New package opens markets, unlocks greater sales potential
For years, the family-owned U.S. company had sold only fresh crab. While greatly appreciated by their regional customers, the family’s growth opportunities were limited.
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Gilpin’s focus is enabling our customers’ success. Often, customers come to us with a challenge like these: A U.S. company has an immediate need for a new package to open up new markets. A factory in Southeast Asia needs easy-open ends, but they don’t have a stable supplier. A customer needs to retrofit equipment in South America, but lacks the expertise. Gilpin welcomes challenges like these as they represent a new opportunity to satisfy a customer’s need. Here are examples of Gilpin customer successes. We hope to add your story soon.
Threatened with a canceled contract, peanut company turns to Gilpin
When a major retailer threatened to cancel a contract over a bad package, Gilpin stepped in and solved the problem and kept the peanut company in business.
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New Packaging, Technical Support, and Terms for the Seafood Industry
Gilpin was working with a major seafood company on a plastic pasteurized cup and aluminum EZO end for crab-meat and oysters.
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Too Much Capacity, Too Few Customers
Anticipating a major contract, a packaging company purchased a new press to make membrane ends and produced an inventory of 20 million ends.
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Conquering Short Deadlines
A Mexican food processor was transitioning to a new plastic cup with a retort membrane end for pasteurized seafood and promised the new package to retail customers in a month’s time.
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Gilpin Scores Industry-wide Grand Slam with Tennis Ball Package
What started as a successful solution for a global tennis ball maker is now a grand slam for Gilpin. Tennis balls are packaged in highly pressured metal or plastic cans with easy-open ends to keep the balls fresh for optimal performance. It’s a difficult package to execute—not for Gilpin.
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