Aug/Sep 2013
| Business World Magazine | 183
On a global scale, the packaging industry
packs a punch of some $800 billion in an-
nual economic activity, earnings which in-
clude that generated from retail operations
as well as the range of manufacturers and dis-
tributers supplying such materials as corru-
gated boxes, Styrofoam or the ever popular,
pop-able, bubble wrap. As for the shipping
industry, (according to a study conducted
in 2011) annual revenues exceed more than
one trillion dollars. While much of that is
enveloped by the triumphant triumvirate
of UPS, FedEx and DHL (not to mention
the U.S. Post Office), there are smaller niche
enterprises that also capture a significant
share of those annual earnings. These are
