Learn From Success in the Innovation Zone

At the Summit, sponsors and exhibitors will showcase Success Stories. The Innovation Zone is the perfect environment for progressive companies to position themselves as a source of store brands innovation.


Sponsors and Exhibitors

GROUP360 Worldwide is a full service communications firm, providing our clients with a distinct competitive advantage by helping them get their brands to market faster, with greater efficiencies and higher quality, than ever before. We compress the time it takes to get to market by offering a fully linked, end-to-end, go to market solution. From a single, dedicated source you have one strategically focused point of contact for: Strategy, Creative, Packaging, Retail Marketing, Experiential Marketing, Photography, New Media, Pre-media and Image Asset Management.


Daymon Worldwide is the global retail branding and sourcing partner that works directly with the world's leading retailers and manufacturers to provide customized solutions. Daymon's expertise includes branding & strategy, insights & measurement, private brand development, and shopper marketing. Daymon has 22,000 associates worldwide, with offices in over 20 countries on six continents.


Global Tissue Group has fostered a reputation for providing value for our business partners and personal customer service to each and every one of them. We're relied upon for flexibility, confidentiality and quality, from products and services, like our specialized capabilities and custom-tailored private label paper programs. Our goal is to ensure that no matter what your needs, Global Tissue can deliver.


Bring private brands to life with Avery Dennison innovations in the hottest label looks, newest packaging technologies and the most recent functional packaging solutions. Help deliver shelf impact with our materials and film innovations. Influence consumers’ and win at the point of purchase. Enhance your brand with Avery Dennison. www.enhanceyourbrand.com


Tetra Pak is the world's leading food processing and packaging solutions company. Working closely with our customers and suppliers, we provide safe, innovative and environmentally sound products that each day meet the needs of hundreds of millions of people in more than 170 countries around the world. With almost 22,000 employees based in over 85 countries, we believe in responsible industry leadership and a sustainable approach to business. Our motto, "PROTECTS WHAT'S GOODTM," reflects our vision to make food safe and available, everywhere. More information about Tetra Pak is available at www.tetrapakusa.com.


UL-STR

Bemis Company is a multinational supplier of flexible packaging used by leading food, consumer products, and healthcare companies worldwide. For over 150 years, Bemis has been developing revolutionary product platforms for the packaging industry that have reset the standards for packaging and established Bemis as a market innovator. Bemis’ expertise in material science results in unique product solutions that continuously evolve to meet the ever-changing needs of the modern world.


Ampac drives packaging transformation by creating concepts that are more innovative, progressive and dynamic than those used by competitive brands. Ampac's comprehensive approach to packaging is a balance of rigorous, technology-driven thinking and exceptional creativity. Ampac is a global leader in retail, food, pet food, security, and medical packaging markets.


Clement Pappas & Co. is a leading supplier of cranberry sauces and beverages including juices, teas, and waters. We offer the stability of a family-run business. We deliver value to our customers through responsiveness, customer-focused innovation, and leadership. We build your sales and support your strategy with leading insights and services.


ConAgra Store Brands Vision: ConAgra Store Brands is the leading supplier of Store Brand wholesome snack bars and fruit snacks, with more than 80% of Total US volume. ConAgra Store Brands provides excellent quality and is at parity to the leading national brand across all segments. Our mission is to Be the Best-In-Class Store Brands Partner in Categories we Participate, by Delivering Superior Quality, Service and Category Management Expertise.


EskoArtwork is a global supplier of integrated solutions for packaging, sign and display finishing, commercial printing and professional publishing. Its products and services help customers raise productivity, reduce time-to-market, lower costs and expand business.


Kaleidoscope is the brand design realization firm that provides breakthrough brand packaging solutions that are swift and smart. Our comprehensive range of integrated capabilities and iterative design prototyping optimizes research, reduces time-to-market, and eliminates costly redundancies. From concept development to manufacturing and print, we have the creative and implementation expertise to get it done right. 


Ralston Foods is the leading manufacturer of Store Brand breakfast cereals. We are committed to excellence with our Best in Class Approach through every stage of a product's lifecycle. From the quality and strategy that go into developing a product, to the packaging, innovation and marketing it takes to get a product on shelf, Ralston Foods' goal is complete satisfaction for all its customers and their consumers.


