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- 1 2 3 4 "Jiffy Packaging: Packaged Perfection", Manufacturing Today: Europe, No. 144, Norwich: Schofield Publishing.
- ↑ "Airpack", Official site, Lodi: Airpack SPA, 2016.
- ↑ Official site, Winsford: Jiffy Packaging Europe, 2019.
- ↑ "jiffy, n.", Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- ↑ See, e.g., Stephen Fry's 1991 novel The Liar, whose protagonist receives "Toast by Post" in "jiffy-bags" sent by an infatuated former student.
- ↑ "Jiffy Hails Brand Protection Programme a Success", Official site, Winsford: Jiffy Packaging, 29 February 2016.