食品包裝禮盒別再跟風！找對方向，才能守住品牌競爭力

　　Don't follow the trend of food packaging gift boxes anymore! Find the right direction to maintain brand competitiveness

　　做食品行業的老板們，有個真相我必須跟大家說透，絕非危言聳聽：你投入幾十萬研發產品，砸上百萬鋪設渠道，費了九牛二虎之力把產品做好、把渠道鋪寬，可最后卻栽在了包裝上——你的食品包裝禮盒，讓客戶根本認不出來，甚至還會被消費者當成其他品牌，前期所有的投入都打了折扣。結合我們最新的市場調研，一個觸目驚心的數據的告訴我們，61%的消費者明確表示，對那些長得大同小異、跟風模仿的食品品牌，感到困惑又厭倦，根本記不住誰是誰。

　　As bosses in the food industry, there is a truth that I must tell everyone. It is not an exaggeration: you invest hundreds of thousands of yuan in product research and development, invest millions of yuan in channel construction, and put in tremendous effort to make the product good and expand the channel. However, in the end, you end up focusing on packaging - your food packaging gift boxes are unrecognizable to customers, and may even be mistaken for other brands by consumers, with all the initial investment discounted. Based on our latest market research, a shocking statistic tells us that 61% of consumers explicitly state that they are confused and tired of food brands that look similar and imitate trends, and cannot remember who is who.

　　更致命的是，超過一半的用戶，會因為一個最基礎的問題，徹底放棄對一個食品品牌的信任——那就是在包裝禮盒上，找不到生產日期。很多老板覺得，包裝禮盒只要好看、能裝產品就行，卻忽略了這些最核心的細節，也忘了跟風模仿的包裝，會給品牌帶來致命的三重信任危機，尤其是食品這類關乎健康的品類，一旦出現信任危機，很難再挽回消費者。

　　Even more deadly is that over half of the users will completely give up trust in a food brand due to a fundamental issue - the inability to find the production date on the packaging gift box. Many bosses think that as long as the packaging gift box looks good and can hold the product, it is enough, but they ignore these core details and forget to imitate the packaging, which will bring a fatal triple trust crisis to the brand, especially for health related categories such as food. Once a trust crisis occurs, it is difficult to win back consumers.

　　這三重信任危機，每一個都能讓你的品牌陷入困境。第一重是身份混淆，現在很多食品包裝禮盒跟風嚴重，你做紅色款，我也做紅色款；你印傳統花紋，我也照搬花紋，沒有任何獨特性，消費者拿起禮盒，根本分不清哪個是你的品牌，最后只能隨便選一個，或者干脆都不選，你的品牌永遠做不出辨識度。

　　Each of these three trust crises can put your brand in a difficult situation. The first issue is identity confusion. Nowadays, many food packaging gift boxes are following the trend seriously. If you make the red version, I will also make the red version; If you print traditional patterns, I will also copy the patterns without any uniqueness. When consumers pick up the gift box, they cannot distinguish which one is your brand, and in the end, they can only choose one randomly or choose none at all. Your brand will never be recognizable.

　　第二重是品質存疑，就像我們調研中發現的，連生產日期這種基礎信息都找不到，消費者會下意識覺得，你這個品牌不夠規范、不夠嚴謹，進而懷疑你家食品的品質，畢竟食品的新鮮度、保質期，是消費者最看重的東西。再加上跟風的包裝沒有任何特色，消費者會覺得你連包裝都懶得用心做，產品品質能好到哪里去，自然不會愿意買單。

　　The second issue is quality doubt, as we found in our research that even basic information such as production date cannot be found. Consumers will subconsciously feel that your brand is not standardized or rigorous enough, and thus doubt the quality of your food. After all, freshness and shelf life of food are the things that consumers value the most. In addition, the packaging that follows the trend has no distinctive features, and consumers will feel that you are too lazy to even put in the effort to make the packaging. As for how good the product quality can be, they will naturally not be willing to pay.

　　第三重是體驗背叛，很多老板為了追求包裝“高大上”，盲目跟風復雜的設計，卻忽略了消費者的使用體驗——信息雜亂無章，想找配料表、保質期要翻來覆去地找；禮盒開啟麻煩，拆開后還不好收納；過度包裝，拆開全是多余的材質，既不環保，也讓消費者覺得不實用。這種只顧跟風、不顧體驗的包裝，只會讓消費者失望，進而放棄你的品牌。

　　The third factor is experiential betrayal. Many bosses blindly follow the trend of complex designs in pursuit of high-end packaging, but ignore the user experience of consumers - information is chaotic, and they have to search for ingredient lists and shelf lives repeatedly; Opening the gift box is troublesome, and it is not easy to store even after opening; Overpackaging and unpacking are all made of excess materials, which is neither environmentally friendly nor practical for consumers. This kind of packaging that only follows the trend and ignores the experience will only disappoint consumers and lead to giving up your brand.

　　其實破局的關鍵很簡單，就是停止把食品包裝禮盒當成本，而是把它當作能持續增值的品牌視覺資產來投資。這里有兩條鐵律，各位食品老板一定要記牢，尤其是做禮盒包裝的，照著做就能避開跟風陷阱，打造自己的品牌競爭力。第一條，建立專屬品牌符號，打造品牌護城河。你的品牌色、專屬LOGO、獨特的視覺記憶點，都是你的專屬視覺產權，比如一款特產食品，用當地特色元素做專屬符號，一眼就能讓消費者記住，再也不會和其他品牌混淆。

　　The key to breaking the deadlock is actually very simple, which is to stop treating food packaging gift boxes as costs, and instead invest in them as brand visual assets that can continue to increase in value. There are two iron rules here that food bosses must remember, especially those who make gift box packaging. Following them can avoid the trap of following the trend and create their own brand competitiveness. Article 1: Establish an exclusive brand symbol and create a brand moat. Your brand color, exclusive logo, and unique visual memory points are all your exclusive visual property rights. For example, for a specialty food, using local characteristic elements as exclusive symbols can make consumers remember it at a glance and never confuse it with other brands again.？

　　第二條鐵律，實施信息分級，實現零成本溝通。食品禮盒的信息不能雜亂堆砌，要用設計邏輯按重要性排序，把生產日期、保質期、配料表這些核心信息，放在最顯眼的位置，讓消費者一眼看懂、一秒找到，大大降低他們的決策成本；再把品牌故事、產品賣點等次要信息合理布局，既不雜亂，又能傳遞品牌價值。最后提醒各位老板，模仿跟風從來都是在為競爭對手的品牌資產充值，而打造獨特的食品包裝禮盒，才是在為自己的品牌修建護城河，才能讓你的產品在眾多同類中脫穎而出，守住來之不易的客戶和市場。

　　The second iron rule is to implement information classification and achieve zero cost communication. The information of food gift boxes should not be cluttered and stacked. It should be sorted by importance using design logic, placing core information such as production date, shelf life, and ingredient list in the most prominent position, so that consumers can understand and find them at a glance, greatly reducing their decision-making costs; Reasonably layout secondary information such as brand stories and product selling points, which is not cluttered and can convey brand value. Finally, I would like to remind all bosses that imitating and following the trend is always a way to recharge the brand assets of competitors. Creating unique food packaging gift boxes is the way to build a moat for your own brand, make your products stand out among many similar products, and hold onto hard-earned customers and markets.