Oct 18, 2007

Tesco wine goes retail-ready


Tesco is rolling out retail-ready packaging across its 1,100 wines in a massive undertaking with all of its major suppliers.

The firm has completed more than half the project, working with six suppliers, including Constellation, Concha Y Toro and Thierry's.

ZGM, Raisin Social and D&D Wines have also worked with the supermarket to make good-looking, more functional packs with carry handles.

The new packaging includes country-of-origin symbols, easy-to-open panels or letterbox openings, and artwork that "mirrors" bottle label designs.

"The aim of the project was fourfold," said a Tesco spokeswoman. "We wanted to make packaging easy to recognise and easy to open, display and handle.

"In the past, wine packaging caused problems for staff: products were difficult to recognise, cases difficult to open, and presentation was unattractive and impractical."

Dan Jago, category director for beers, wines and spirits, said: "The revised packaging is more practical and effective for in-store merchandising."

Details on the cost of the project and who was paying, supermarket or suppliers, was not available.

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