Overview
- Calbee said it will shift the packaging of 14 core snacks, including Potato Chips and Kappa Ebisen, to black-and-white starting with late-May shipments.
- The company cited unstable supplies of printing-ink inputs due to a naphtha shortfall, which is a petrochemical feedstock used to make those materials.
- Japan’s agriculture ministry met Calbee to hear details of the change.
- Major retailers said they had already received notice of the plan.
- Mainichi reported that the simpler packs could spread if shoppers accept them, even as the government says supply is sufficient.