Packaging is frequently a challenge for independent restaurants and small chains who want to go plastic-free with sustainable solutions but struggle with rising costs and frequent stock outages from suppliers.

Sessions partnered with Seamlessly and Takeaway Packaging to create a packaging marketplace dedicated to benefit restaurant partners with competitive pricing, ease of ordering and attractive bundles; helping to launch a Sessions brand with high quality, sustainable products. 

By creating an ecosystem of technology and supplier partners, on a mission to create the best experience for independent restaurants, Sessions is able to pass on the savings from creating economies of scale and more efficient processes back to restaurant partners; while offering packaging that is better for the environment.

“We’re always looking for ways to simplify the onboarding process for our partners and this has solved an important part of operations for us. With over 100 kitchens in our network, we needed a simple platform for operators to be able to order packaging and we’re very happy with the sustainable solution we’ve created with Seamlessly and Takeaway Packaging.”
Dan Warne, CEO, Sessions

“Seamlessly & Takeaway Packaging have combined our unique experience in technology, supply chain and fulfilment to offer food tech scale-ups a fully outsourced model for their branded and catalogue packaging requirements.  This enables focus to grow the core business while providing restaurant hosts with economies of scale for their packaging needs and ease of ordering through a customised webstore.

We are super excited to partner with Sessions enabling restaurants to launch a Sessions brand effortlessly with sustainable packaging that is affordable.”
Mustafa Khanbhai, Venture Partner, Seamlessly

About Sessions

Sessions was launched by Dan Warne, former MD of Deliveroo, with the goal of bringing the most exciting talent in food to neighbourhoods across the country through their venues and delivery kitchens. Shelter Hall launched in 2020 and Neighbourhood launched in 2022. The kitchen residencies rotate regularly to give customers the opportunity to discover new chefs and brands, while they also add in-demand brands to their portfolio for delivery. Their network of 100+ delivery kitchens is rapidly expanding with more growth planned to establish Session as the distribution platform for food brands in the UK.

About Seamlessly

Seamlessly help mission driven tech companies launch, source and scale business operations by creating custom ecosystem’s of technology and supplier partners. Seamlessly works with companies like Uber, Zume, Sessions, PickMe and Avasam and has accelerated their go-to-market strategies with sustainable supply chain solutions and distribution. Read more about the projects they have managed here

About Takeaway Packaging

Takeaway Packaging (Packme ltd) source and manufacture branded & catalogue products from their network of suppliers within the UK, Europe & Asia. Over a very short space of time Takeaway Packaging have become the highest ranked food packaging supplier on Trustpilot with a 4.9 average review rating, which showcases their high level of customer service and quality. Clients include National QSR’s as well as serving independents and smaller chains.

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Avasam are an automated drop ship solution with verified suppliers vetted and held to account through feedback. Whether you are looking to backfill stock shortages to combat re-ordering delays, or to expand your selection to increase profits while you wait for new stock lines to be manufactured and arrive, Avasam reckon that they can assist. If you can’t access stock from your normal supplier, an automated drop ship solution could offer an alternative brand until you can restock with your preferred brand.

As you would expect, Avasam have integrations with both eBay and Amazon, but they’ve also recently launched a raft of new integrations, adding support for the OnBuy and Wish marketplaces and BigCommerce and Shopify webstore platforms. WooCommerce is an integration that is already in place, so regardless which platform you trade on it’s likely that Avasam can automate your drop ship requirements.

There are many reasons you might wish to add inventory to your store whether it be on marketplaces or on your own website. Increased profits are one, a broader selection to attract more customers is another and of course with the addition of complimentary products you can also increase your average order size and stop customers going elsewhere to purchase. Think accessories and consider what people buying your products might also wish to purchase – if it’s electronics, it could be anything from protective cases to screen protectors, if you sell cycles it could be repair kits to saddle bags.

The other compelling reason to try an automated drop ship solution is to prove new product lines before you invest heavily in stock. Test the market without any stock investment and if you see sales growing in a positive direction then you know your customer base is in the market for the products. You can then confidently order in bulk or commission the manufacture of your own private label versions having already proven the business case for investing in new stock.

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Zume, the sustainability solutions company creating economically viable substitutes for plastic packaging, today announces additional strategic expansion and global distribution of its molded fiber manufacturing technology. The achievements include partnerships with major distributors and manufacturers across over 20 countries including Packme Ltd (UK), Seamlessly Ltd (UK), Transcend Packaging (UK), Rausch Verpackung GmbH (Germany, Austria, Switzerland), Eocrep SARL (France), Korrex Group (Russia and CIS), and No Waste Living IKE (Greece), among others. The deals will bring sustainable packaging solutions to the UK, Germany, Greece, Austria, Switzerland, France, Russia and more.

The UN predicts by 2050 there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish. Responding to these figures, nearly every brand in the world has a plastic reduction commitment, but change has been slow due to a lack of competitively priced alternative solutions. Zume’s response to that problem is creating first of its kind technology to bring sustainable packaging solutions to the global market.

Zume aims to replace single-use plastic, a $320B a year industry, with a single tech stack that offers global food brands the hardware, software, and services to transition away from plastic without disrupting manufacturing processes or the bottom line.

“Zume deploys the world’s most advanced molded fiber cell technology which is enabling some of the world’s largest brands to reduce their global plastic waste stream,” says Alex Garden, Zume Inc. CEO and Chairman. “These new global partnerships are important as we continue to affect much-needed change to the food packaging industry on a global scale.”

Continued Expansion and Partnerships

These new partnerships bring Zume’s fully compostable packaging solutions to even more international markets and arrive just weeks after the distribution deals across North America, India and Europe that the company announced earlier this year. Most recently, the company announced three groundbreaking sustainable manufacturing deals both stateside and internationally with Texas-based Jefferson Enterprise Energy as well as Parason and Satia Industries of India.

As creators of the world’s most advanced molded fiber manufacturing equipment and technology, Zume offers flexible robotics, rapid prototyping, and other software and hardware solutions that enable molded fiber products to perform equal to or better than plastic at a competitive cost and overall superior value.

Earlier this year, Zume debuted a new line of compostable molded-fiber bowls, meal boxes, 3-compartment trays, and cups that are among the first in its class to provide an anti-leak solution with a corresponding snap-fit lid to prevent spills. This unprecedented design is made possible through the company’s patented technology, which outperforms traditional machines across all vital parameters, including cycle time, capacity per machine, and ability to make complex geometries and products.

Zume also recently received the “Silver Winner” Conor from the 2021 MUSE Design Awards in the Sustainable Packaging Design category.

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