From local restaurants to national chains, many use plain stock packaging for their catered meals. More food service companies are now realizing that custom catering packaging represents a powerful branding opportunity, though it also presents complex supply chain challenges. Here are two best practices for ensuring the successful use of custom catering packaging. Catering Packaging…
Retail POS Display Ingenuity
January 28, 2016Two recent projects had permanent retail point-of-sale display requirements but only temporary display budgets. Here’s how we rose to the challenge. Hardware Tool Bag Display One of our hardware manufacturer clients needed to display a premium, backpack-styled tool bag ($100 retail) to stand out in the aisle among lower quality, private-labeled bags on the shelf….
Retail POS Display Trends: PDQs & In-Shelf Displays
January 12, 2016Having created numerous retail point-of-sale (POS) displays for club and big box stores in 2015 (and for the last 50 years), we’ve run across a few floor display trends that consumer packaged goods companies (CPGs) need to know. These trends involve cosmetics, footwear, pets, toys, hardware, eyewear, electronics, and more. This is part 1 of…
Retail POS Display Trends: Floor Displays
January 11, 2016Having created numerous retail point-of-sale (POS) displays for club and big box stores in 2015 (and for the last 50 years), we’ve run across a few floor display trends that consumer packaged goods companies (CPGs) need to know. These trends involve cosmetics, footwear, pets, toys, hardware, eyewear, electronics, and more. This is part 1 of…
Wishing You a Happy New Year
December 23, 2015Here at TPH, we’d like to wish you a Happy New Year and Peace in 2016, and we thank you for a great 2015. We’ve made a donation to Little Sisters of the Poor & Greater Chicago Food Depository in your honor. This year was full of great retail packaging design and POS display projects,…
Footwear Retail Packaging & Displays
December 7, 2015From shoes to boots to slippers, we have five decades of experience creating both retail packaging and displays for the footwear market. Considering that $20 billion of the $43 billion total US footwear market is imported from China ($17 billion) and Vietnam ($3 billion), we also have extensive experience co-packing in Asia, which saves our…
Liquor Retail Packaging & Displays
November 19, 2015From packaging to displays, TPH has a long history working with liquor and spirits producers that want to stand out in a way that reinforces and extends their brand. Liquor Packaging Packaging can make or break a product, and that is especially true with liquor and spirits. As global competition intensifies, it’s increasingly difficult to…