Wednesday, 30 July 2014

How Can Luxury Retail Packaging Help Your Brand?




These days, companies are renewing their retail packs more often than ever before. More importantly, the urge to sell with a new pack seems to play a great role in brand activity on the whole. At this day and age, advances in internet technology and social media have exposed many customers to new stuff. Consumers expect new things at all times. Instead of retaining the same package for years, many companies seem to be more precise nowadays, trying to balance the hurry to introduce new stuff and maintaining familiarity. This enhanced speed of introducing new packs makes the return on investment a subject of discussion. Although return on investment cannot be easily measured in relation to pack branding, the cost of not renewing over time will obviously surpass the cost of renewing your packaging. Here are some important ways in which luxury retail packaging can help your brand:

Differentiation

It is important to note that brands are not defined by companies, but individuals. This explains why it is becoming increasingly important to make an impression on the end users. These days, people are spoilt for choice and have little time and money. Since many companies offer similar products and services in terms of features and quality, people tend to consider the product that they want to buy based on how it is packaged. Luxury packaging can offer instant distinction and differentiation between products and brands, with the help of slogans, logos and colour themes. Packing can help potential customers to identify the brand and product among the competition. Human beings are easily attracted to luxurious or exclusive products that look unique. Luxury retail packaging makes your brand stand out.

Multisensory

If you product is able to appeal to different senses, it is likely to entice and convince a customer to make a purchase. Any product that appeals to a number of senses grabs attention and encourages interest in making a purchase. Luxury retail packaging also offers visual and physical stimulation and hence, appeals to the consumer more than plain packaging.

Attraction

How your brand is packaged can attract a potential customer to consider the product as it rests on the shelves among your competitor’s products. That’s why companies spend their time and money doing research on designs, colour themes and other aspects of retail packaging. They simply want to make the product more appealing to the potential customer than their competitor’s products. If people in the streets spot you walking with an attractive and luxurious box or bag, they are immediately stimulated and they want to buy the same product as well. They would want to take a closer look at that appealing brand.

When people are faced with so many choices of products, they start to recall, compare and relate. The brain is wired to classify the things around us and therefore, brand packaging helps them relate the product to its ad, or probably to someone who uses and adores the same product. Packaging speaks to customers and influences product and company perceptions, as they symbolise the quality of the brand and product involved. Therefore, packaging can help make your brand stand out and attract many more consumers even when your product sits among your competitor’s line of products.