we make your brands more immune to retail competition
we fulfil your product innovation funnel smartly
we make your brands healthier in every shop environment
we create FMCG product innovations faster
we make your brands more immune to retail competition
we fulfil your product innovation funnel smartly
we make your brands healthier in every shop environment
we create FMCG product innovations faster
How do we do it?
Diagnostics
Discover our 7 brand investigation tools that are cutting-edge solutions in retail performance analysis. Let us lead you to successfully addressing all the invisible retail issues, such as: packaging standout, in-shop exposition, product innovation funnel or future portfolio planning. We will foster your brand growth and make your product win on shelves – fast, cost-efficiently, exceeding your expectations.
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Knowledge
The true quality comes from experience and ethics. Our company was founded in London, in 1972, and as such is the longest operating branding agency in Europe. Our KPIs are the proof of our high standards. They confirm our steady and outstanding performance. That is why we are a pitch-free zone.
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Work
We create smart design that evokes high purchase intent. Our propositions definitely win over competitors’ designs in terms of on-shelf standout. We push brands to sales growth by all manner and means.
See few examples here. Need more? Contact us directly to select more from few thousands of projects completed so far.
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Design Services
Our design services offer strategic focus on 360-degree packaging challenges. We investigate your supply chain inside out. We don’t deliver empty brand vision promises, or “strategy bullshit”. We only provide down-to-earth and effective solutions, supported by our Integrated DesignTM approach. Follow our forward-thinking attitude, arm in arm with the CEO and senior brand owners. How could we help your brand?
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Locations
We have worked on dozens of markets on 3 continents: from South Africa and Congo, through the Middle East, to the independent post-Soviet countries, the economically-advanced Western Europe states and the ever-growing markets of Central Europe.
Our intellectual and operational agility can cost-efficiently turn brand and packaging design into commercial success on any market.
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Sustainability
Together with our Greenovation™ Centre in Germany we help brands go through eco‑transformation and reach a sustainable packaging supply chain. We can’t promise you the “hurrah” effect, instead we deliver the uber‑rational and technically-responsible adaptations, focusing on a thorough overall view. How we could help your brand?
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Diagnostics
Discover our 7 brand investigation tools that are cutting-edge solutions in retail performance analysis. See our Diagnostics for Brand Growth:
Design Audit ™
No research company can provide more accurate results than Design Audit™. The tool converts visible and concealed exposure issues into a specific corrective plan, taking into consideration category management, trade marketing and brand communication.
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NPD Ideation ™
It accelerates the joint efforts of the Marketing, Trade, Insights, Supply Chain and R&D teams and facilitates a coherent new product proposition, avoiding the traditional, linear processes. Ask us about the Wow Factor!
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Syncretics ™ Workshop
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Shopper Inspector ™
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Design Talks ™
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Visual Planning™
Visual Planning™ improves the efficiency of complex portfolio management and provides a strategic “helicopter view” on the current and future product ranges.
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Opportunity Mapping ™
It helps materialise, visualise, structure and plan initial visions and create a product portfolio strategy, using the techniques comprehensive to employees from different departments and specialists from various fields.
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Knowledge
The true quality comes from experience and ethics. Our company was founded in London, in 1972, and as such is the longest operating branding agency in Europe. Our KPIs are the proof of our high standards. They confirm our steady and outstanding performance. That is why we are a pitch-free zone.
Work
We create smart design that evokes high purchase intent. Our propositions definitely win over competitors’ designs in terms of on-shelf standout. We push brands to sales growth by all manner and means.
See few examples here. Need more? Contact us directly to select more from few thousands of projects completed so far.
Design Services
Our design services offer strategic focus on 360-degree packaging challenges. We investigate your supply chain inside out. We don’t deliver empty brand vision promises, or “strategy bullshit”. We only provide down-to-earth and effective solutions, supported by our Integrated DesignTM approach. Follow our forward-thinking attitude, arm in arm with the CEO and senior brand owners. How could we help your brand?
Locations
We have worked on dozens of markets on 3 continents: from South Africa and Congo, through the Middle East, to the independent post-Soviet countries, the economically-advanced Western Europe states and the ever-growing markets of Central Europe.
Our intellectual and operational agility can cost-efficiently turn brand and packaging design into commercial success on any market.
Sustainability
Together with our Greenovation™ Centre in Germany we help brands go through eco‑transformation and reach a sustainable packaging supply chain. We can’t promise you the “hurrah” effect, instead we deliver the uber‑rational and technically-responsible adaptations, focusing on a thorough overall view. How we could help your brand?
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Knowledge
1
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years
of branding and retail experience
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branded packaging
we have created
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markets
our projects have been launched on
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brands
international and local brands we have been working for
We are here
Founded in London in 1972, we are global creative partner at Gundlach Holding, a sustainable packaging services group, established in Germany 175 years ago.Founded in London in 1972, we are global creative partner at Gundlach Holding, a sustainable packaging services group, established in Germany 175 years ago.
Warsaw
is where we run
our operations from
London
is where we were
founded in 1972
Dubai
is where we have client service and production allies
Bielefeld
is where we located
our sustainability centre
Zurich
is where we cooperate
with a sales partner
Our diagnostics for brand growth
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Design AuditTM
evaluates a category in-store exposition and brand packaging from the customer’s perspective. It helps assess the current situation of your products’ portfolio – it identifies strengths and weaknesses of branding and packaging design. This merciless audit delivers thorough analysis of your product’s in-shop brand standout.
