Stikkord: Isbre-mint

Hi Erik,

My first thought with regard to exporting carbonated drinks is that if you ordered them in bulk quantities (e.g. several boxes each containing several bottles), you could reuse the packaging in which you received them to transport them safely to Norway. The other advantage is that you would be able to purchase the drinks at a lower cost and make a better profit. However, you would have to be confident there was a market for them before making the purchase yourself.

By the way, don’t feel you need to send any more sweets before you ask for advice! I’ll be happy to answer any packaging question if I know the answer.

Best wishes,

Tim

From: Erik Ribsskog [mailto:eribsskog@gmail.com]

Sent: 25 November 2010 14:30
To: Tim Sykes
Subject: Re: Sweets

Hi Tim,

well I have had some problems with hackers, and am now working on another website, to do with my blogs.

But I'll try again to set up a new webshop, besides my job-search, later this year, or in the new-year.

I thought I'd better send the glacier mints, or else I couldn't ask for packaging-advice again.

Only joking!

But I wondered, in Norway they don't sell the soda-pop brands Dr. Pepper and Coca Cola Cherry.

I wondered about selling them to Norway, in single boxes and 6-packs.

Have you please got some suggestion for the packaging?

(This is in the future, maybe next year, so it's no hurry).

Thank you very much again for the e-mail!

Best regards,

Erik Ribsskog

On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Tim Sykes <tim@packagingeurope.com> wrote:

Hello Erik,

We have just received the packets of sweets you sent us. Many thanks! We shall enjoy them.

I hope your business is going well.

Best wishes,

Tim

From: Erik Ribsskog [mailto:eribsskog@gmail.com]

Sent: 11 October 2010 13:21
To: tim
Subject: Re: Hi Tim,

Hi Tim,

that sounds very smart.

I'll send some mints/sweets, that I sell to Norway, to your office, to Irina or something, as thank you for the help with the packaging/wrapping.

At least if the customers buy them all, at once 🙂

Only joking.

Thank you very much for the advice with this.

I'll check on Staples and places like that.

I'll put the crisps and the tortilla chips and the alcohol, in an own online Off Licence now, I thought.

So then I have some time to find the right packaging, before that online shop opens.

So I already have a spin off, on the sweets/mints-shop.

(Since they stopped selling Glacier Mints in Norway, for some reason.

And I've read that the customers miss them there).

But we'll see if someone buy them yet.

I haven't started marketing yet, on Google etc.

So I can't say for sure if it's going to be a success yet.

But if it is a success, then I'll think I'll subsribe to the Packaging Database, that I worked on, in 2007 and 2008, to find the best and most in-expensive packaging-solution.

We'll see.

Thank you very much for the help with the advice again!

Best regards,

Erik Ribsskog

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 12:40 PM, tim <tim@packagingeurope.com> wrote:

Hi Erik,

It’s good to hear from you. I’m pleased to hear about your venture and hope it proves a big success.

That’s an interesting question about the packaging. I agree that there would be a real risk of damaging the crisps in transit. You would definitely need an additional layer of packaging to protect them – maybe a light cardboard box, preferably small enough for the crisps package inside not to rattle around. This should be fairly cheap and is light but provides some rigidity to protect the crisps.

Best wishes,

Tim Sykes

Editor, Packaging Europe

Tel +44 (0)1603 414 444

Fax +44 (0)1603 406 543

tim@packagingeurope.com

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From: Erik Ribsskog [mailto:eribsskog@gmail.com]

Sent: 10 October 2010 20:17
To: tim
Subject: Hi Tim,

how are you?

Thanks for the co-operation, with the Packaging Europe-database, in 2007 and 2008.

I've now started a new webshop, specialising, in selling British food, to Scandinavia, (and Europe):

http://www.godtebutikken.net/

I have some problems with the packaging, for the crisps and the tortilla-chips.

I thought maybe it was ok, if I asked you, since you work in the packaging-industry.

I need a packaging, that is light-weight, (because I send with airmail), which is in-expensive, (since the products aren't that expensive), and which have room for the 6-packs of 30 grams crisps and tortilla chips, that are very popular, in the UK.

I sell mostly British sweets, but some customers have alse enquired about the crisps.

I used to work as a food shop-manager in Norway, so this is two of my fields, IT and groceries/food.

Since they have stopped selling the Glacier-mints in Norway.

So I thought I could sell them on the internet, since many people in Norway, miss the Glacier-mints.

(I've read on the internet).

I mostly use buble-envelopes.

But, I'm not sure if these are good enough, to send as air mail, without the crisps being broken into many pieces.

I understand this is not really packaging, but more like wrapping.

But I just thought about the packaging-job, when I thought about this, with the wrapping.

So I thought that maybe you would know about this.

Do you think it's possible to send the crips to Norway etc., without them being distroyed?

Hope this is alright!

Best regards,

Erik Ribsskog