Best of Show—Bernard M. Seid Award
Ecolab ProForce Cleaning Products Line
Distributor: TricorBraun
These packages, composed of six components, use space efficiently with a square footprint, meet retailers' specific criteria with its palletizing pattern, and deliver convenience to users with a cleaning "kit" approach. The package holds concentrated cleaning solution and gives cleaning crews an easy way to dilute the solution into hand-held spray bottles. TricorBraun not only supplied all the package's components, they also designed the 1.25-gallon package. The load-locking nubs at the top of each container fit into corresponding indents on the package, which stabilizes the load for a caseless pallet.
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Creative Use of Stock Components
Granite City Tool HomeStone Care
Distributor: Kaufman Container
The user-friendly conditioning product package is a solid container with strong shelf-appeal. White bottles accented with red and black labels achieve an eye-catching "wow" factor. The container presentation is completed with black closures and easy-to-use sprayers, and bottles are sized for effortless handling.
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Gold—Pet & Vet
Sonoret Terro Liquid Ant Bait Station
Distributor: TricorBraun
Sonoret made it easier to use their core product of liquid ant killer outdoors with this "station." The consumer removes the optional bait station stakes, presses down the thermoformed cup, twists the cup to release the product, and places the station outdoors along the ant trail. The stakes can be used to secure the station to the ground.
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Gold—Drug & Pharmaceutical
Tyco Healthcare Oral Morphine Dosage System
Distributor: Continental Packaging Solutions
Working in conjunction with hospitals and hospices to meet FDA regulations, this package was designed to adhere to medical staff requirements in oral narcotic dosage systems. The system includes a tamper-evident system created through the proprietary neck finish of the bottle as well as the sophisticated syringe. Product can only be dispensed by inverting the package, and the graduations on bottles are measured precisely.
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Gold—General Industrial
Macco Adhesives Rhino Ultra Glue
Distributor: Kaufman Container
Rhino Ultra Glue needed to "stick" out on the market shelf overflowing in a sea of standard glue bottles. To catch consumers' eyes, a custom bottle for Rhino's 4.5- and 8.5-oz. line was developed. The bottle has a flat edge on the container's left side that embossed with the Rhino name. Shape and provide easy gripping while displaying a strong, tough appearance.
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Gold—Food
Scentsational Products Aroma Water
Distributor: Zuckerman-Honickman
Because as much as 90% of taste experience is influenced by aroma, a unique concept was developed for this bottle. While the bottle is filled with pure water, the cap is infused with orange or lemon scent so the aroma is transferred to the water as the consumer drinks through the dispenser cap. Bottle was designed to fit comfortably in consumers' hands while drinking.
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Gold—Cosmetics & Personal Care
Samy Style Ice Styling Putty
Distributor: Berlin Packaging
Samy's colorful hair care product line includes this unique styling gel package featuring three custom-molded parts—a base jar and a 2-piece assembled lid. The crisply embossed collar was post-processed with spray-coated silver to achieve the desired "ice" effect. A clear domed window provides product show through to the attractive, iridescent crystalline hair "putty."
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Gold—Household Chemical & Auto
Gold Eagle Q Quench Radiator Additive
Distributor: TricorBraun
The container's modified triangular shape is eye catching, and the razorback line of indentations make consumers want to manhandle the product into their car's radiator. The off-set, angled neck finish and the flattened part of the right bottom side of the bottle were designed so the empty bottles would go down the line on that side, rendering the neck straight up on the line.
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