No research company can provide more accurate results than Design Audit™. The tool converts visible and concealed exposure issues into a specific corrective plan, taking into consideration category management, trade marketing and brand communication.
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NPD IdeationTM
is the tool that outsources your company’s product innovations. It helps create the innovation funnel, providing fresh and insightful new product ideas. The service is based on our own unique methodology, applicable to all FMCG categories and most of the markets.
It accelerates the joint efforts of the Marketing, Trade, Insights, Supply Chain and R&D teams and facilitates a coherent new product proposition, avoiding the traditional, linear processes. Ask us about the Wow Factor!
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Contact us!
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SyncreticsTM Workshop
is a strategic workshop designed to create uniform solutions. It eliminates the “I-wasn’t-there” mindset. The tool makes it possible to combine contradictory beliefs and develop a joint plan, disregarding the classic, linear methods.
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Shopper InspectorTM
brings together qualitative assessment of the difficult to measure promotional expositions features, in-shop stands, secondary packaging and all other in-retail brand activations. Our experts assess and quantify in-shop expositions according to the 6 Core Effectiveness Factors.
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Design TalksTM
is a modular seminar on the role of the design in a marketing mix. It inspires brand owners to innovate their products and helps create more efficient packaging design projects. The tool discloses design tricks to non-designers and teaches clients how to demand more from agencies. Design Talks™ requires zero theory, it’s all pure practise.
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Visual PlanningTM
focuses on brand architecture, re‑positioning and restructuring of assortment. It helps stakeholders reach an agreement through visualisation of their assumptions and conceptions regarding the product portfolio structure, especially the taxonomy of subsegments and product variants.
Visual Planning™ improves the efficiency of complex portfolio management and provides a strategic “helicopter view” on the current and future product ranges.
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Opportunity MappingTM
focuses on developing future assortments basing on global consumer trends. It delivers a road map for long-term brand development and delves into the areas that are typically under the marketers’ and CEO’s radars, but also aims far beyond…
It helps materialise, visualise, structure and plan initial visions and create a product portfolio strategy, using the techniques comprehensive to employees from different departments and specialists from various fields.
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Work
TropicanaPepsiCo
RaffaelloFerrero Europe
Carlsberg ExportCarlsberg UK
AhavaDead Sea Laboratories
DunhillBAT Global
FrugoFoodcare
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Slawek Kluziak
(스와벡 클루쟉)
CEO | Global Branding Director
EU: +48 604 499 950
UK: +44 7408 853 474
E: slawek.kluziak@sieberthead.com
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Krzysztof Przykorski
(크쉬스토프 프쉬코르스키)
Chief Operating Officer
EU: +48 602 747 800
E: krzysztof.przykorski@sieberthead.com
Packaging innovations
Product innovation, new product development and packaging innovation in the food industry: what’s the difference and when do marketers need them?
With many industries being disrupted and influenced by dynamic startups, innovation isn’t just a fad or even a source of advantage anymore. Moreover, these changes aren’t restricted to industries traditionally focused on R&D, such as automotive or pharmaceutical, or born out of innovation like IT. Product innovation, new product development and packaging innovation, pioneered by the likes of Apple, Google and Tesla, are now a necessity also for food and beverage brands. But what’s really the difference and when you should consider them? Let’s stick to the example of the food industry and explore the landscape of innovation on this ground.
Food product innovation
While food product innovation is an exciting avenue, it’s perhaps the most challenging approach to developing a new product concept. A food product idea is innovative if it involves the use of new or unknown processes the configuration of which can’t be easily replicated by other businesses. In the food industry, product innovation also means that new and unknown ingredients will be used and other businesses can’t access them with ease. As a result, food product ideas require a lot of up-front new product ideation (that is a blank-page approach to creating the product) as well as frequent prototyping combined with insight marketing. In the food industry, this means creating sometimes surprising products from scratch, and testing them with consumers on a regular basis. Food product innovation can help when brands need exciting, new products to sustain their advantage or when they want to enter new markets or segments.
New product development in the food industry
In fact, what happens most often in the food industry is new product development, that is portfolio line extension by creating variations on existing food products. This means that NPDrelies on using existing processes and ingredients with slight modifications. In the food industry, new product development can be equated to adding a new flavour to an existing portfolio line. Of course, some prototyping may also be required, but the need to trial and test food product ideas with NPD is far less intensive than with product innovation. New product development in the food industry works best for marketers with have good, solid portfolio lines that perform well and could be further extended with successful variations.
Food packaging innovation
Innovations in packaging have traditionally been associated with packaging producers driving innovations in the supply chain. However, with the role of food and beverage packaging changing and moving away from just preserving, protecting and dispensing products, also packaging innovation is changing in nature. Today, food packaging innovation means additional performance characteristics, such as increasing sustainability through the use of recyclable materials, or individualisation of pack design. Packaging innovation can be used for example to develop new sales channels for traditional products, for example by presenting the same beverage brand in different packaging as a health drink, an infused water beverage, and a protein drink.