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2017 Spring Color Inspiration for Your Confection Packaging

by Amanda Nugent April 10, 2017

Tradition and brand consistency are critical, but your visual merchandising colors don’t always have to be the same every spring. What color is more indicative of the excitement of something new than green? Pantone is right on key, so much that they named “Greenery” the 2017 Color of the Year.

Tap Packaging Wins 2017 HP Inkspiration Award for Digital Folding Cartons — Second Year in a Row

by Tap Marketing April 02, 2017

Cleveland-based packaging manufacturer Tap Packaging Solutions was the recipient of the 2017 HP Inkspiration Awards for the Americas for its exceptional use of digital print technology in the folding carton market.

Case Study: EPIC Foods (Austin, TX)

by Amanda Nugent March 09, 2017

Taylor Collins, cofounder of EPIC Foods, wasn’t afraid to break the status quo in the health bar market — or in the packaging design realm, either.

Tap Packaging Announces Katy Kvassay as Senior Customer Account Specialist

by Tap Marketing February 15, 2017

Cleveland-based paperboard packaging manufacturer Tap Packaging Solutions announced Katy Kvassay joined the Corporate Communications Department as Senior Customer Account Specialist.

Tap Packaging Recognized with 10 Print Excellence Awards, “People’s Choice” Award, and Best of Northern Region from PIANKO

by Amanda Nugent February 15, 2017

Cleveland-based packaging manufacturer Tap Packaging Solutions is proud to announce that it has received 10 awards in the 2017 PIANKO (Printing Industries of Ohio and Northern Kentucky) Print Excellence competition

Malley’s Chocolates — Merchandising with Digitally Printed Custom Packaging at the Republican National Convention

by Tap Marketing February 13, 2017

Summer 2016 was tremendous for Northeast Ohio.

When Northeast Ohio businesses heard that this once-in-a-lifetime major merchandising opportunity was coming to them, they were ready to seize the day. Owner of Cleveland icon Malley’s Chocolates, Mike Malley, called up its nationally renown packaging manufacturer Tap Packaging Solutions to leverage this fleeting target marketing job.

VIDEO INTERVIEWS: packagePRINTING Magazine talks to Tap’s design manager Jaime Wilhelm about consumer brand packaging production

by Tap Marketing January 02, 2017

The Jack Daniel’s corrugated carton and Fleurir Chocolates folding carton set were award-winners in packagePRINTING Magazine’s 2016 Excellence Awards — Jack Daniel’s taking the Offset Corrugated category, and Fleurir Chocolates winning the category for Digitally Printed Folding Cartons.

Watch the interviews below and learn how Tap’s design team tackled the challenges for each client and turned out successful brand packaging.

Tap Packaging Solutions Achieves ISO 9001:2008 with Design Certification

by Tap Marketing December 27, 2016

Cleveland-based packaging manufacturer Tap Packaging Solutions is proud to announce it has again achieved ISO 9001:2008 with Design Certification.

Tap’s Top 5 Best Sellers in Stock Confection Packaging (2016)

by Tap Marketing December 06, 2016

Did you follow the packaging trends this past year, or were you a bit of a product marketing and merchandising trail blazer? Before we start counting down the seconds to the ball drop, we’re recounting our most popular confection boxes. See what the stats say and peruse the confection packaging “people’s choice.”

Recap of Tap’s 2016 Packaging and Printing Awards

by Amanda Stein December 01, 2016

As 2016 is drawing to a close, Tap Packaging Solutions is excited to highlight some of the packaging and printing awards it received this past year!

Tap’s Top 4 Merchandising Strategies for Displaying Your Holiday Sweets

by Tap Marketing November 07, 2016

If you run a storefront, having a creative visual merchandising strategy is key to get your customers excited about your brand for the holidays. The best way to do this is by deriving fun, surprising ways to place your packaged product within your winter wonderland in the sea of twinkling lights and tinsel.

Case Study: Chocolate Chocolate Chocolate (St. Louis, Missouri)

by Amanda Nugent November 04, 2016

Dan Abel Jr. speaks of his family-owned business, “Chocolate Chocolate Chocolate”