Cormack for Ron

Designing Hard!

Ron

Sarah Stevens our 2007 Cormack Innovation Awards Winner started her internship with us this week, learning about our company, injection moulding and the Solidworks 3D mechanical design software. Sarah has benefited from working with Tim Bird and Frag Woodall who have been helping her realize her award winning design which Cormack hope to commercialise soon.
Sarah is also enjoying the multicultural food experience of nearby Bankstown with its many Vietnamese and Middle Eastern restrau [...]

Calmar opens biggest trigger sprayer plant in China

Ron

With the opening of the MeadWest Vaco Calmar's plant in Wuxi China, Calmar has now the largest plant now in China for manufacturing trigger sprayers and lotion pumps. This purpose built facility has been built to service the growing Chinese domestic market as well as supply product through out Asia, Australia and the Pacific.

Calmar will now be supplying the best trigger sprayers built in China. Trigger sprayers built to Calmar's world renowned standards. Cormack Packaging is Calmar [...]

Thanks to Our Judges

Ron

The Cormack Awards are judged by experienced people working in the FMCG or pharmaceutical industry. These judges make the Cormack Awards unique. Our entrants are not only judged on design criteria but importantly on the criteria that is meaningful in the commercial world. Therefore our winners know that their designs, their problem solving and their solutions will be regarded as valuable in the commercial world.

Our judges give up a day of their busy professional lives and we would li [...]

The Cormack Award Top 10

Ron

The full list of the Winners, Highly Commended and Finalists for the Cormack Awards are:

The Winners

1st Place Sarah Stevens [...]

Sarah Stevens Wins!

Ron

Sarah Stevens, a 2nd year design student from Monash University has won the 6th Annual Cormack Innovation Award presented in Sydney this week. Sarah is a 2nd year Industrial Design student at Monash University's Caulfield campus.

Sarah won her award for her elegant design solution for the packaging of nails in a triangular form. Sarah's design gives the DIY handyman easy access to the nails as well as providing a secure way of transporting and storing them. Sa [...]

Cant stop the Winning!

Ron

The quality of the designers that win our Cormack Innovation Award is being displayed by their success in other design competitions. Our 2005 winner, Frag Woodall is in the final 21 of the International Bicycle Design Competition. Frag has entered his Everglide bike design which can be found here. The numbers of entries this year were 922 from all over the world. Find out more information on the competition here.

Our 2006 Cormack Innovation Award winner, [...]

Innocent Innovation

Ron

The talented design students that are competing for the Cormack Award have presented their initial ideas. The leaps of fresh, unfettered and innocent innovation displayed by these young designers was truly invigorating. We saw new takes on dispensing caps and trigger sprayers and many other ways to dispense lotions, gels and dry goods. Some of the ideas were so good that you know that they could go straight to the market and many others just need a bit of tweaking t [...]

Nestle Great First Half

Ron

As it is financial reporting time, we aim to provide you with concise information on the performance of the major consumer goods companies. It was our original intention to provide this in one post but now it seems better to provide them individually.

Nestlé has reported a great first half result that exceeded not only the analyst's predictions but also their own internal forecasts. Their growth was 8.4% up on last year's result. The growth incl [...]

Strategy in Practice

Ron

Strategy is an abused word in Australia as it is often confused with tactics. You can be regarded as strategic even if all you do, is vary the price of your products.
Strategy is all about choice, choosing to do something or choosing not to do something.
Michael E. Porter puts it like this:
" the essence of strategy is choosing a unique and valuable position rooted in systems of activities that are much more difficult to match."
Porter's HBR Art [...]

Late Nights Ahead for Design Students

Ron

Yes, the Cormack Awards are on again with design students from the leading universities competing for one of the most practical design competitions in Australia.

Students from the University of Technology Sydney, the University of New South Wales, the University of Canberra and Monash University are this year busily creating designs to meet the brief for the Cormack Award.

The Cormack Award is regarded as one of the most practical awards, as the competition crit [...]

We Won! Cormack wins coveted Industrial Design Award

Ron

Cormack Packaging has won the prestigious Western Sydney Industry Award for Excellence in Innovation.

The Western Sydney Industry Awards are an initiative of the NSW Government's Office of the Minister for Western Sydney, in partnership with the Greater Western Sydney Economic Development Board and the NSW Department of State and Regional Development. [...]