Seven Apart Vineyard Takes Napa by Storm

BIG SKY PACKAGING is proud to provide high-end packaging solutions to Seven Apart, located in the heart of Napa Valley.

When it comes to California winemakers, there are few with resumés as impressive as Andy Erickson’s. Having worked with some of Napa’s most celebrated wineries including Screaming Eagle, Harlan, Ovid, Mayacamas Vineyards, Dalla Valle, and Favia to name a few, his reputation speaks for itself. Andy is a leader in Napa’s next generation of highly prized Cabernet Sauvignon.

Seven Apart’s success is all due to our two vineyards Stags Ridge and Base Camp. While Stags Ridge sits atop a peak, Base Camp thrives on the majestic valley floor where the Silverado Trail meets Soda Canyon Road in Napa.  The story of Seven Apart’s rise to the top is just as impressive.

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Cay Skincare | Winnie Harlow

SUPERMODEL WINNIE HARLOW LAUNCHED A SUN CARE BRAND CAY SKINCARE TO PROTECT YOUR SKIN.

Fashion model Winnie Harlow rose to fame after participating as a contestant in the 21st season of America’s Next Top Model. Her inspiration for Cay Skin came from her experience getting sunburn and sun damage from an outdoor photoshoot in 2018. The model entrepreneur has vitiligo, a “disease that causes loss of skin color in patches,” according to the Mayo clinic. Cay Skin’s site states that Harlow experienced a permanent change in her vitiligo after receiving the sunburn, which led to her wanting to create “better-for-you skincare and suncare protection.” The brand aims for its products to “keep all skin tones glowing and protected throughout the year.”Contact BIG SKY PACKAGING today and see how we can help build your brand.

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CIBS | Summer Luncheon 2022

When it comes to California winemakers, there are few with resumés as impressive as Andy Erickson’s. Having worked with some of Napa’s most celebrated wineries including Screaming Eagle, Harlan, Ovid, Mayacamas Vineyards, Dalla Valle, and Favia to name a few, his reputation speaks for itself. Andy is a leader in Napa’s next generation of highly prized Cabernet Sauvignon.

Seven Apart’s success is all due to our two vineyards Stags Ridge and Base Camp. While Stags Ridge sits atop a peak, Base Camp thrives on the majestic valley floor where the Silverado Trail meets Soda Canyon Road in Napa. The story of Seven Apart’s rise to the top is just as impressive.

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To make your packages stand out this holiday season, keep them simple with elegant packaging designs. Clean lines and minimalistic graphics will give your products a modern look that will stand out on store shelves. Sleek fonts and minimal embellishments will add a touch of sophistication to your packaging while still keeping it festive. Consider using a bold color scheme to make your packaging pop.

This holiday season, stand out with some of these ideas and trends:

  • Sustainability: Use eco-friendly materials and/or design your packaging to be recyclable.
  • Minimalism: Keep your designs clean and simple. Avoid using excessive amounts of paper or plastic.
  • Functionality: Make sure your packaging is easy to open and close and includes all the necessary information (ingredients, directions, etc.).
  • Personalization: Add a personal touch to your packaging with custom artwork or messages. This can help your brand differentiate from the competition.
  • Durability: Choose materials that will protect your product during shipping and handling.

BIRCHBOX | E-Commerce Boxes

E-COMMERCE SOLUTIONS FOR BIRCHBOX

BIG SKY PACKAGING understands the need for BIRCHBOX brands to deliver on their promise, and part of that packaging and brand promise is getting online orders delivered as ordered. Creating packaging and e-commerce box solutions, which hold up the products being shipped is a critical part of the direct to consumer process, one that is not over-looked by BIRCHBOX.

Customize your e-commerce solution with your brand’s custom colors, construction and responsibly sourced paper.  Enjoy the quick lead-time and low cost of BIG SKY PACKAGING.

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Real Keytones | Supplement Packaging

BIG SKY PACKAGING continues to grow in vitamin and supplement packaging!

