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http://www.Aquent.comAquent is the only global staffing firm dedicated to helping companies increase their marketing capacity by providing the right marketing and creative professionals, quickly. We also offer marketing organizations a range of services, including consulting, outsourcing, project management, and translation. To learn more, visit aquent.com or call 877 2 AQUENT.
http://www.basf.com/corporate/index.htmlAs a leader in high-value solutions, BASF has a powerful portfolio of color and effect materials designed to distinguish products and packaging and help increase brand recognition. BASF offers cost-effective and environmentally responsible solutions to stimulate consumer senses, help protect brand integrity, and enable sustainable design flexibility.
http://www.brandchannel.comBrandchannel is an award-winning magazine dedicated to providing the world’s leading online exchange about branding. Challenging readers to think critically, its free resources including original articles, industry expert white papers and global listings of jobs and conferences to enhance brand awareness. Join a community of over 102,000 subscribers and thousands more practitioners and learn about important issues affecting brands by signing up for updates at www.brandchannel.com.
http://www.chasedesigngroup.comFounded in 1986 by Margo Chase, CHASE DESIGN GROUP is a brand strategy and creative agency working for the Fortune 100 as well as emerging companies. Chase has been the recipient of more than 100 awards for design and advertising.
Comp 24 creates high end 3D mock-ups, comps and shortrun prototype packaging in quantities from 1 to several hundred for production standards, presentations, marketing, photography and T.V. advertising. Comp 24 partners with designers, creatives, marketing and brand people to help them touch, see and hold their actual package in as many variations and as they can think of. We can print on virtually any substrate including foils and shrink film. Visit comp24.com for more information.http://www.comp24.com
http://www.g2.com/brandinganddesignG2 BRANDING AND DESIGN is a brand development and design agency committed to providing clients with innovative world-class brand-building solutions and design-driven communications beyond traditional advertising. With expertise across a broad range of branding disciplines, the agency create communications that inspire consumers and drive consumer action. The agency’s core capabilities include Brand Strategy and Development; 2D and 3D Design; Packaging; Retail Communications and Industrial Design. Clients include: The Absolut Spirits Company, Coca-Cola, Kraft, Proctor & Gamble, Pantone, Tishman Speyer, United Laboratories and Wyndham Worldwide. G2 Branding and Design is part of the G2 global network of companies, a partner agency of Grey Group and a member of WPP (Nasdaq:WPPGY).
http://www.interbrand.comInterbrand works with leading global brands to create and manage brand value through an integrated set of offerings including business strategy, brand valuation, quantitative and qualitative research, retail design, brand architecture and portfolio optimization, naming, corporate identity design, packaging design, communications creation and online digital asset management tools. There are 36 Interbrand offices in more than 22 countries helping clients elevate the role brand plays in driving measurable impact. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Omnicom Group, the industry leader in marketing communications.
Inwork is a packaging prototype organization that has redefined the traditional 'beauty comp'.
With thoughtful precise creativity and collaboration, Inwork delivers production ready prototypes for Packaged goods, Beverage, HBA, Confection and Pharma. Inwor?s key to success with design firms and corporations alike is the ability to translate design files into the most innovative and impressive packages possible. Identifying obstacles, streamlining the process and providing early color and materials exploration make Inwork the place where "design becomes reality."http://www.inworkinc.com
http://www.kodak.comKodak is the world's foremost imaging innovator, providing leading products and services to the photographic and graphic communications markets. With sales of $15 billion in 2007, the company is committed to a digitally oriented growth strategy focused on helping people better use meaningful images and information in their life and work. Leading organizations rely on Kodak's innovative products, services and customized workflow solutions to help improve return on investment and maximize efficiency and information sharing within and across their enterprise. More information about Kodak (NYSE: EK) is available at www.kodak.com.
http://www.logosbrands.comLOGOSBRANDS is an international, award winning branding and design agency offering a multidisciplinary range of strategic branding and design services. We help our North American and International clients create, renew and strengthen their most powerful assets; their brands.
