Jiffy Packaging is a

packaging Packaging is the science, art and technology of enclosing or protecting products for distribution, storage, sale, and use. Packaging also refers to the process of designing, evaluating, and producing packages. Packaging can be described as a co ...

manufacturer Manufacturing is the creation or production of goods with the help of equipment, labor, machines, tools, and chemical or biological processing or formulation. It is the essence of secondary sector of the economy. The term may refer to a ran ...

primarily based in

Winsford Winsford is a town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England, on the River Weaver south of Northwich and west of Middlewich. It grew around the salt mining industry ...

Cheshire Cheshire ( ) is a ceremonial and historic county in North West England, bordered by Wales to the west, Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, and Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south. Cheshire's county t ...

England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...

. It is most famous for its Jiffy Padded Bags, whose name has become a byword for

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s in

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History

Jiffy Packaging Company Limited was incorporated by the Baldwin family in 1964 to produce its namesake Jiffy Padded Bags.. The Baldwins had produced

wood wool Wood wool, known primarily as excelsior in North America, is a product made of wood slivers cut from logs. It is mainly used in packaging, for cooling pads in home evaporative cooling systems known as swamp coolers, for erosion control mats, and ...

Birmingham Birmingham ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It is the second-largest city in the United Kingdom with a population of 1.145 million in the city proper, 2.92 million in the West ...

since 1896 and

Manchester Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The t ...

since 1926 but chose Winsford in Cheshire as the base for their new company. Its product line first began to expand with Jiffy Rugated Products in 1968, and its

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J.& W. Baldwin Holdings Company Ltd sold off its wood wool facilities to focus on Jiffy and its packaging business in 1975. It initially sold its products to other packaging companies but in the 21st century began to sell more directly to consumers. It was purchased by the

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-based Pregis company but sold with the rest of Pregis Europe in 2014 to the

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Airpack,. who subsequently rebranded the purchased companies "Jiffy Packaging Europe". It now produces a range of paper,

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, and

foam Foams are materials formed by trapping pockets of gas in a liquid or solid. A bath sponge and the head on a glass of beer are examples of foams. In most foams, the volume of gas is large, with thin films of liquid or solid separating the reg ...

products. The success of the products in the United Kingdom and Europe has made "jiffy bag" a general term in

for any

s. In order to protect its

trademark A trademark (also written trade mark or trade-mark) is a type of intellectual property consisting of a recognizable sign, design, or expression that identifies products or services from a particular source and distinguishes them from others ...

s from becoming fully genericized, Jiffy has taken action since 2015including threats of litigationagainst sellers on online platforms such as

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who use their name without permission..

References

External links

* Official sites
UK

Europe
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