Corporate Profile - Packaging Resources/Visual Impack
Address:
1112 Montana Avenue #115
Santa Monica CA 90403
USA
Contact:
Eric Faber, Managing Partner
Phone: 310-943-9224
Fax: 310-943-9224
Email: eric@theimportanceofpackaging.com
Website: www.theimportanceofpackaging.com www.allaboutfaber.com
Today, our Packaging Resources mission is to understand all the packaging technologies, suppliers and their capabilities that have applicability to the retail and foodservice industries and, since we have no vested interest in any technology or supplier, we can objectively provide services and recommendations that are in the client’s best interest, be the client a Retailer, Foodservice Operator or Supplier.
We offer ourselves as a resource to the Retailer and Foodservice Operator’s marketing, purchasing, R&D and operations functions striving to ensure that packaging’s potential value added is thoroughly integrated into every aspect of the business.
Through our independence, packaging expertise and focus on packaging in the Retail and Foodservice industries, we are uniquely positioned to decouple packaging in a way that enables clients to identify and capture performance improvements never envisioned much less realized.
BACKGROUND
Packaging is pervasive in the Retail and Foodservice industries and impacts virtually every aspect of an Operator’s business; directly (protection, transportation, product life preservation, etc.), indirectly (space, safety, shrink, staging, in-store processing, disposal, etc.) and dual purposed (merchandising, brand reinforcement, POP, etc.).
Opportunities to utilize packaging to achieve business objectives and increase profitability are plentiful. The key is to understand the Operator’s objectives and strategies and then be skillful in translating into packaging objectives and specifications that include both the obvious direct requirements as well as the less obvious indirect requirements. The additional upside opportunities result from exploiting the fact that packaging is pervasive and utilizing it as a means to communicate messages, reinforce images and promote desirable impulses.
Packaging is very complex with many technologies producing many structures from many materials. It has taken me a lifetime of service in this industry to understand and appreciate the ever evolving packaging technologies, materials and structures that are produced to support virtually every new product concept or need. The global packaging industry is over $500 billion and over $195 billion in the U.S. alone. It is a highly fragmented industry with thousands of competitors, full of many niches and segments and requires full time vigilance to understand and keep abreast of the alternatives available for each application.
No operator can possibly be an expert in packaging or knowledgeable about all the alternatives available or comprehend all the ways in which packaging can positively impact its business. Suppliers specialize in a few technologies and therefore are not experts across the full spectrum and are focused, quite naturally, on their own vested interests. Alternatively, we focus full time on this industry and specifically on the Retail and Foodservice segments.
QUALIFICATIONS
Our experience, expertise and industry relationships enable us to understand both the operator’s and the supplier’s businesses, translate operator objectives into packaging requirements that suppliers can act upon and assist the supplier in the packaging development process.
In addition, with our independence and objectivity, we are uniquely qualified to recruit and facilitate packaging partnerships between operators and the best suppliers in order to efficiently utilize the best technologies and supplier capabilities. Principals of ours have direct experience in Retail and Foodservice as well as in manufacturing and are skilled in general management, marketing, product development, operations, engineering and sales.
For more information visit www.pakresource.com
Industries:
Aerospace
Agriculture
Automotive
Beverage
Bio-technology
Chemical
Cosmetics
Electronics
Food, Bulk
Food, Institutional
Food, Retail
Furniture
Glassware/Ceramics
Hardware
Hazardous Materials
Health/Beauty Aids
Household Chemicals
Industrial
Mail Order
Marine
Medical Device
Military
Other
Pharmaceutical
Retail Products
Textiles
Toys/Games
Transportation
Materials:
Adhesives
Aerosols
Aluminum Foil
Bags & Sacks
Barrier Materials
Blister Packaging
Bottles, Glass
Bottles, Plastic
Cans, Composite
Cans, Metal
Carded Packages
Cartons, Folding
Child-Resistant Pkging
Closures
Corrugated Containers
Crates/Boxes
Cushioning Material
Drums & Pails
Film, Co-extruded
Film, Flexible
Film, Laminated
Film, Shrink
Film, Stretch
Microwave Pkging
Molded Foam
Pallets
Paper
Paperboard
Plastics, Rigid
Pouches, F/F/S
Strapping
Tapes
Trays, Foil
Trays, Ovenable
Tubes
Processes:
Aseptic Packaging
Bar Coding
Blow Molding
Bulk Packaging
Clean Room Packaging
Converting
Handling Systems
Irradiation
Line Design
Line Integration
Machine Vision
Modified/Controlled Atmosphere Pkging
Printing
Quality Control
Retort Packaging
Robotics
Sterilized Packaging
Unitizing
Validation
Services:
Acquisitions/Divestitures
Air Freight
CAD, Graphic
CAD, Structural
Cargo Loss Control
Commercial Intelligence
Corrosion Pkging
Cushioning, Design
Damage Control
Display Pkg Design
Economics
Electro-Static Discharge
Environment
Feasibility Studies
Graphic Design
Import/Export Pkging
Machinery Design
Machinery Specification
Management
Mkt Research, Primary
Mkt Research, Secondary
Patents
Print Production
Promo Pkg Design
Regulation Issues
Shelf Life Studies
Solid Waste Issues
Statistical Process Control
Strategic Planning
Tamper Evidence
Technology Evaluation
Testing, Materials
Testing, Pkg Performance
Training
Transportation
Warehousing
This member is available as an expert witness.
