Stix News

Coffee Fest New Product Winners

August 2009

Detpak's Ripple-Wrap™ Hot Cup has a unique corrugated Wrap providing increased hand-comfort, heat insulation, and premium brand presentation. The all-in-one design eliminates the need for a separate sleeve or jacket. Read More...

Getting the Goods on What's Green

July 2009

By Karen L. Wagner

...Another innovator is Detpak, and Australian-based global supplier of paper packaging material that teamed up with StixToGo this summer to introduce the Ripple-Wrap™ double-insulated hot cups, a top seller down under. The unique corrugated wrap provides hand comfort and heat insulation without extra sleeves. The product is 100 percent compostable, one of the firm's Rebbit™ line of environmental friendly cartons, bags and cups, according to Wayne Barringer, VP of Sales & Marketing at StixToGo. Read More...

Eco-Friendly Partnership

June 2009

Splash Stick innovator StixToGo recently became the exclusive North American representative of Detpak's Ripple-Wrap, billed as the top specialty hot cup in Australia. The Ripple-Wrap's unique, corrugated outer wall increases hand comfort and keeps drinks hotter. Read More...

Exclusive Partnership

June 2009

Splash stick innovator StixToGo will be the exclusive North American Distributor of Detpak's Ripple-Wrap T, which is Australia's No. 1-selling insulated cup. Read More...

April 14, 2008 12:21 PM

By Laura Petrecca, Theresa Howard, Bruce Horovitz,USA TODAY

Starbucks (SBUX) has had enough complaints about coffee spurting from the sip holes in its lids to do something about it.

Last week, it began quietly rolling out "splash sticks" - plastic plugs for sip holes with tops in the shape of the Starbucks siren.

Starbucks Innovates And Gets It Right.

April 10, 2008

By Bruce Nussbaum

I've been hard on Starbucks lately for the disappointing service but the coffee chain introduced a new product/service recently that is superb. The little green swizzle stick-stopper that plugs the hole in the lid is pure genius. It solves a problem by stopping the cup from spilling hot coffee on your hand as you walk. It ends the need for a flat lid that doesn't have that hole, thus saving the planet from more throw-away garbage while saving Starbucks money as well. And it looks kinda cute, with the mermaid at the top. Read More...

Coffee drinkers spill beans on splash sticks

Sunday, May 25, 2008

By Carley Thornell

There's something new brewing at Starbucks and it's not the coffee. Call it what you will - plug, stopper, lid seal - a spiffy little item that the coffee-chain colossus has dubbed its "splash stick" rolled out last month with nary a splash....