Schawk’s Retail Practice is comprised of experts in every phase of brand development and brand deployment for retailer brands. From brand strategy and portfolio optimization to design, premedia, print management and more, Schawk, Inc. delivers solutions for retailers that are integrated in ways proven by great consumer brands.


Sierra Packaging and Converting LLC is the leader in packaging innovation, we offer a broad range of packaging solutions, our markets include dry fruit, frozen and fresh fruit and vegetables, poultry, cheese, protein, snacks, confectionery as well as cosmetic and pet foods. All printing, laminating and converting is done in Sparks Nevada. We pride ourselves state of the art innovation, sustainability, resource reduction and service.


UL-STR

UL-STR (formerly Specialized Technology Resources, Inc.). or over 50 years, UL-STR has been a driving force behind the development of store brands, working closely with private label retailers and manufacturers to ensure successful product launches through customized quality assurance solutions, sensory testing, and consumer studies.


WS Packaging Group offers the widest array of printing and flexible packaging across 17 manufacturing facilities in the U.S. and Mexico. For over 40 years we've produced high-quality packaging products for worldwide customers ranging in size from small businesses to large, high volume manufacturers and consumer product goods companies.


ZipPak

Zip-Pak offers a broad range of resealable packaging solutions to processors and packagers, as well as film and pouch converters. By working with leading manufacturers of packaging equipment, Zip-Pak is able to offer a variety of innovative zipper and Slider options to provide the consumer-preferred package that is just right for each application.


Exhibitors

Coffee Bean International is among North America's finest specialty coffee roasters. We offer private brand roasting and our own brands with a commitment to hand-crafted quality and sustainable practices, together with a unique partnership model designed to help clients become coffee destinations.


greenblendz, Inc., located in Auburn Hills, Michigan is a full service specialty blending facility which is certified Organic & has met the cGMP (Current Good Manufacturing Practice Regulations) compliance requirements while receiving the coveted “Excellent Compliance” ratings. cGMP compliance, added to Greenblendz’s ever-expanding capacity to service all-sized runs for consumer packaged goods companies and private label brands, puts them in a global leadership position in the escalating green, non-toxic product industry.


Innovative Labeling Solutions provides game-changing package print solutions for today's private label brands. As the market has shifted, there is an opportunity to create new levels of relevance, engagement, and impact for store brands. ILS, a digital package printing specialist, uses the powerful HP Indigo print platform in answer to these new market realities. Our total product life cycle solution meets the needs at every stage, from product launch to full production.


Leahy-IFP specializes in manufacturing environmentally advantageous alternatively packed juices, smoothies, and bar mixes. With aseptic carton, bag in box, and stand up flexible pouch capabilities, Leahy-IFP has a solution for you. Our state of the art AIB Superior rated facilities are located in the Midwest and on the West Coast.



It began over 36 years ago with a single jar. Today, LiDestri Food & Beverage products feed more than six million people every day. The company is recognized as one of America's premier manufacturer of the food industries highest quality Pasta Sauce & Alfredo Sauce, Salsa & Con Queso, Cooking Wines, Vinegars, Infused Oils, Specialty Syrups, Barbecue Sauces, Fresh Apple Cider, Iced Tea, Lemonade and Drink Mixers. Through its four state-of-the-art USDA-approved plant locations – in Fairport and Rochester, New York; Lansdale, Pennsylvania; and Fresno, California – LiDestri produces in excess of two million jars of sauces, dips and specialty products each and every day. www.lidestrifoods.com.


Condensed Natural Smoke™ and Flavors from the Kitchen™ emulate the authentic flavors of smoked, grilled, roasted, fried, sautéed, caramelized and other savory cooking methods. Let us demonstrate, at no cost to you, how we deliver customized and authentic, flavor solutions that will help differentiate your brand and build loyalty.


Vitrue is the leading provider of social media publishing software, offering tools to help brands harness the marketing potential of social media. The industry-leading Vitrue Social Relationship Management (SRM) Platform is for brand marketers of all sizes, as well as agencies, to message, manage, measure and maximize interactions across Facebook and Twitter.


Yupo

Yupo Corporation America. YUPO Synthetic Paper is 100% recyclable, waterproof and tree-free, with attributes and properties that make it the perfect solution for a variety of marketing, design, packaging and labeling needs.









The Innovation & Marketing Summit is a production of Store Brands Decisions