Alison Vincent Associates

Alison Vincent Associates is an independent packaging consultancy with extensive up-to-date industry experience of blue-chip fast moving consumer goods retailers, manufacturers and their suppliers.

We have 6 key areas of focus:

  • Packaging innovation and development,
  • Speed-to-market,
  • Identification and delivery of effective cost reduction and sourcing strategies,
  • Establishing and optimising teams and processes,
  • Packaging specification software and palletisation utilisation software,
  • BRC-IOP Packaging Standard and Hygiene consultancy.

We hold a proven record of delivering innovations and performance improvements to the market place and have won a number of packaging innovation and merit awards. We also have a track record of delivering effective cost reductions and efficiencies.

We establish sourcing strategies for packaging materials and are adept at supplier evaluation and management. We have successfully consolidated the supply base of blue-chip organisations to deliver cost benefits and controls. We are familiar with the new BRC/IOP Packaging Standard and Alison is lead assessor qualified.

We have extensive technical and commercial experience of all packaging and print materials, processes, suppliers, supply chain and industry structure and dynamics.

Our experience spans food and non-food within retail and manufacturing, in hands-on to strategic management roles in the UK and international scope.

We work with all industry players, locally and internationally, obtaining the best from them and directing them to meet project requirements to drive initiatives to successful implementation. Naturally, we are accomplished at project management, supplier management, cost analysis and negotiation and establishing optimised teams and processes.

Alison is MBA qualified and a Member of the Institute of Packaging, as are many of our Associates. We apply expertise, skilled judgement and best practice to projects.

Alison Vincent has previously been employed by Sara Lee Household & Body Care, Safeway Stores, Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola & Schweppes Beverages, Mothercare and Lyons Tetley. Our Associates similarly have impressive pedigrees.

Key clients include:

Tesco, Safeway Stores, Marks & Spencer, The Boots Company, Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola & Schweppes, Sara Lee Household and Body Care, Diageo, William Grant & Son, Masterfoods, Campbell's, Kettle Produce, Charles Worthington, RHM Le Pain Croustillant, Mothercare, Lyons Tetley, Well Well Well - Thirsty Work Water Coolers, Aqua Service AS, Produce World, The Co-Op, The Packaging Group - Creightons - Body Shop, UCB Surface Specialties - Market Planning International, Orange Glo, Huhtamaki, Ducart, RSSL - Select QA, Cepi-Eurokraft, Alexander Watson Associates, Society of Cosmetic Scientists, Model-Tek, Product Realisation, Koike, Horners Bottlemakers, Therefore - The Novus Design Partnership, Holman Group and Valueform.

Alison Vincent Associates
Maple House
175 London Road
High Wycombe
Bucks
HP11 1BT

Tel: 01494 438372
Fax: 0870 284 3145

Web: www.AVA-packaging.com

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    We Offer: Packaging innovation and development - including project management. Identification and delivery of effective cost reduction and sourcing strategies. Speed-to-market. Establishing and optimising teams and processes. Packaging design and specification software. BRC-IOP Packaging Standard and Hygiene consultancy.

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