Whether you're launching a new product or elevating an existing brand, we help CPG brands connect with shoppers at every critical moment.
Explore our core service areas to see how we can help you win at retail.
Brand Foundations
Building brands that matter
Branding • Identity • Packaging
Phoenix was built on building brands with a simple belief: brands need to work where they live — on shelves, in restaurants, and in busy retail spaces where you have just a few seconds to make an impression and clarify differentiation.
When we build a brand identity, we don’t just design a logo and move on. We create systems that show up consistently everywhere — on packaging, POP, digital retail, and QSR — without feeling disconnected. Simple rules. Clear hierarchy. Distinctive visual assets. Repeatable visual DNA that makes it easier for teams to stay consistent across dozens (or hundreds) of touchpoints as the brand grows.
Packaging is where everything really gets tested. It has to win in a two-second scan, feel cohesive across a product line, and still follow brand standards. Whether it’s a new SKU, a refresh, or a full line architecture, we look at it the way shoppers do — from a distance, in a crowded aisle, or on a phone screen. We also think about how it connects to photography, merchandising, and promotional moments so everything works together in the real world.
The goal is simple: branding and packaging that feel strong, clear, and easy to build on so teams can move faster with confidence.
Brand Foundations
When Shoppers Become Buyers
Shopper Strategy • POP/In-Store Experience • OSR Support
At Phoenix, we live for the moment a business’ goals and shopper’s decision to act align. Every project starts with a clear goal — maybe it’s driving trial, increasing basket size, or boosting sales velocity — and then we figure out what needs to happen at the point of decision.
That decision might happen at the shelf, in the aisle, at the pump, on a menu board, or on a screen. Because we’re close to execution, we build strategies that are practical and usable. We connect the insight to the hook, the hook to the message, and the message to the call-to-action — always keeping in mind retailer requirements, timelines, and real-world constraints.
POP and in-store work is where strategy becomes visible. We design with reality in mind: cluttered shelves, fluorescent lighting, competitive noise, and the quick glance from six to ten feet away. We prioritize clarity, readability, and a two-second takeaway so the main message lands fast. Across windows, endcaps, coolers, counters, pumps, aisles, and screens, we make sure everything feels as seamlessly connected as it is easily deployable.
In QSR, we understand the pace — frequent changeovers, LTOs, franchise consistency, tight turnarounds. The work has to look craveable, but it also has to communicate quickly across drive-thru, in-store, and digital ordering.
In the end, it’s about making the experience smoother and helping customers make that decision a little faster, a little easier, and a little more often.
Brand Foundations
Tools That Close Deals
Internal Sell-In Materials • Collateral
Before a program can win in the market, it has to win “in the room.”
Careers depend on programs’ success. Brand managers, retail partners, merchandisers, and category managers all need to feel confident about a program before giving their approval and championing its cause. That’s why we treat sell-in and collateral materials as critical performance tools.
We craft internal sell-in materials that tell a clear story with strong proof points, compelling channel logic and engaging visuals that make programs feel real and translate strategy into retail reality. We outline the opportunity, explain the shopper benefit, show the retailer value, and make the execution feel real. The result is quick and easy alignment allowing teams to walk into meetings with confidence.
Collateral supports the moments around retail: sales team support, field execution, product education, and unique asset development. From sell sheets and one-pagers to training guides, trade show assets, apparel, and custom POP, we create tools that are practical, on-brand, and easy to understand.
Best of all, we build assets with modular structures and consistent visual systems so updates are easy and teams aren’t reinventing the wheel every time something changes. They’re clear, useful, and ready to use.
Retail moves fast, and Phonenix is built to keep up.
We bring ideas to life at retail pace – fast, consistent, and built to scale. The content we create is designed to stop the scroll, clarify the offer, and drive action using proven, channel-specific methods from retail media and social platforms to email and in-store screens. We grab attention, explain the offer, and drive action. Quickly. We build templates and modular components and usage rules so campaigns can roll out smoothly across different sizes, formats, and placements even across long campaign windows and frequent refresh cycles without losing consistency. The result? Momentum without the mess and content that stays coherent as it multiplies across placements, specs and formats.
Photography and video bring credibility to the message. We focus on clean, craveable visuals and useful, modular components that can be reused across packaging, POP, digital retail, and QSR. With our on-site studio and prep kitchen, we can keep lighting, styling, and angles consistent — and build content libraries that reduce reshoots and make future updates faster and more cost-effective.
Asset extrapolation is simply making sure campaigns translate well everywhere they need to go — different sizes, versions, languages, or compliance needs — while maintaining the message hierarchy, readability and the two-second takeaway.
And when timing gets tight, we move quickly. Late-breaking promotions, operational changes, regional tests — we rely on established guardrails so speed doesn’t compromise quality.
The result is high-volume output that stays on-brand, on-strategy and ready for real-world retail so teams can move quickly, launch confidently, and keep the work performing everywhere it lands.