Success Story Category: Temporary Displays

coffee floorstand display

United Hardware: Digital Brews Instant Success

Objective

  • Expand from hardware products to consumables with coffee being the first product
  • Drive traffic into the stores through offerings in every day consumable goods
  • Add incremental sales for their destination retailers

What we did

  • Created an inexpensive, quick assembly display
  • Manufactured on our digital press to eliminate plates and tooling
  • Designed the retail displays to be flexible for variable size, height and weight products

Results

  • Display was manufactured on our digital press and digital cutting table
  • Successful shopper marketing: the quantity of 200 units raised incremental product sales at the targeted retailer
  • Display established a regular retailer purchase stream and eventual permanent placement of the coffee product line
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Logitech: A Logical Turnkey Solution

Objective

  • Centralize and consolidate the merchandising process for packaging and display manufacturing, program assembly and retail distribution
  • Achieve cost savings throughout the supply chain
  • Improve sustainability

What we did

  • Developed a new captured blister packaging concept
  • Presented a turnkey solution that included new creative concepts, manufactured all packaging and display components, managed product and display assembly, and handled logistics

Results

  • Improved sustainability scorecard with a captured blister concept versus previous clamshell
  • Exceeded cost savings goals with a turnkey solution
  • Developed a standard packaging and pallet display platform for multiple club store environments
  • Reduced transaction costs with a single contact for all program elements
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kraft floor display

Kraft: The Easy Choice

Objective

  • Leverage the equity of the product’s can shape
  • Balance the size of the display for in store presence and total sku’s on the display
  • Increase impulse purchase incentive
  • Ensure ease of implementation and strength

What we did

  • Designed structurally sound point of purchase displays to hold over one hundred pounds of product
  • Display shipped preloaded
  • Created an iconic larger-than-life destination within the store to build brand equity
  • Created graphics that were targeted toward both adults and children

Results

  • Stimulated impulse purchases
  • Consumers easily recognized the brand and quickly shopped the display down
  • Sales figures showed double digit sales pattern compared to same product sold on shelf
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Guardian interactive display

Generac: Generating More Traffic

Objective

  • Create an in-store billboard effect around a very large and expensive floor standing unit

What We Did

  • Utilized our creative display design capabilities to develop a high-impact framework and produce aisle stopping impact
  • Provided a cost-effective solution with digital printing for a low volume requirement
  • Used our turnkey retail display solutions to outsource additional materials and fulfill packing and distribution

Results

  • Dramatic increase in sell-through with existing retailer, out-selling their competitor who has over 1000 stores
  • Customer is extremely impressed and has allowed us to increase our business
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Gatorade Peak Level Performance Display

Gatorade: Perform at Peak Level

Objective

  • Develop a simple beverage display platform that provides ease of execution at retail
  • Combine a powerful visual impact with structural integrity for easy access to product and a small footprint for health food stores
  • Customer needed displays in store in 3 weeks

What We Did

  • Created a simple one-piece column structure with a dramatic image of Usain Bolt, Olympic Gold medalist, as a billboard graphic
  • Developed a quick 1-2-3 assembly process
  • Added stark white shelves that highlight product colors and extend beyond the display to invite consumers to further investigate
  • Positioned the brand message with high visibility to quickly communicate product benefits to the serious athlete

Results

  • Our speed-to-market process resulted in design to delivery in 3 weeks
  • The G Series Pro products are selling four times the level of those that are on the shelf
  • Retailers reported that the merchandising displays have been restocked multiple times
  • The addition of the vac-formed tray has extended store life and enabled retailers to keep the display on the floor to match demand
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3M Scotch multi-tiered display

3M: File Under S for Success

Objective

  • Design a quarter-pallet display specifically for tax time, to fit into office/business retail
  • Create an identifiable structural and graphic presence that invites investigation
  • Get maximum product load in the footprint and ensure shoppability

What we did

  • Created a file cabinet theme to attract attention and enhance placement
  • Layered waterfall drawers to maximize product load and keep product highly visible and accessible
  • Engineered pillow-core door fronts with drawer glides, to encourage interaction

Results

  • The product assortment and store display placement exceeded customer sales plan
  • Overall performance was one of the best of the promotional season with double digit growth over similar quarter-pallet displays
  • Retailer wants to repeat the promotional effort and explore other opportunities
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cat litter interactive pallet display

Tidy Cats: Lift it to Believe it

Objective

  • Nestle Purina challenged us to prove to the consumer that cat litter doesn’t have to weigh a ton to get the job done
  • The mission was to demonstrate the dramatic difference in weight between the old and the new Tidy Cat products
  • Design an interactive module with retractable tethers to maintain the integrity of the store displays and reduce housekeeping

What we did

  • Developed a lift-test demonstration module that used actual product packaging (new vs. old) and invited consumers to feel the difference
  • Universal design was used in 5 retail configurations including full and half pallets; we designed custom units for Target and Pet Smart
  • Corrugated parts were direct-printed and litho-mounted, plus lock stream tube supports were used to reinforce the shelving

Results

  • The launch was one of the largest ever undertaken by Nestle Purina and enjoyed nationwide success at major retailers
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UE boom pallet display

Logitech: UE Boom WIreless Bluetooth Speaker

Objective

  • Logitech needed an interactive display for Costco to support consumer engagement and purchase of their UE BOOM Portable Bluetooth® Speaker
  • Educate consumer on use and function of the powerful UE BOOM Speaker
  • Attract the Millennial crowd with a display that is both hip and friendly

What we did

  • Developed theft deterrent captured blister product packaging, meeting a Costco initiative
  • Created pallet displays for the UE Boom Speaker and showcased the brand messaging; “Music, Wherever, Whenever, Whatever”
  • Developed a demo unit in for the center of the display, allowing shoppers to engage with the product
  • Delivered fully assembled and packed pallets, for simple execution

Results

  • Began with initial order of 650 displays and were awarded with repeat orders for replenishment pallets
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Interactive hot wheels quarter pallet display

Hot Wheels: Epic 3D Merchandiser

Objective

  • Create a dynamic 3D merchandiser that conveys the Hot Wheels spirit of excitement for car racing
  • Demonstrate an “Epic” track layout on the retail displays
  • Foster an added level of engagement by challenging Kroger employees to enter an “Epic” competition for the “best display”

What we did

  • Designed a pre-assembled litho and direct printed bin structure and easy to assemble litho mounted header components
  • Highly creative dump bin boldly utilizes the iconic orange Hot Wheels track.
  • A starter set of actual track components was included along with an activation kit, to be used for “Epic” contest
  • Store members built creative track layouts on the pallet displays and entered photos or videos in a social media contest; engaging shoppers in and out of the store.

Results

  • Huge success among Kroger shoppers and employees
  • Videos of employee contest posted on YouTube helped in-store campaign gain traction
  • Contest included consumer votes for best “Epic” track display
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garmin pallet display

Garmin Fenix® 3 HR: Club Store Challenge

Objectives:

  • Create a high-end retail experience for Garmin’s Fenix® 3 HR, a multisport training GPS watch, at Sam’s Club
  • Showcase the product while meeting club store display and packaging requirements

What we did:

  • A secure acrylic case, inspired by jewelry store displays, featured the watch and accessories included in the bundle
  • Unique product cards and trays, featuring styrene accents rounded out the premium shopper experience
  • Engineered for easy execution, store personnel only had to remove the packaging shroud, drop the pallet on the floor and slide the pallet skirt into position

Results:

  • Successful placement during the important holiday season
  • A high-end, visually impactful pallet display engaged shoppers
  • Shoppers responded exceptionally well to the presentation of this super premium offering
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