This year, Progressive Grocer’s Store Brands will be holding our first-ever Store Brand Packaging Awards. We are looking for the “best of the best” in new store brand packaging — packaging that not only looks beautiful and functions well, but also does a great job in conveying the product’s message to consumers. The winning package designs will be covered in the June 2012 issue of Progressive Grocer’s Store Brands.

To be eligible for judging, the product packaging must have been introduced to retail shelves between April 1, 2011, and March 1, 2012. The packaging must be for a retailer’s store brand product or product line. Both new store brand products and existing store brand products with a new packaging design are eligible for entry.

Only North American retailers (representing the grocery/supermarket, mass merchandise, drugstore, c-store, club store and dollar store channels), packaging designers and certain wholesalers may enter products for judging. There is no fee to enter, but the deadline for entry is March 20, 2012.

For more information or to enter the contest, visit http://www.pgstorebrands.com/page-sbp_awards-152.html.