Developing a distinctive, engaging packaged food design that aligns with the brand’s identity is critical to stand out in the highly competitive world of food manufacturing.
How NewPoint Marketing Approaches Packaged Food Design
Make a Lasting Initial Impression: Your product’s packaging acts as its face and is frequently the initial point of contact with buyers. At NewPointMarketing, we recognize the importance of making an excellent first impression. They can use their knowledge to create aesthetically appealing packaged food designs that draw attention and spark consumers’ curiosity. You may generate an initial positive perception of your brand by investing in a well-designed box, laying the groundwork for a successful consumer-product connection.
Create Brand Recognition: Consistency is essential in creating brand recognition. My team at NewPoint Marketing specializes in designing branded packaged food designs reliably reflecting your unique brand identity across multiple product lines. They assist in building a distinctive visual language for your business by using consistent design components such as logos, colors, fonts, and photography. This familiarity fosters consumer trust and loyalty, making them more likely to choose your product over competitors.
Communicate Your Brand Story: Every brand has a story, and your packaging can effectively express that story. NewPoint Marketing is skilled in visually communicating your brand’s story. Their designs can effectively represent your brand’s distinctive selling qualities, whether emphasizing the usage of locally sourced products, demonstrating your dedication to sustainability, or emphasizing your heritage. Adding these stories into your food package design may create stronger connections with customers who share your brand’s values.
Differentiate from Competitors: Differentiation is critical in a crowded marketplace. NewPoint Marketing assists brands in developing packaging designs that set their items apart from the competition. They assess current trends, analyze customer preferences, and create designs that meet the expectations of your target audience by doing extensive market research. Depending on your desired positioning, they can strategically position your company as creative, trustworthy, or luxurious by using color, font, and images. Use NewPoint Marketing’s experience in creating unique food package designs.
Improve Shelf Appeal: Improving shelf appeal is crucial in generating sales. When consumers have several choices, eye-catching packaging can make all the difference. NewPoint Marketing is skilled in creating designs that draw attention, make your products stand out on the shelf, and persuade customers to pick them up. They ensure that your package looks fantastic and communicates essential elements effectively by blending aesthetics with strategic placement of critical information, such as product benefits or distinctive characteristics.
Aside from the significance of branded packaged food designs, it is critical to understand how they combine with shopper marketing initiatives to maximize their influence on customers. Shopper marketing is the study of consumer behavior and the development of marketing tactics to influence purchasing decisions at the point of sale. Here are some examples of how packaged food designs can effectively collaborate with shopper marketing programs:
Enhance In-Store Visibility: NewPoint Marketing has a strong track record of enhancing our client’s brand’s in-store visibility with well-designed packaging in shopper marketing promotions. When customers walk through aisles full of products, eye-catching packaging can make your product stand out. Vibrant colors, appealing graphics, and distinctive design elements can catch consumers’ attention, increasing the likelihood that your product will be discovered and considered. You increase your chances of attracting consumers’ attention and boosting sales by connecting your packaging with shopper marketing objectives.
Reinforce Promotional Campaigns: Promotional campaigns influencing purchasing decisions are expected in shopper marketing initiatives. NewPoint Marketing ensures your branded packaged food designs can help to reinforce these promotions. You can create a sense of urgency and encourage fast purchases by including promotional slogans, discounts, or limited-time deals on your packaging. Consistency in promotional materials and packaging design improves the overall effect and allows customers to recognize and associate your brand with the campaign.
Leverage Consumer Insights and Customizing Strategies: Successful shopper marketing programs rely on knowing consumer insights and customizing strategies accordingly. Packaging designs can be modified to coincide with these insights, providing shoppers with a more engaging and personalized experience. You can strengthen your connection with customers by incorporating aspects that resonate with your target audiences, such as imagery, language, or symbols that reflect their values or objectives. Packaging designs consistent with shopper insights can elicit emotions, elicit good associations, and ultimately impact purchase decisions.
Cross-promotion and bundling support: Cross-promotions and product bundling are frequent shopper marketing methods. These promotional offers can be effectively communicated to consumers through packaging design. You can highlight the cross-promotion or package using coherent visual signals such as stickers, labels, or taglines, making it more visible and appealing to buyers. Through packaging design, clear communication of the added value provided by these tactics encourages consumers to consider purchasing complementary products or more significant amounts.
