Due to their ‘essential’ status in more than 20 states as suppliers of medicinal products, cannabis businesses are reporting strong sales amid the pandemic.

Some healthcare segments are already well established in the homecare setting, but others will need to quickly adapt to the movement toward more frequent in-home patient care services. Freedonia Custom Research's William Cochran addresses the trends and opportunities.

What will affect protective packaging growth through the coronavirus crisis and beyond?

Mass infections among employees are leading to temporary facility closures and declines in output. What will happen after these challenges?

Retail sales of cannabis products are forecast to advance 18% per year through 2024. The best opportunities are expected for edibles and topicals.

As leading drug makers face state legal challenges for their role in the opioid epidemic.

According to a recent report from The Freedonia group, global e-commerce packaging demand is forecast to reach $22.1 billion in 2023, spurred by robust growth in e-commerce sales worldwide.

Most consumers have made an online purchase at some point in the past year - and at least one of them was probably from Amazon. The ubiquity of Amazon and other e-commerce sites in American life has broadly increased consumer awareness of not just online shopping, but also protective packaging - a $27 billion market in 2018.

Currently, information about the cannabis, hemp, and CBD industry is complex, and becomes even more so when you consider the conflicting patchwork of state and federal regulations.

In particular, one aspect of these regulations – packaging – seems to raise more questions than answers.

Pressure sensitive tapes might seem humble, but the market for these products is expected to reach $44.6 billion in 2023, according to a new report by The Freedonia Group.