THE FUTURE OF PACKAGING 

PACKAGING FORESIGHT for your business

For over two decades, leading companies have relied on PTIS and Leading Futurists to guide their strategies and programs, through every three year Future of Packaging consortia, and now with our valued global alliance partners, provide insightful Packaging Foresight that you can use to help guide and grow your business.

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Brian Wagner
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Packaging Foresight: December 2025 – Packaging Well Curve

Jan 7, 2026

As we close out 2025, the packaging industry stands at a crossroads of unprecedented disruption—AI-driven supply chains, EPR mandates sweeping Europe and North America, and Gen Z’s unyielding demand for transparency. Yet amid this flux, one framework has quietly guided innovators for over two decades: the PTIS Packaging Well Curve. Discovered by our team in 2003, mere months after automation visionary Jim Pinto’s seminal San Diego Mensan article popularized the “bi-modal” shift in consumer behavior, this inverted bell curve has become our North Star for value creation. Today, as McKinsey’s 2025 consumer surveys echo its predictions, it’s clear: the Well Curve isn’t just prescient—it’s essential for thriving in the decade ahead. Find out how to avoid the “commodity chasm” in this month’s article.

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