Custom Packaging Trends

Creating custom packaging should never feel overwhelming. We’re here to break down boxes, bags, and more for you.

Is Your Packaging Wasting Brand Equity?

As packaging experts you already take on a lot: working with hard to please CEO’s,  consumers and marketing people, whose ideas are often easier expressed than executed. So, it’s understandable that one more thing added onto your ever expanding plate might seem undoable but this “thing” is vital—it’s repurposing your packaging. For many packaging designers,

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How Custom Packaging Can Save You Money

Almost all companies are out to package their product attractively albeit cost effectively. Yet, somewhere along the way the words “custom packaging” have become synonymous with “way more expensive” when compared to stock packaging. This is a shame. In all reality, many businesses would benefit, yes even in their pocketbooks, by using custom packaging rather

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Do Consumers Really Value Environmentally Friendly Packaging?

Well, it seems that depends largely on the consumer’s own personal values system. Often, people align themselves with brands that mirror their own beliefs. So, while it’s true that more and more ‘conscious consumers’ do in fact value environmentally friendly packaging such as reusable bags, it’s still rare for sustainability to be the deciding factor

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Bag Ban Legislation and Developing Alternative Packaging

Many cities and counties across the U.S. have or are currently in the process of adopting single-use plastic and paper bag bans. These ordinances regulate the types of merchandise bags or custom shopping bags business establishments can distribute, in hopes of encouraging everyone from retailers to restaurants, to shift to using reusable cloth bags. At

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5 Principles of Sustainable Branding

Sustainable branding is changing the landscape of how business practices work. No longer will slapping a company logo and slogan on custom food packaging or custom gift boxes equate to effective branding. For meaningful, sustainable branding to take place a company-wide re-imagination for strategy, operations and value needs to take place. The following five principles

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Why Some Packaging Designs Miss Their Mark

How you package your product is one of the most important decisions you will make.  Good printed packaging increases sales and boosts popularity, while bad packaging sends products directly to the clearance wall. There are many reasons why packaging designs fail: this article discusses the role of marketing missteps. Marketing and Packaging There’s an expression: “You don’t remember what people said:

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Environmentally Conscious Product Packaging and Its Influence on Brand Image

Today’s customer is exceptionally sophisticated and demanding. Packaging was originally intended to protect the product, but has evolved into a marketing tool used to attract attention, convey brand identity, and drive sales. When packaging relates to a company’s social responsibility, things get even more complex: an eco-conscious brand must be environmentally vigilant in every aspect

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How Branded Retail Bags Help Convey Your Company’s Image

The value of shopping bags as a marketing tool cannot be overstated. A customer carrying a quality bag that commands attention acts as a billboard for the brands they love; they are telling the world “Shop here!” while conveying a feeling of specialness everywhere they go. With all the choices companies have to keep their

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