Kudos to Coda's Spoon in a Lid

Dairy processors and consumers know it from its use in the spoon-in-a-lid closure on popular General Mills' Colombo brand yogurt packages. The industry's gotten to know it by the awards it's won for being one of a handful of real product/package innovations in the food industry adopted in 1999.

Coda International Ltd., licensor of the "Spoon in a Snap!" closure, won multiple awards for the lid, including a "Best Product of 1999" award from Business Week and a "Build a Better Mousetrap" award from Marketing Intelligence Service Ltd. The closure has also won awards from print trade magazines.

The patented Spoon in a Snap!, currently found on top of the 8 oz. cups of Colombo Classic and Colombo Light yogurts, manufactured by General Mills (which also owns Yoplait), was developed to make eating on the go more convenient. The Spoon in a Snap! is a two-piece plastic spoon molded into a plastic cap. The spoon snaps out and snaps together simply. It was developed by a Taiwanese inventor, and brought to the North American marketplace by Coda.