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Home & office

Home & office products all require specific types of packaging - in the case of decoration there is not packaging but the product it self. There is no global statistics incorporated into this category of goods. The category covers packaging for clothing and textile, toys and games, do it yourself (DIY) and tools, electronics and appliances, households and laundry, stationary and cards, decoration. The last two segments do not refer to packaging but to the product itself. Overall an heterogeneous category. We recommend the readers to look at each segment to access relevant information.

End-use categories

Trends

Within the home & office categories - with few exceptions, the packaging transformation is tremendous primary driven by the raise of e-commerce as sales channels and by the new sustainability requirements. The role of the packaging in each of the segments and the associated trends should be reviewed at the segment level.