LONDON – According to Euromonitor International’s Voice of the Industry: Sustainability Survey 2021, 80% of industry professionals consider climate action important, but costs and lack of internal knowledge about available solutions are widening the gap between awareness and action.
The global consumer packaging industry is one that has largely, if not exclusively, exhibited resilience in the face of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, recording retail packaging growth of 3% in 2020, to reach 3.8 trillion units. There are a number of trends and influences at play as consumers’ purchasing habits and priorities evolve while the external pressure of environmental regulation and sentiment will also continue to shape the consumer packaging mix, in the years ahead.
The pandemic’s impact on coffee shops was significant. While no segment of the US restaurant industry was spared, the importance of morning commuter traffic to away-from-home coffee consumption meant the initial effects of lockdowns and work-from-home orders on channel demand were especially severe.

Since the United Nations urged world leaders to declare a state of climate emergency to avoid irreversible damage, sustainable living and climate change has been high on the agenda for countries, businesses and consumers.
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Professional sporting events are slowly beginning to open up for fans to attend in-person but the industry as a whole still has a long way to go before fully recovering from the pandemic.
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In this panel discussion, Euromonitor experts will take a deeper dive into how consumers, global manufacturing and trade have been affected by COVID-19 and what this means for the future economy.
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