The founders of Real Ketones, Rob Rogers and Gary Millet paved the way for the commercialization of clean ketone supplementation in 2013. Following the acquisition of the exclusive licensing rights of two key exogenous ketone patents, including one from Dr. Dominic D’Agostino through the University of South Florida.

Real Ketones has developed a seamless ketone supply chain to ensure consistent, high-quality manufacturing practices and GRAS safety qualifications. Teaming up with Compound Solutions, Inc., RK Solutions was formed to develop the GoBHB™ brand to ensure the authenticity and quality of our BHB products. During this time, Rob and Gary retained the most efficacious technologies and formulas for exclusive use, and then began the work of developing their own brand, backed by clinical studies.

Today, Real Ketones continues its quest to deliver the many benefits of ketones to people everywhere. We’ve invested millions into exogenous ketone research and clinical studies, and we’re just getting started. For example, in our most recent clinical study on weight loss and metabolic markers, it was proven that Real Ketones products significantly accelerated weight loss, fat loss, improved lean-to-fat ratio and reduced hip circumference—all while reducing normal insulin, total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol.

Both personalized stock and complete custom packaging are provided by BIG SKY PACKAGING.

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BIRCHBOX’S NEW CHAPTER

For a decade, we’ve known Birchbox as a beauty brand that delivers samples in pretty boxes. But its recent $45 million acquisition by FemTec Health, a new female-focused startup, marks a major turning point for the company.

FemTec was founded in 2020 by Kimon Angelides, a doctor who wanted to improve women’s healthcare with the help of technology like AI and genomics. It raised $38 million in funding from companies like Walgreens and Unilever Ventures at a valuation of $380 million. FemTec launched publicly in October 2021, and expects to serve women across many dimensions. It will launch Awesome Woman, a telehealth platform to help women navigate complex healthcare issues, from pregnancy to menopause, and sell a direct-to-consumer supplement brand.

To get a sense of how the brands will collaborate and weave together beauty, wellness, and technology, they shared details about their first three boxes. This week, they released a $129 Birchbox Meets Awesome Woman kit, which will be delivered in three Birchbox-style boxes. The first box will contain a skin-test tool commonly used in medical trials to help customers identify their skin type. Then, after they input data about their skin, they will receive two more boxes that contain products curated by Birchbox, along with supplements from Awesome Woman tailored to their skin.

This kit won’t replace the monthly Birchbox, but it will be marketed to Birchbox’s subscribers, as well as through Awesome Woman. Beauchamp says it’s just the tip of the iceberg, and there will be more high-tech health and beauty experiences to come.

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Trefethen | Wine Packaging for Napa Valley

Understand the role great wines can play in your life, certainly when in the Napa & Sonoma regions.  Whether it be served at a wedding, a special occasion, or a casual family dinner, you deserve a wine that inspires joy.  Wine packaging is equally as important.

Trefethen has been producing award-winning, estate-grown wines for over fifty years. Our legacy includes producing “The World’s Best Chardonnay” back in 1979 and more recently our Cabernet Sauvignon being named “Best in Show” at the 2020 Decanter World Wine Awards.

But our favorite accolades actually come from people like you who share how Trefethen wines play a special part in their family’s happiest moments.

Founders Eugene and Catherine Trefethen were ahead of their time. While terms like “sustainability” or “estate grown” were not widely used back in 1968, they understood that in order to produce world-class wines they would need a special plot of land that was treated with the utmost respect.

Today, the third generation of the Trefethen family carries on this vision. Wine lovers in search of outstanding Napa Valley wines turn to Trefethen knowing they will enjoy wines produced exclusively from our sustainably farmed estate vineyards.

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Lune+Aster | Tinted Lip Balm

Lune+Aster just launched a collection of tinted lip balms, and the story behind the name of each shade is incredibly inspiring. The brand, which was created by Bluemercury cofounder and CEO Marla Beck, partnered with six founders of women-focused organizations — Ariel Beck of Girls Who Start, Abigail Harrison of The Mars Generation, Ina Bhoopalam of Dream Equal, Valerie Weisler of The Validation Project, Haile Thomas of The HAPPY Org, and Judith Martinez of InHerShoes — to create new lip balm shades that correspond with the mission of each.

