PACKAGING, LABELLING & CODING
How Continental Kosher Butchers
reduced its label inventories and time to market With the need for more than 5 million labels each year, Australia’s largest Kosher meat supplier turned to insignia for an overprint solution that has reduced their label inventories and improved their time to market with new products.
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ustralia’s largest Kosher meat supplier, Continental Kosher Butchers, provides meats, smallgoods, antipasto, specialty delicatessen items, dried spices and pantry staples to larger supermarkets, smaller retailers, the food-service industry and is now exporting to customers in Asia–Pacific. The company produces over 150 meat SKUs and 50 smallgoods items and prints in excess of 5 million labels each year. Continental Kosher Butchers has unique labelling requirements due to its rapidly growing product range, ingredients lists, nutritional values and varying weights. 18
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With traditional labels and packaging, Continental Kosher would be faced with having to hold label stock for each individual product. Finding space to store the all the different label stocks would be difficult, not to mention the risk of getting stuck with expensive, unusable labels if packaging or labelling regulations were to change.
The solution Continental Kosher uses a pre-printed template label and overprints the variable information for each product type, in-house, as each batch is produced. The labelling solution includes:
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