5 Ways to Make Your Spirits Label Stand Out

On store shelves and online, you have seconds to capture a buyer’s attention to get them to notice your spirit bottle, pick it up, and ultimately purchase. In a market full of spirit options—both in stores and online—how do you make your spirits label stand out? Consumers, especially millennials, make a lot of their purchasing […]
When Labeling Goes Bad: The Case of the Opposite Hands

Everything was running smoothly in the run-up to launching the new drug formulation. Development of the drug finished ahead of schedule; regulatory requirements had been met; and intellectual property rights secured. Next up were the all-important clinical trials to demonstrate the efficacy of the drug.
9 Tips Before You Refresh Your Wine Brand

Need to Refresh Your Wine Brand? Here are some tips to consider from Patti Britton of Britton Design: Theme / Story First of all, is your theme or story coming across with a good impression? If not, maybe it’s time to hire a wine package designer. That designer should be able to uncover your story […]
Evolution of Clinical Trial Labels

Clinical Trial labels have evolved over time to accommodate changing clinical trial material (CTM) containers, as well as packaging and storage environments. Today’s manufacturing equipment has also opened new opportunities for complex label designs. Regulatory agencies around the world each have their own ideas around what needs to be included on a label, or what parts of the packaging need to be labeled.
5 Label Tips to Boost Your Craft Beer Brand

Boosting the power of your brand can be accomplished with simple decisions you make about your labels. Consider these five ways to get more brand power out of the labels that introduce the world to your products. We recommend choosing one or two to see what a difference they can make in attracting and keeping […]
Top 10 Common Mistakes in Label Artwork

You can save a great deal of time and money by checking your artwork before submitting it. Every day, we review many artwork files, and often discover problems that need to be addressed before we can print the labels. Avoid these mistakes, and your labeling will be much faster and more economical. To help you […]
Continuous Improvement Utilizing the Kaizen Method

All good businesses recognize the need for continuous improvement. If you don’t continually look for ways to make things better, your competitors can leave you in the dust and you can ultimately lose your customers and your business. There are many ways to analyze processes in trying to continually improve. At AWT, Kaizen (a Japanese term meaning, “Change for the Better”) has been a major method used to dissect and evaluate processes for continuous improvement and now Citation Healthcare Labels (CHL) has begun utilizing these beneficial methods.
Save Time & Money on Booklet Inventory in 2 Easy Steps

One of the biggest pain points facing Clinical Trial timelines today is the booklet labeling process. Labels are the last component needed before packaging can be completed, and there is often a late-in-the-game scramble to get booklet labels to the packager quick enough to avoid patient impact. Booklet labels can be an exasperating component.
Shorter Time to Market Is Reshaping Clinical Trial Strategy

Advances in technology over the past decade have catapulted the world forward in every aspect of our economies. The network of shared knowledge is growing exponentially and with it, new breakthroughs in drug development are constantly evolving. What has not changed however, is the 20 year patent life on new drug discoveries. As a new drug developer, you face daunting odds to bring your drug to market in a safe and just as importantly, timely manner in the eyes of the stakeholders.