Take Advantage of Digital Shopper Marketing: In the digital age, shopper marketing extends beyond physical stores and online platforms. Branded packaged food designs are fundamental in digital shopper marketing strategies. With the rise of e-commerce and online grocery shopping, it’s more important than ever to produce packaging designs that work effectively across digital platforms. A seamless online buying experience is enhanced by attention to detail in product photos, accurate packaging color representation, and optimized display design. Consistency in physical and digital packaging reinforces brand identification and fosters consumer trust, regardless of the purchasing channel.
You may increase sales (and customer engagement) by integrating your branded packaged food designs with shopper marketing activities. Packaging acts as a tangible and convincing touchpoint for consumers throughout their purchasing journey, from exploring store aisles to making online purchases. Using NewPoint Marketing to produce branded packaged food designs can provide a competitive advantage. Their expertise in design, storytelling, and market analysis can assist you in developing packaging that not only catches the eye but also interacts with people on a deeper level. Investing in visually appealing and consistent packaging can improve your brand identification, differentiate yourself from the competition, and boost sales. Take advantage of the power of NewPoint Marketing to take your packaged food concepts to new heights.
To identify and isolate areas for improvement in shopper marketing program strategies and tactics to further your CPG brand growth against set KPIs:
Maximize the economic performance of your CPG brand shopper marketing investment
Increase velocity at retail and consumer brand affinity
This shopper marketing audit will detail and contrast your CPG brand shopper marketing and messaging versus that of industry standard competitive practices and will include, but not limited to:
Target market reach, integrated retail marketing support, promotional continuity & awareness, offers and incentives, and tactical execution timing
Go-to-market launch strategies, timing, and tactical execution
Deliverables
Marketing Communication Audit Report
The deliverable will be a white paper with NewPoint Marketing findings and recommendations related to marketing activities in one retail partnership or DMA/market as defined by the client.
Brant brings 20+ years of experience to NewPoint as chief brand communicator and marketing-plan contributor.
Brant’s specialty is bringing an outside, investigative perspective that can feel alternately “rigorous” or “exasperating” depending on your point of view. Yet, he never fails to uncover a business’s unique selling proposition—one which can serve as a brand foundation for marketing that is compelling, creative and “sticky.”
Throughout his career, Brant’s applied his skill set to a broad range of business applications along the food supply-and-service chain. His services have provided vital clarity for all types of operations, from the more conventional food and food equipment manufacturers to the adjacent enterprises that partner with them, such as the Purdue University College of Agriculture.
Stephanie Bossung
Food industry marketing expertise—from retail to food-service and food-service equipment— is a natural outcome of having deep knowledge in every facet of a business’ operation. With 10 years in branding and business development, preceded by 15 years in mass media and promotions, Stephanie is an FMI Emerge mentor, holds an executive-level expertise in sales, marketing, media, and production management.
This exceptionally diverse skill set adds value for NewPoint clients by providing a full complement of perspectives on food-industry brand management endeavors.
Wired for a hawkish attention to detail while also maintaining a high-resolution view of the big picture, Stephanie is uniquely able to provide astute branding direction and simultaneously apply the business principles necessary to squeeze more bang out of every marketing buck.
Patrick Nycz
A member of the Forbes Agency Council and quoted in the New York Times, USA Today and Adweek, Patrick Nycz is the author of Moving Your Brand Up the Food Chain: Marketing Strategies to Grow Local and Regional Food Brands. He is an FMI Emerge mentor, an American Advertising Federation’s Silver Medal Award winner, and the Founding President of NewPoint Marketing, a full-service food industry marketing firm focused on food industry brands On a mission to grow.
Patrick’s vision for NewPoint emerged from his team’s success using this proven model for food industry clients and is fueled by NewPoint-funded food buyers and food manufacturers research around tracking consumer, industry, and ongoing food trends.
Kristy Blair
Since starting her 20-year career in commercial graphic design at one of the foremost catalog retailers in the world, Kristy’s visual branding skills have organically narrowed into the food-industry niche.
In that time, she’s directed graphic identities for snack food and restaurant startups, print materials for multiple agricultural seed companies, display graphics and merchandiser signage for major food-equipment manufacturers and everything in between.
Today, as one of the key brand architects for NewPoint clients, she continues to lead our visual research & development team, always working to find the innovative median between the best practices worth honoring and the accepted rules worth breaking.