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"Sorensen directly helped us determine which package had the greatest appeal to Wal*Mart and Kmart shoppers."
- Research Director, Kimberly Clark

Packaging

Sorensen Associates has done hundreds of package research studies to determine shelf impact, "findability" and the ability of packaging to communicate the brand messages. By evaluating packaging on real store shelves and/or in-home, we have found what works and what doesn't before costly mistakes are made. Testing packaging in-store can also reveal how your package performs under poor lighting, crowding, mishandling, and against competing brands.

Concept Testing narrows package concepts to the best choice by evaluating shelf impact, persuasion, brand imagery, package appeal and functionality.

Package Benchmarking measures if a package needs a redesign, how it fares against the competition and what changes are necessary, including shelf impact, communication, appeal and functionality.

Shelf Impact Packaging Appeal Up-to-Date Appearance Findability
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Visual Equity provides the design team a quantitative assessment of brand elements, such as shape, color, logos, and bursts.

Bottle A Bottle B Bottle C Bottle D Bottle E
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Which of these bottles is the Kahlúa bottle?

PathTracker

Fresh from the Source:

Packaging Test Case Study Includes an Interview with Senior VP, Client Services - James Sorensen

In POP, Pictures Worth a Thousand Purchases Marketing News, November 1999, by William J. Hruby and James Sorensen

Ensure Your Package Survives the Real World, considerations to ensure your package survives distribution and the store shelf.

Create a Tie-Breaker With Packaging BrandPackaging, Fall 1997, by Robert E. Stevens

Sorensen Associates Quality The challenges and solutions to conducting quality in-store research.

A Statistical Approach to Security Quirk's Marketing Research Review, March 2000, by Herb Sorensen

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