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 Ampacet Ampacet Corporation is a leading provider of colors, special effects and functional additive masterbatches for polymers used in consumer goods and packaging for all industries including personal care, household, automotive aftermarket, pharma, food/beverage and cosmetic/beauty industries. Working closely with design and product development teams to develop custom colors, textures and enhanced performance attributes, we provide retail shelf differentiation that connects the brand to the consumer.
From highly reflective, liquid metal values to simulated brushed aluminum or frosted effects for polymers, Ampacet provides a wide range of colorants and effect formulations guaranteed to excite the consumer. Ampacet can also provide Color Consultation Services that connect prevailing social and economic global trends to individual brand identities.
Quality and consistency is in our DNA. We work with our global consumer company partners to assure that products manufactured at multiple worldwide locations adhere to the same exacting specifications.
With 18 manufacturing sites located in 13 countries, Ampacet Corporation is a leading global provider of colorants. Headquartered in Tarrytown, N.Y., Ampacet Corporation employs more than 1,500 people worldwide and operates technical, color development centers and manufacturing sites throughout the Americas, Asia and Europe.
http://www.ampacet.com
 BLIS - Bell Litho Internet Solutions
Our flagship product,
SpeedMarketing®, helps companies balance GLOBAL BRAND STANDARDS with LOCAL
MARKET RESPONSIVENESS. SpeedMarketing is a brand collaboration tool that
creates flexible communications that both adhere to corporate standards and are
responsive to the local market needs. The resulting communications work better,
and the brand experiences greater field buy-in.
No new hardware, software, or I.T.
resources are required. SpeedMarketing® is delivered through an Internet
web-browser as a software-as-a-service.
http://www.bell-blis.com
 Elasti Tag The ElastiTag® has proven to be an eye-catching marketing tool in grabbing the attention of consumers. Not only have our customers told us their sales increased while using the ElastiTag®, it also offers a solution in reducing overall packaging
 CIULLA ASSOC CIULLA ASSOC is a strategic brand design consultancy, that delivers innovative positioning and visual solutions for flagship and emerging brands worldwide.
CIULLA ASSOC offers brand-building expertise to our client partners for brand expansion– focusing on identity, package design, and structural design. The team, comprised of senior strategists, design professionals and production specialists, digs deep to drive insights-driven design architectures and iconic brand identities throughout the CPG landscape. The result is a meaningful, emotional connectivity between brand and consumer that drives loyalty and love. CIULLA ASSOC offices are located in the River North Gallery District of Chicago. http://www.ciulla-assoc.com
 Dragon Rouge Dragon Rouge is the largest independent brand and design consultancy
with offices in New York, Dubai, Hamburg, London, Paris and Warsaw. The
firm shapes brands along their entire life cycle (from innovation to
creation) by applying its philosophy of entrepreneurial branding.
Entrepreneurial branding is a mindset that recognizes that marketers
need to challenge the status quo in order to create long-standing value
creation. To find out more visit our website at
 Elmwood
Elmwood has won more International
Design Effectiveness Awards than anyone else in the last year, and cumulatively
over the 20-year history of the scheme. The awards recognise the commercial
success of design strategy. We have worked with retailers from Coles in
Australia to Walmart in the USA through to Pets at Home, B&Q and Ann Summers,
the sex toy and lingerie brand, in the UK. We also work for many of the world’s
largest FMCG names like Nestlé and Unilever.
http://www.elmwood.com
 Interbrand Founded in 1974, Interbrand is recognized for being at the forefront of the dialogue on brands as business assets. Today, Interbrand is among the largest brand consultancies and has grown to include 36 offices in 25 countries. The combination of rigorous strategy and analytics with world-class design creativity help its clients to create and manage brand value in all market dynamics. It is widely respected for its annual study, The Best Global Brands, and for creating a broader platform for the discussion of brands on the Webby-award winning brandchannel.com. http://www.interbrand.com
 Inwork Inwork specializes in the creation, production and management of authentic comps for
consumer package goods companies. Our ability to merge creative expression within technical parameters enables companies to fully tell their product story.
Inwork believes design excellence is the result of shared experience—an agreement to
realize common goals and expand possibilities. In this way, Inwork delivers visual coherence from concept through testing and production.
 Pearl Fisher Pearlfisher is a global design agency that connects strong brand truths with powerful desire. Pearlfisher creates design informed by Insight, distilled by Strategy, and brought to life through Realization. In doing so Pearlfisher creates the most powerful and loved brands – Challengers & Icons. An independent business, Pearlfisher are world leaders for design effectiveness. With studios in London and New York, Pearlfisher creates design for the future, now, and forever.
 Product Ventures Product Ventures, a renowned creative agency, is dedicated to helping clients shape products and packaging to enhance consumers' lives. The staff, led by CEO Peter Clarke, is comprised of industry experts within the disciplines of consumer research, graphic design, industrial design and engineering. This strategic team is able to address all aspects of a challenge including brand communication, style, ergonomics, and manufacturing efficiency. Their unparalleled facilities and state-of-the-art prototyping equipment allows for fast and accurate embodiment of thought. Product Ventures' proven process enables the generation and transformation of ideas into marketable solutions and has garnered success for the world's best known brands.
http://www.productventures.com
.jpg) Think Kaleidoscope Kaleidoscope is an integrated brand design realization firm that provides brand development and packaging solutions for consumer products goods companies and retailers. Headquartered in Chicago with offices in New York and the UK, Kaleidoscope collaborates with clients to discover, evolve and capture the most effective go-to-market strategies through 2D and 3D brand experiences. To learn more, visit the company Web site at: http://www.thinkkaleidoscope.com
 Webb deVlam Webb deVlam is a brand strategy and design agency. Our projects are extremely diverse - from organic yogurt to implantable pacemakers. However, one thing connects everything we do: creating brand opportunity.
Discovery, Innovation, and Design are the cornerstones of our organization. Discovery identifies insights and builds strategy, Innovation provides breakthrough thinking, Design delivers outstanding creative execution.
Our approach involves examining challenges from three perspectives: Brand, Business and Consumer (BBC). We thrive on resolving the paradoxes that frequently occur between each area.
http://www.webbscarlett.com/
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