Learn From Success in the Innovation Zone
At the July 2011 Summit, sponsors and exhibitors showcased Innovation Success Stories in the Innovation Zone throughout the Summit. As an integral part of the Innovation Summit experience for attendees, the Innovation Zone was the perfect environment for progressive companies to position themselves as a source of store brands innovation.

Sponsors and Exhibitors

GROUP360 Worldwide is a full service communications firm, providing our clients with a distinct competitive advantage by helping them get their brands to market faster, with greater efficiencies and higher quality, than ever before. We compress the time it takes to get to market by offering a fully linked, end-to-end, go to market solution. From a single, dedicated source you have one strategically focused point of contact for: Strategy, Creative, Packaging, Retail Marketing, Experiential Marketing, Photography, New Media, Pre-media and Image Asset Management.


Global Tissue Group has fostered a reputation for providing value for our business partners and personal customer service to each and every one of them. We're relied upon for flexibility, confidentiality and quality, from products and services, like our specialized capabilities and custom-tailored private label paper programs. Our goal is to ensure that no matter what your needs, Global Tissue can deliver.



Clement Pappas is a leading supplier of cranberry sauces and beverages including juices, teas, and waters. We offer the stability of a family-run business. We deliver value to our customers through responsiveness, customer-focused innovation, and leadership. We build your sales and support your strategy with leading insights and services.



Crescent Manufacturing is a private brand manufacturer of laundry and household cleaning products—both standard formulas and DfE certified all natural formulas. The company was established in 1989 and is located near Buffalo, New York. Crescent maintains a superior rating with ASI Food Safety Consultants, Inc. and is an approved Topco Vendor.


EskoArtwork is a global supplier of integrated solutions for packaging, sign and display finishing, commercial printing and professional publishing. Its products and services help customers raise productivity, reduce time-to-market, lower costs and expand business.



Kaleidoscope is the integrated design realization firm that provides breakthrough brand packaging solutions that are swift and smart. Our comprehensive range of integrated capabilities and iterative design prototyping optimizes research, reduces time-to-market, and eliminates costly redundancies. From concept development to manufacturing and print, we have the creative and implementation expertise to get it done right.



Logix3 provides web-enabled services that drives speed to market, reduces cost, and improves communication. Our easy to use, cost effective solutions are designed to meet increasing demands for all types of product information. If you struggle with packaging management, new item workflows, data collaboration, or other product information challenges contact us.



MWV provides packaging solutions to many of the world’s most-admired brands in the food, beverage, healthcare, beauty and personal care, home and garden, and tobacco industries. With 17,500 employees worldwide, MWV operates in 30 countries and serves customers in more than 100 nations. For more information, please visit www.mwv.com.



Ralston Foods is the leading manufacturer of Store Brand breakfast cereals. We are committed to excellence with our Best in Class Approach through every stage of a product's lifecycle. From the quality and strategy that go into developing a product, to the packaging, innovation and marketing it takes to get a product on shelf, Ralston Foods' goal is complete satisfaction for all its customers and their consumers.



For over 50 years, Specialized Technology Resources, Inc. (STR) has been a driving force behind the development of store brands, working closely with private label retailers and manufacturers to ensure successful product launches through customized quality assurance solutions, sensory testing, and consumer studies.



WS Packaging Group offers the widest array of printing and flexible packaging across 17 manufacturing facilities in the U.S. and Mexico. For over 40 years we've produced high-quality packaging products for worldwide customers ranging in size from small businesses to large, high volume manufacturers and consumer product goods companies.



Avery Dennison brings private brands to life with innovative label and packaging solutions. Our material technologies attract attention, build brands and save costs. We can help deliver shelf impact and influence consumers’ purchase decisions at the moment of truth. Enhance your brand with Avery Dennison. Visit www.enhanceyourbrand.com.



Berlin Packaging is North America’s premier supplier of plastic, glass, and metal containers and closures. We supply billions of items annually along with package design, financing, consulting, warehousing, and logistics services for customers across all industries. Berlin Packaging brings together the best of manufacturing, distribution, and value-added service providers.



Coffee Bean International is among North America’s finest specialty coffee roasters. We offer private brand roasting and our own brands with a commitment to hand-crafted quality and sustainable practices, together with a unique partnership model designed to help clients become coffee destinations.



John B. Sanfilippo & Son, Inc. (JBSS) is one of the largest manufacturers, marketers and distributors of nuts and nut-based products in the United States. As a premier supplier of private branded snack, baking, cooking and produce nuts, JBSS is committed to quality, expertise and innovation. With over 85 years of experience, we are dedicated to supporting, promoting and growing your brand.



It began over 36 years ago with a single jar. Today, LiDestri Food & Beverage products feed more than six million people every day. The company is recognized as one of America’s premier manufacturers, known in the food industry for the highest quality Pasta Sauce & Alfredo Sauce, Salsa & Con Queso, Cooking Wines, Vinegars, Infused Oils, Specialty Syrups, Barbecue Sauces, Fresh Apple Cider, Iced Tea, Lemonade and Drink Mixers.



Condensed Natural Smoke™ and Flavors from the Kitchen™ emulate the authentic flavors of smoke, grill, roast, fried, caramelized and other savory cooking methods. Let us demonstrate, at no cost to you, how we can deliver customized, authentic, flavor solutions. Give us your flavor or business challenge.



Vitrue is the leading provider of social media publishing software, offering tools to help brands harness the marketing potential of social media. The industry-leading Vitrue Social Relationship Management (SRM) Platform is for brand marketers of all sizes, as well as agencies, to message, manage, measure and maximize interactions across Facebook and Twitter.




The Innovation & Marketing Summit is a production of Store Brands Decisions