Challenge.

Unilever, one of the world’s largest consumer goods companies, tasked Aura’s packaging consultancy team with two objectives:

  • To challenge the status quo through innovative secondary packaging ideation generation. ​
  • To align its regional strategy with voluntary and industry requirements.

Solution.

Working with Unilever, our consultancy team delivered:

  • Significant reduction in secondary material usage
  • Efficiency savings as solution became modular and worked for all retail clients
  • Optimized stock inventory, moved from bespoke SRP solutions to one modular solution
  • Innovative solution led to on-shelf disruption
  • Full return on investment (ROI) proposal including capital expenditure (capex) provided to accompany concept development

Benefit.

Aura delivered one solution for all customers/retailers in line with individual shelving requirements​.

As a result, the Unilever team welcomed:

An 82% substrate reduction, compared to current solution

A 9-day improvement on distribution to store.

Impact.

The client saw a return on investment within two years of the capex investment​.