When it comes to packaging for your sporting goods product, there are some key aspects to consider — product protection, proper fit, clear branding, unboxing experience and sustainable materials. Essentially, packaging should safeguard your product during transit and serve as a marketing tool to enhance the customer experience. Great Northern Packaging has experience creating packaging solutions for well-known brands in the sporting goods market, and our designers are ready to take on your brand needs!
Choosing custom packaging options offers several benefits over standard, mass-market boxes. Great Northern Packaging can bring your creative vision to life, from creating the concept design to getting items on the shelves. For over six decades, we have seen our custom packaging transform sporting goods companies through the following advantages:
Once your product leaves your facility, it’s out of your hands and subject to unpredictable shipping and handling conditions. Custom packaging ensures your sporting goods, from fragile water bottles to heavy weightlifting equipment, are well-protected.
Your product will be surrounded by other competitors offering similar items. Use eye-catching custom packaging to draw customers to your product on the shelves. Your loyal customers will know the colors and logo to look for, and new ones can be attracted to the packaging.
Your product’s presentation is a customer’s first impression. With custom packaging, you can create an experience for them when opening your product, such as adding motivational phrases under each box flap.
In addition to your company logo and branding colors, custom packaging can add important product instructions and safety information. Putting this information on the box can exhibit transparency to customers, allowing them to be fully informed before purchasing.
Co-Packing Capabilities
Co-packing gives us the capability to pack certain configurations in-house so that you don’t need to run time-consuming operations in your facility.
Retailer Knowledge
Our targeted and promotional packaging, windowed cartons, and paper formed packaging solutions, will help your brand stand out in retail.
Print Options
All of your printing needs are housed under one roof. Enjoy a broad range of print capabilities that will meet your project scope, budget, and brand objectives.
Special Capabilities
Our targeted and promotional packaging, windowed cartons, and paper formed packaging solutions, will help your brand stand out in retail.
Inside the Box
Our expertise and in-house resources allow us to engineer effective, economical solutions to a variety of challenging problems across a wide range of industries.
ISTA Lab
In-house certified ISTA® technicians test and certify packages in our state-of-the-art ISTA 6 Test Lab to pre-determine if they are optimally designed or if design modifications are needed.
Supply Chain Optimization
We have the ability to customize supply chain programs to meet your needs and help better optimize packaging performance across your supply chain.
Our Certifications
Great Northern takes pride in the certifications that we have earned and maintained over the years. We adhere to the highest industry benchmarks to meet and exceed expectations for our customers.
Great Northern is an industry leader in the development and manufacturing of sustainable packaging. Our approach to sustainability focuses on designing every component of a product package or retail display in an environmentally responsible way, including the types and amounts of material used, the process employed in production and the methods of transport delivery. Learn more about our carbon footprint packaging and environmental efforts in our Corporate Social Responsibility report.
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Tell us a few details about your product, so we can provide a solution that works for you! Reach out to our team to start designing today.
Great Northern offers a complete retail solution for your sporting goods product! Our sporting goods displays are versatile and modern, so when you work with our team, you’ll have a product that’s unique to your business. Learn more about our sporting goods display solutions.
Sporting Goods Displays
Our team offers a range of design services for retail packaging needs to fit your business applications. We can identify your specific requirements, set specifications and develop the best solution available. We will execute your product packaging graphics, imaging and structural design needs to showcase your brand and keep items safe during shipping with responsible packaging. Whatever you envision for your packaging needs, our experienced team is here to help develop it into high-quality retail packaging solutions.
We provide valuable packaging expertise for our customers to optimize the supply chain and stand out in the retail environment.
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Work with our award-winning design team to create impressive packaging that protects your products and makes your brand stand out.
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Our solution-focused engineering teams develop functional packaging that helps our customers achieve their ROI targets.
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We keep our projects on track for success by staying within budget and meeting deadlines so you know when your packaging will be ready.
We're always available to discuss timelines, project specifications and more - reach out today to talk to our team about your packaging needs.
All of our work is completed in-house, allowing us to ensure the highest quality for everything we manufacture.
Learn MoreGreat Expectations is more than a tagline, it is an attitude. At Great Northern, customer challenges are met by an undying spirit to doing what others can’t or won’t.
It’s in our DNA. And it is what our customers have come to expect with Great Northern.
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