All six organizations are centered around a variety of causes, from encouraging girls to pursue careers in STEM to tackling gender inequality. The collection features buildable, vegan shades that are infused with hydrating ingredients, like vitamins C and E, and other good-for-you ingredients, like pomegranate peel and turmeric extract. Each one is meant to add a subtle pop of color to the lips, though they can also be used as multitasking products for the cheeks and eyes. Lune+Aster has also made donations to each of the organizations mentioned above.

Now about the product;

Product Details

This vegan tinted lip balm moisturizes while providing a sheer customizable flush of color for soft, smooth lips. The combination of antioxidant-rich vitamins C and E, organic pomegranate peel extract and turmeric extract helps to hydrate for nourished, supple lips.  Because Lune+Aster is committed to empowering and supporting young women, we’ve partnered with six amazing young women who have started, and continue to run, women-centric foundations. Each Tinted Lip Balm shade is inspired by the specific missions of these six women and their foundations.

Ingredients

  • Vitamins C and E help to hydrate, repair and protect.
  • Organic pomegranate peel extract moisturizes and helps neutralize free radicals.
  • Turmeric extract soothes, and helps detoxify and exfoliate.

How to Use

Swipe on lips and go! Effortlessly customize by applying once for a sheer hint of color or add layers to build a richer color.

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Global Shipping Challenges | Turn-Key Service

The pandemic has disrupted international trade, driving up the cost of shipping goods and adding a fresh challenge to the global economic recovery.

Around the planet, the pandemic has disrupted trade to an extraordinary degree, driving up the cost of shipping goods and adding a fresh challenge to the global economic recovery. The virus has thrown off the choreography of moving cargo from one continent to another.

At the center of the storm is the shipping container, the workhorse of globalization.

Americans stuck in their homes have set off a surge of orders from factories in China, much of it carried across the Pacific in containers — the metal boxes that move goods in towering stacks atop enormous vessels. As households in the United States have filled bedrooms with office furniture and basements with treadmills, the demand for shipping has outstripped the availability of containers in Asia, yielding shortages there just as the boxes pile up at American ports.

Containers that carried millions of masks to countries in Africa and South America early in the pandemic remain there, empty and uncollected, because shipping carriers have concentrated their vessels on their most popular routes — those linking North America and Europe to Asia.

And at ports where ships do call, bearing goods to unloading, they are frequently stuck for days in floating traffic jams. The pandemic and its restrictions have limited the availability of dockworkers and truck drivers, causing delays in handling cargo from Southern California to Singapore. Every container that cannot be unloaded in one place is a container that cannot be loaded somewhere else.

“I’ve never seen anything like this,” said Lars Mikael Jensen, head of Global Ocean Network at A.P. Moller-Maersk, the world’s largest shipping company. “All the links in the supply chain are stretched. The ships, the trucks, the warehouses.”

Economies around the globe are absorbing the ripple effects of the disruption on the seas. Higher costs and longer transit times are being experienced across the board. Contact BIG SKY PACKAGING today and see how we can take the day-to-day challenges of transit off your plate. Focus on building your brand, not your packaging.

INNOVATIVE | FSC ECOMMERCE PACKAGING

It’s no secret that eCommerce is quickly becoming more and more important in the success of any brand, across every industry.  The importance of getting your brand products delivered with the quality expected is specifically pinned to the eCommerce packaging used.  These durable FSC eCommerce paperboard inserts are custom-made specific for your brand needs, and more importantly shipping requirements.

Available in more than 120 stock colors, these inserts can also be custom branded to include your design element, brand story, and instruction of use, and increase brand equity.

  • Made in the USA
  • Biodegradable
  • Durable construction
  • Quick turn-around
  • Low tooling costs
  • Competitive Pricing
  • FSC paper board options
  • Reduces plastic in the waste stream!

Ship your goods with complete confidence while reducing the use of plastic tray inserts.

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