A retail display has to do more than look good in a presentation. The AdArt Company turns artwork into physical objects, then tackles the packing, shipping, and installation that get them in front of shoppers.
The Hamilton packaging maker pairs design with digital printing, then goes one step further: making the corrugated sheets itself. Behind the colourful boxes is a practical bid to control quality, timing and supply.
For three decades, Godin Productions coordinated the messy work behind retail displays. Then a pandemic-era decision to manufacture in-house changed its margins, its machinery and the size of the problems it could take on.
Esko’s software lives between the designer’s screen and the supermarket shelf, where one wrong allergen, barcode or shade of red can become an expensive problem. Its answer is a connected system for designing, approving and producing packaging at industrial scale.