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Barry Packaging Goes Pink for October Barry Packaging has developed an Action Breast Cancer pink carrier bag to mark Breast Cancer Awareness Month this October. 14 cent from every bag sold will be donated to Action Breast Cancer, a programme of the Irish Cancer Society. Eamonn Barry, Managing Director, Barry Packaging said, “Action Breast Cancer is a charity close to everybody’s heart and we wanted to be able to give something back. We deal with millions of Carrier Bags a year and thought this was an ideal opportunity to try something different for a good cause.” “Carrier Bags are needed…

Barry Packaging is delighted to be working with Harmonia for the 2011 Ultimate Girls Day Out. The 3 day pampering, fashion, beauty and lifestyle event takes place in the RDS Main Hall from the 26th August to 28th August 2011. Bigger, better and more glamorous than before, the three day extravaganza brings with it more fashion, more beauty, more pampering, more prizes and a few surprises to boot. Hosted by Lorraine Keane it is a definite date for any fashionistas diary. Barry Packaging has provided the perfect Goodie Bag for the event! Along with the Ultimate Girls Day Out Carrier…

Barry Packaging, Kerry’s leading provider of Carrier Bags and Packaging products has brought Fiver Friday to Kerry.The idea was developed my Wicklow Town Council to encourage locals to spend €5 on Friday July 1st to support local shops and jobs. Since then the idea has been brought Nationwide by Joe Duffy on his Live Line Radio Show. Urging his listeners to dig into their pockets and spend just €5 in their local community to give it a much needed boost. “Fiver Friday is a great and simple idea generated by the listeners for neighbours to help neighbours and to support…

As part of Barry Packaging’s Corporate and Social Responsibility Charter we are a member of Repak – Ireland’s producer recycling fund. Our Membership of Repak ensures that we meet our responsibility to the environment and to the Irish public by contributing to the cost of recycling the packaging which we supply to customers. Over the last decade, membership of Repak has enabled us and over 2,000 other Irish Businesses to contribute over €200 million to support Ireland’s National Packaging Recycling Programmes. Our contribution also supports: – Door to door recycling collection services for 1.1million households throughout Ireland. – Over 2,000…

Barry packaging is delighted to be exhibiting at the Cosmetic Associations 2011 Christmas Trade Fair which takes place in the RDS. This year the show will run from Sunday May 22nd to Tuesday May 24th. The Trade Fair is Irelands industry showpiece where industry displays its entire product range available to pharmacies, giftware and beauty and health retailers. This is the first year that the entire industry will showcase at a single venue with the most up to date range of new products, technologies and services on offer to the industry. This year’s event will play host to over 2,000…