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Brown-Bagging Rises; Products Meet The Challenge

An NPD Group poll shows that more folks are bringing their own lunches to the office than they were a few years ago and Brandweek rounds up a few examples of marketers responding the to development.

They include Deli Fresh Natural Cheese slices and Oscar Mayer thick-carved and family-sized meat varieties from Kraft; ConAgra's new Banquet Select Recipes frozen lunches; and Ronzoni Bistro microwaveable pasta from New World Pasta.

While "brown-bagging" has become a useful gerund to describe the process, I suspect most people now use some sort of plastic material to transport their lunches to and fro. Maybe I'm wrong. Another trend story for another day.

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