🇨🇴

Packaging & Label Design for Brands in Colombia

Colombia's food and beverage sector underwent a fundamental packaging shift in June 2023, when Resolución 2492 de 2022, implementing Ley 2120 de 2021, the 'ley de comida chatarra' (junk food law), made black octagonal 'exceso en' front-of-pack warning seals mandatory for ultra-processed foods, forcing a redesign wave comparable to Chile's earlier reform. Beyond compliance work, Bogotá and Medellín are among Latin America's most design-literate markets, driven by export categories that compete purely on presentation: Colombia produced a record 14.87 million 60-kg bags of coffee in the 2024/25 harvest, its best output in more than three decades, generating roughly US$3.8 billion in export revenue and supplying around 40% of US coffee imports, largely under FNC-affiliated and Juan Valdez branding. Colombia is also the world's second-largest cut-flower exporter after the Netherlands, with the United States absorbing about 80% of shipments.

Get a Free Quote View Portfolio

Colombia Packaging Regulations

INVIMA (Instituto Nacional de Vigilancia de Medicamentos y Alimentos) governs food, cosmetics and pharmaceutical labelling and enforcement. Resolución 2492 de 2022, regulating Ley 2120 de 2021, requires black octagonal front-of-pack warning seals reading 'exceso en' (excess in) sodium, sugars, saturated fat or trans fat, positioned in the upper third of the front panel; the rule took full effect 15 June 2023, with non-compliant products subject to removal from sale and significant fines. Resolution 5109/2005 continues to govern the general nutritional-labelling table in Spanish for prepackaged foods generally. Decree 1500/2007 covers meat and poultry inspection and labelling. 'Café de Colombia' is protected as an EU Protected Geographical Indication, the first non-European agri-food product ever granted PGI status by the EU, awarded September 2007, administered by the FNC (Federación Nacional de Cafeteros).

Key Industries in Colombia

Coffee export (FNC, Juan Valdez, world's second-largest arabica producer), cut flowers (world's second-largest exporter after the Netherlands), processed food and beverage (Grupo Nutresa, Postobón, Bavaria, now subject to front-of-pack warning labelling), pharmaceutical distribution, oil and gas (Ecopetrol), and e-commerce.

Services for Colombia Clients

Browse the full range of our graphic design services, from labels and boxes to logos, print and digital, all delivered print-ready for brands in Colombia.