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- <text id=91TT1618>
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- July 22, 1991: Business Notes:Packaging
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- July 22, 1991 The Colorado
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 50
- Business Notes
- PACKAGING
- A Good Egg Gets Better
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- <p> Few packages are more distinctive than the cardboard-wrapped
- plastic egg that has carried L'eggs panty hose for more than two
- decades. The catchy container and wide availability at
- drugstores and supermarkets helped make the super-stretchy,
- reasonably priced product the world's best-selling hosiery. But
- L'eggs, a division of Sara Lee, has decided to dump its plastic
- egg and switch to an all-cardboard package. One reason for the
- change is to reduce waste. While the L'eggs plastic egg is
- recyclable and is often used by customers for arts-and-crafts
- projects, the new box uses 38% less material and is made from
- recycled paper. Moreover, about a third more of the new
- containers can fit into a given store-display space. Still, a
- shell of the former image remains. The new box is tapered at the
- top, just like the old egg.
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- </body></article>
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