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Today's informed packaging professionals depend upon Packaging World magazine and companion Web site, Packworld.com. Each month, Packaging World delivers packaging news, applications and concepts written by the most experienced journalists in packaging. Packworld.com offers supplier information and over 9,000 keyword-searchable articles and product reviews from the archive of Packaging World, easily accessible with Packworld.com's powerful 1-click search technology. For subscription and advertising information, go to Packworld.com or call Adriene Cooper at 1-800-355-5595.http://www.packworld.com
What is POPON? It's the point of purchase online network, a powerful online resource guide providing a comprehensive database of products and services in the Packaging, Display, Retail and Printing industries...all in one location! As you know, these 4 industries are imperative in creating inpact at the Point of Purchase which is why we designed the site as a "one-stop-shop". POPON accomodates everyone from brand managers to production personnnel and allows suppliers to cross market their products and services across 4 industries in an extremely cost effective environment. Visit www.popon.net to learn more.http://www.popon.net
Roz Goldfarb Associates is a full-service recruitment and search consultancy assisting branding and creative organizations find the best people to meet their goals. RGA partners with clients in design, marketing, communications and technology, on national and international searches. RGA consults on recruitment and employment management issues.http://www.rgarecruiting.comMEDIA PARTNER
Edited for professionals in packaging development, design, marketing, and brand management, Shelf Impact! offers critical insight into how leading-edge brands can leverage packaging's full potential. Published as a quarterly supplement in Packaging World and as an e-newsletter, Shelf Impact! includes trends, advice from marketing and design experts, sustainability and materials news. Subscribe at www.shelfimpact.com.
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http://smartdesignworldwide.comSMART DESIGN has been turning insight and innovation into successful consumer experiences for over 25 years. Our approach integrates product, interaction, brand communication, and strategic services to ensure winning design solutions. Smart Design’s consistent results are delivered by its multi-disciplinary, international staff working in teams across offices in New York, San Francisco and Barcelona.
True brand color. At every stage. Around the world.http://www.smartcolour.com
SmartColour is an innovative packaging color management system that allows everyone in the package design workflow to view predicted spot color at every stage of the process.
From the global leader in color and technology to the packaging market, Sun Chemical, SmartColour is a suite of products and services that work in harmony to ensure brand consistency, predictability and spot color matching in your package design workflow. Like building blocks, each component complements and supports the next as you organize, standardize and digitize your brand color palette.OFFICIAL MEDIA PUBLICATION
TIME Style & Design delivers a global, insider view on fashion, style and design to TIME's more affluent, worldly and style-savvy consumers. We are proud to not only have Kate Betts, TIME Style & Design Managing Editor, as a FUSE featured speaker but to once again be partnering with FUSE as official media publication and distributing our annual Design 100 issue at the upcoming 12th annual conference in NY. Visit www.time.com to find out more about this bi-monthly supplement from TIME.http://www.time.comBRAND IDENTITY PARTNER
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Webb Scarlett deVlam (WSdV) is a different kind of brand design consultancy, uniquely combining predictive consumer insight with 3D innovation, branding and retail impact. Founded in 1992, our multifaceted team has offices in Chicago, London and Sydney. We create innovative solutions to brand opportunities, solutions that are both motivating for consumers and commercially practical. Consumers get emotional and rational benefits; brand owners get long-term brand growth secured by defendable intellectual property, powerful brand values and improved consumer relationships. Our technical ability and resources mean implementation is easy and fast. Our ideas are real world ideas. WSdV's work spans a wide array of categories from beauty care to personal care to automotive. We have worked on notable brands including Olay, Tide, CoverGirl, Crest and Downy for Procter & Gamble; Samual Adams Boston Lager and Sam Adams Light for The Boston Beer Company; Gillette Series, Tag, and Satin Care for Gillette; and the Mobil1 brand for ExxonMobil.http://www.wsdv.com