Are you in need of new ideas for holiday packaging for your confections? Encore Intl has come up with three custom collections of unique packaging designs to inspire you! Check them out here!

See something you like? Contact us today for a quote!

​Are you serious about sustainability? Encore International is! We recently earned our FSC® Certification (FSC-C019842), increasing our commitment to sustainable and environmentally friendly practices. If you’re in the market for FSC certified packaging, Encore International can provide that for you!

​FSC stands for Forest Stewardship Council®, a non-profit organization with over 25 years of experience in sustainable forest management. This member led group works to protect forests worldwide for future generations, with a mission to promote environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world’s forests. They want to ensure that a forest can maintain wood supply while preserving its biodiversity, productivity, and ecological processes and sustaining its local people and society at large. In order to do so, they create guidelines, standards, and processes to better forest management, and provide certifications to companies that use materials from responsibly managed forests. 

​Packaging eligible for FSC certification must use materials from responsibly managed forests. Because the FSC wants to acknowledge all participating manufacturers, they provide three different labels that might be used for your packaging. The three labels are:

Your packaging might already be sustainable even without an FSC label. But if you want to be sure – and advertise your eco-friendly practices to your consumer – you’ll want to work with an FSC certified supplier. Here at Encore International, we believe it’s important to offer you sustainable options, including paper from FSC certified sources.

Ask us to quote FSC certified paper on your next project! Let us help you create your ideal eco-friendly packaging today!

Over these past few months, many of us have been sheltering in place, working from home, and watching the COVID-19 crisis unfold. Now, as state regulations permit, businesses are beginning to open again, but life is not simply returning to the old normal. Not only has this pandemic affected retail sales in the recent past, it will continue to have an effect in the foreseeable future.

Overall, store closings have set retailers back. In March, retail sales dropped 8.7%, the largest month-to-month decrease since the Census Bureau started tracking the data in 1992. But this overview doesn’t tell the whole story.

The impact seen varies greatly depending not only on the type of retail business but also whether they sell online. According to BigCommerce, Food & Beverage and Gifts & Specialty online sales are up 7.2% and 18.9% respectively, while NPD has reported that the week of March 28, 2020, online beauty sales jumped 47% year-over-year. Although alcoholic beverage sales have spiked significantly, the distribution and type of alcohol being sold has changed enough to upend the liquor industry. And consumer reactions to the pandemic also vary from one generation to the next and between men and women, adding even more flux to the situation.

In recent weeks, online versus in-store sales trends have started to slowly reverse. Stores have begun opening with precautions, but that doesn’t mean sales will automatically jump back to where they were before. As Imogen Matthews asks in Happi, “One of the big questions is where people will want to buy and from whom—is direct contact ever going to re-emerge?” Until that time, retailers will need to continue to be creative as they open locations, offering services such as buy online and pick up in store, no-contact delivery, and appointment shopping.
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Although the effects of COVID-19 have and will continue to vary, we have recovered from recessions in the past and expect to again now. The questions in everyone’s mind are, how long will it take, and will this change the shopping environment permanently?

Encore International is excited to announce that we've won two awards in the 41st Annual NJPEC Package of the Year competition!

The limited edition George & Viv 24 Days of Beauty advent calendar box we supplied for Anthropologie won the Promotional Gold award. This rigid book style box contains twenty four inner folding kraft boxes for individual product to be opened each day leading up to Christmas. Illustration style graphics with gold, blue, and fushia foil created an eye catching visual on the shelf and online.
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The coffret box we developed for Luxe Brands for Ariana Grande was awarded with the Bronze in the Gift Set category. Inspired by a holiday box Encore created, this rigid foil wrapped box has a PET window on the front panel that allows viewing not only of the various products but also a dimensional scene inside. These layers add a unique element that really stands out, making for an excellent gift and worthy of keepsake.

Spring is finally here! With the warmer weather that's starting to show, we decided this was a perfect time to share a spring mood board and showcase some spring themed packaging.

Are you looking for some spring packaging for your brand? Contact us to see how we can help you develop seasonal packaging for your product!