Working Areas

The research and consulting activities are focused on sustainable product management topics, particularly for packaging and food.

Consumer Packaging

Industrial Packaging

Food

Retail

Focus on Packaging

The packaging related research and consulting activities are focused on optimizing packaging systems from an economic and environmental perspective.

 

Topics include:

  • Quantification and optimization of the environmental impact of packaging solutions
  • Packaging LCAs
  • Increasing the cost-effectiveness of packaging use in connected value chains/TCO optimization
  • Optimization of packaging design and information presentation on packaging
  • Analysis of consumer requirements for packaging solutions
  • Conducting customer surveys
  • Conducting competitive analyses
  • Market potential assessments for innovations
  • Product and concept tests

 

The focus is on both industrial and consumer packaging.

 

Focus on Food

The food related research and consulting activities are focused on the analysis of market and consumer trends in the food sector, as well as the evaluation and optimization of food products from a marketing and sales perspective.

 

Topics include:

 

  • Analysis of consumer and market trends in the food sector
  • Evaluation of the impact of food labels on packaging
  • Evaluation of sales promotion campaigns 
  • Business planning for new products/innovations
  • Conducting product and concept tests 
  • Marketability checks for innovations
  • Conducting customer surveys
  • Conducting competitive analyses
  • Market potential assessments for innovations

 

Holger has published numerous research studies on actual food trends and topics together with DLG e.V.

 

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