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Our Co-Packaging Services Series: Holiday Gift Sets
Why Use a Co-Packer for Holiday Gift Sets? Scale Without Seasonal Hiring – Holiday demand often means higher order volumes. Co-packers already have the labor, equipment, and workflows in place—so you can scale without recruiting or managing temporary staff Higher...
Many Factors Drive Demand Volatility
Demand volatility today isn’t driven by a single factor. Recalls, weather events, labor disruptions, transportation delays, or sudden shifts in consumer behavior can all create ripple effects. Winter storms like we’re currently seeing in the U.S. can stall inbound...
Decision Velocity and the Right Co-packing Partner
In today’s fast-moving supply chain landscape, traditional KPIs like throughput and OTIF tell only part of the story — what happened, not how quickly you acted when it mattered. A recent Supply Chain Brain article, highlights decision velocity as a new KPI that...
Our Co-Packaging Services Series: Club Pack Assembly
Making a Difference at the Margins Because club store customers are highly value-driven, club stores must apply pricing pressure to their vendors and the brands that they feature. With pricing pressure across the supply chain, co-packagers must carefully manage...
Our SQF Checklist
We use our SQF Checklist every day and invite you to download it for your next project as well. Wheelhouse Quality and Compliance Checklist
Our Co-Packing Series 101: Kitting and Assembly
Hiring a co-packer to handle kitting and assembly can help your organization scale quickly, cut costs and extend the capacity of your team. For years companies have been combining two or three items to make a kit or gift set for more convenient purchase or value buy....
Our Co-Packing Series 101: Pallet Displays
We use a variety of display and packaging methods at South Atlantic, ProStar, and Versatile to help our customers’ products stand out at retail. In this month’s educational feature, we’re spotlighting one of the most impactful merchandising solutions: pallet displays....
Our Co-Packaging Services Series: Flow Wrapping
Here is a closer look at flow wrapping, both Horizontal Form Fill and Seal (HFFS) and Vertical Form Fill and Seal (HFFS). Horizontal Flow Wrapping: Used for solid items/brick-style products such as trading cards, cupcake liners, pens, soap, sample mailings, food...
Our Co-Packaging Services Series: Bundle Wrap
If your team is looking for the right co-packaging option, especially for beverage projects, bundle wrapping likely is a top choice. Here’s a look at why it’s such a popular option: Pros: Visually Appealing: With printed film, the visual appeal creates a...
Our Co-Packaging Services Series: Shrink Wrap
Next-gen co-packers constantly evaluate the best options for customers, based on the project requirements and product characteristics. Shrink wrapping is a popular co-packager service choice for many global consumer brands. But not all shrink wrap is the same. In...
Our Packaging Services Series: Blister Packaging
What is Blister Packaging? Blister packaging seals a product between a cardboard backing and a clear plastic shell. It’s typically used on smaller commercial and retail goods. Blister packs feature a plastic cavity section where the product fits. A card made of...
Thanks to Our Team Members, Our Core Values are Brought to Life
We are honored to have made the Business North Carolina list as one of the state’s best workplaces. And no matter the location, each of our teams shares the same mission – and the same core values: Wow the Customer This means doing the little things – as well as the...
Five Years After The Pandemic: What’s Stayed the Same? What’s Changed? What’s Better?
Since the day we went into lockdown, several key attributes have stayed the same at South Atlantic, Versatile and Prostar Packaging. …and yet, so much has changed: Next-Gen Co-Packagers Today, our co-packaging model combines the best of the customer-focus of small...
How Are You Managing Supply Chain Chaos? Risk or Opportunity?
It’s early in the new year, but those of us in the nation’s supply chain already have felt the chaotic ripple effects hitting from every direction, ranging from weather events to geopolitics to the threats of tariffs rocking U.S. imports and exports. And because...
2024 Predictions – How’d we do?
In January, we gave six predictions for 2024. With the year coming to a close, it’s time to ask: did we get them right? Prediction one: Consumers Will Spend Less Actual: Yes, consumers have shifted buying behaviors in 2024, to include moving to private label and...
Making the Cover!
How Versatile Packagers Stays Versatile Versatile Packagers shares the keys to building long-lasting co-packing partnerships. Story by: Joseph Derr Versatile Packagers, headquartered in Tampa, is part of the Wheelhouse family, with locations in North Carolina,...
Wowing the Customers
People often ask what sets us apart from the typical co-packer. Is it our processes, certifications, systems, facilities, equipment or experience? No, we believe it’s our culture. To exemplify our culture, we have a number of expected behaviors for our team, the...
Why are we hyper-focused on private labels and store brands?
Those of us in the co-packing industry know that as more consumers are searching for price breaks at the checkout counter, private labels and store brands are growing with the economy and are booming right now for products across categories. The private label/store...