GIO sources and analyzes products and packaging from 25 countries.
Our packaging assessments can positively impact your profitability by identifying potential cost savings. We analyze your brand’s sizes so you can make informed decisions about potential portfolio reductions. We also evaluate how components are being shared across multiple package shapes, helping you decide if every product line requires a proprietary package or if more component sharing makes strategic sense. Such analyses (which often factor in sales data) can help identify minimally profitable package structures and shave manufacturing costs.
Brand Equity Assessments
- Structural Packaging Analyses
- Proprietary Internal Packaging Systems
- Country-by-Country 2D and 3D Audits
- Competitive Packaging Cost Analyses
GIO provides expert assessments in package design and visual branding. We apply our global expertise to both our clients’ brands as well as those of their major competitors. By conducting a thorough, competitive packaging assessment, we help our clients best visualize how their brand’s design competes on shelf in the global marketspace.
GIO helps its clients create the most successful and meaningful visual equity and package design decisions possible.
GIO provides its clients with a thorough analysis of the package design competitive landscape for an entire category.
We take a systematic approach to assessing each major brand in the category by:
- Identifying each brand’s design strategy for creating brand unity through color, shape or logo.
- Outlining the elements that the brand uses to differentiate individual SKUs.
- Understanding how design elements change on a country-by-country basis.
- Identifying each brand’s intentions behind brand unity and SKU differentiation and assessing how successful those intentions are on shelf.
What is Packaging?
The package is the only element in the marketing mix that the consumer is guaranteed to see. It is the business end of the shopping experience. How you present your product— including the visual elements you use—must reflect the desired brand experience.
Creating great packaging is more complex than it looks. Many people view the package simply as a container for the product. However, it’s so much more than that. The package intertwines many brand equity elements: shapes (structure), labels, dispensing systems, colors, portability, graphics, and materials. Often, packaging is the only thing your consumer knows about your brand throughout the entire decision-making process leading up to a purchase.
Therefore, the exterior is as much a part of the entity the consumer is buying as is the substance contained within. In fact, in some countries—especially Japan—the package is even more important than the product. So it must communicate everything about your brand.
Each individual element of the package connects with the consumer in a different way. For successful brands, all of these elements work together to create a cohesive experience that positions the product in the consumer’s mind in the way that the brand intends. This chapter will identify these connection points and how they impact the consumer’s perceptions of the product.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]