsulting.com

Notes to editors

PA Consulting Group is a leading management, systems and technology consulting firm, with a unique combination of these capabilities. Established almost 60 years ago, and operating worldwide from over 40 offices in more than 20 countries, PA draws on the knowledge and experience of some 4,000 people, whose skills span the initial generation of ideas and insights all the way through to detailed implementation.

PA builds strategies for the creation and capture of shareholder and customer value, and helps clients accelerate business growth through innovation and the application of technology. PA works with clients to improve performance, mobilize human resources and deliver change effectively, including managing major projects, and designing and implementing enterprise-wide systems and full e-business solutions.

PA focuses on creating benefits for clients rather than merely proposing them, and this focus is supported by an outstanding implementation track record in every major industry and for governments around the world. PA also develops leading-edge technology both for its clients and within its own portfolio of venture companies in areas ranging from software to wireless technology to life sciences.

PA distinguishes itself from its competitors through the range and quality of its people, the depth of its industry insight, its development and use of technology, and also its independence and culture of respect, collaboration and flexibility in working with clients.

We are proud that our clients say "PA makes it happen".

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