#MyBestBreakfast

My Best Breakfast: Just Live a Little join forces with P7 pupils to wage war on sugary cereals. Following on from the launch of their Low Sugar Granola, Portaferry-based gourmet granola brand Just Live a Little is teaming up with primary schools to educate P.7 students about what really goes in their breakfasts. Inspired and…

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Package Me Pretty

We’re attending the Irish Beauty Show at RDS Dublin on the 5th of March, and are so excited to meet innovative, invigorating, and independent Irish beauty brands! Wow. That was a lot of alliteration. We wanted to formally introduce ourselves to the exhibitors, so we developed ‘Package Me Pretty’, a black matte laminate box with…

PPP does Patisserie! (Oh yes we do)

It’s the trend that’s still in fashion almost 200 years after it was introduced by Anna, the seventh Duchess of Bedford, but we’re guessing the addition of Prosecco / Champagne maybe appeared a little bit later on. A real must for ladies who lunch, sometimes an afternoon tea coma can quickly ensue, and the multitude…

PPP’s Perfect Night In

Here at PPP the only thing we really get romantic about is when we produce a particularly good piece of packaging (they’re all good, to be honest, but we can’t boast too much). It makes us feel all warm and fuzzy inside. And while we may be self-confessed experts on packaging, we’re glad to say…

The Thing About Foil …

There’s a big, shiny, light-grabbing elephant in the room. So, it’s time to talk about it. Can carton-board packaging with foiling be recycled? Yes – yes it can. via GIPHY We were wondering the question ourselves, what, with all this recent uproar about recycling. So we did a little bit of digging. One of our…

Top 5 Free From Foods

Food without gluten, dairy and (gasp) – meat, can still be delicious. There we’ve said it. So how can we make such a claim? Well, we’ve found out from our customers that it is possible as much as it is commendable to make tasty, if not tastier, free-from foods. We do quite a lot of…

PPP Key Trends for 2018

Quickly following on from the flurry of soon-forgotten News Year’s resolutions (Dryanuary, Tryanuary & Veganuary anyone?) is the flood of expert predictions of what will be trending in 2018. Well, with 45 years’ experience behind us, we’re here to give our 2 cents on what we think we’ll be seeing more of in packaging this…

Christmas Checklist: Festive Feast

There are two types of people at Christmas: Those who have everything organised, stockpiled and ready to go from day dot, or you know, the rest of us who do a supermarket sweep on Christmas Eve wondering if 10 packets of pigs in blankets will actually be enough (it is). We’ve comprised a Christmas Checklist…