On a recent episode of the hit show “Grey’s Anatomy” a patient asks Dr. Meridith Grey for a tissue. What does Dr. Grey provide? None other than a box of Sniffles Bedside facial tissue! You can see the distinctive mauve carton in this screen shot. This is not the first time Sniffles has appeared on Grey’s. The […]
At our annual blood drive for American Red Cross, in conjunction with our neighbors in the Kaukauna Industrial Park, more than 35% of PPC employees donated. Thanks to our team members who answered the call.
While we can, and do, efficiently produce standard sizes and counts, we really shine on specialty sizes like the Sniffles Mini here. These smaller sizes for healthcare situations or for “on the go” fit very well with our capabilities. Cubes, or uprights, fall into the category of specialty sizes as well.
After determining the concept was feasible at a cost, and that the cost had a marginally attractive payback, we moved forward and the new system was installed in July. The opportunity to make progress on our sustainability vision made the marginal financial payback acceptable. The picture shows the portion of the system that enters the plant from […]
Here’s the third and final version of the mini. We appropriately call this one “blue” and accept that we are masters of the obvious. Production starts for real next week!
Here’s the second version of the new Sniffles Mini Retail for the vehicle. We’re calling this one “green” even though it’s obviously a combination of green and blue. I’ll post the third and final version soon.
Here’s the first of our Sniffles Mini Retail carton versions. There will be three versions of Sniffles Mini Retail randomly packed in each case. Look for Sniffles Mini Retail this fall at leading car washes, convenience stores and auto parts stores. It’s made to fit in vehicle door bins and in the facial tissue holders found in several car […]
More than twenty PPC employees and family members participated in the 2012 Pig-to-Pig Walk sponsored by Larry’s Piggly Wiggly in May. PPC contributed just over $200 to sponsor the walkers and benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
PPC has entered the social networking world. We’ve maintained a PPC page on LinkedIn for a while and this week started a Facebook page for Sniffles Brand Tissues. Please check out our page at the link below and consider “liking” it. We plan to use the page to get feedback from consumers on various marketing […]
An NSF International visited PPC on April 19th for the 2012 full-day audit of our quality and product safety processes. PPC passed it’s first third-party audit from NSF in April of 2011. We received the final report this week and are pleased to report we passed again and improved on our score from last year. We have […]