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Blooming Color’s Bold Approach to Retail Shelf Marking

With retail’s ever-changing landscape, you need a partner who can keep up with the ebb and flow of commerce.

At Blooming Color, one of our areas of expertise is creating retail shelf tags. For instance, one of our clients is a retail chain with 42 stores throughout the Midwest. We print thousands of shelf labels per week for each of their locations – first by dynamically merging a weekly database that matches their printed circular, and then printing, boxing, and shipping the matching shelf labels.

A few of the advantages of our retail shelf marking process are:

Digital Printing, On Demand – For your fast-paced environment, we ensure a speedy turnaround time

Ease & Efficiency – Your shelf tags are delivered in planogram order, ready to hang. This optimizes operations for your store, allowing you to hang tags quickly and easily.

Adaptability – Has the planogram changed? No problem. Our shelf tags come individually cut, instead of on a roll so that you can easily update the order.

Custom Online Portal – Maybe an additional shelf tag comes up after the original order. We can program a custom online portal that allows you to create and print shelf tags in-house on a specially designed template.

Quality of Labels – Our retail shelf tags are printed on our cutting-edge HP Indigo presses, achieving the highest quality and color consistency on the market.

Research & Development – As your needs evolve, we’ll evolve with you – and we’ll do extensive work and check-ins to ensure that process and product meets your expectations along the way.

Quality of Fulfillment – Above all, precision is our top priority. All your shelf tags are printed and boxed accurately, on-time.

At Blooming Color, we not only meet your needs – we ink the impossible. Want to know what we can do for you? Let’s exchange some numbers.

Pantone Color of the Year

Originally published by: Pantone | View Article

PANTONE 16-1546 Living Coral

An animating and life-affirming coral hue with a golden undertone that energizes and enlivens with a softer edge

Vibrant, yet mellow PANTONE 16-1546 Living Coral embraces us with warmth and nourishment to provide comfort and buoyancy in our continually shifting environment.

In reaction to the onslaught of digital technology and social media increasingly embedding into daily life, we are seeking authentic and immersive experiences that enable connection and intimacy. Sociable and spirited, the engaging nature of PANTONE 16-1546 Living Coral welcomes and encourages lighthearted activity. Symbolizing our innate need for optimism and joyful pursuits, PANTONE 16-1546 Living Coral embodies our desire for playful expression.

Representing the fusion of modern life, PANTONE Living Coral is a nurturing color that appears in our natural surroundings and at the same time, displays a lively presence within social media.

PANTONE 16-1546 Living Coral emits the desired, familiar, and energizing aspects of color found in nature. In its glorious, yet unfortunately more elusive, display beneath the sea, this vivifying and effervescent color mesmerizes the eye and mind. Lying at the center of our naturally vivid and chromatic ecosystem, PANTONE Living Coral is evocative of how coral reefs provide shelter to a diverse kaleidoscope of color.

About Pantone Color of the Year

For 20 years, Pantone’s Color of the Year has influenced product development and purchasing decisions in multiple industries, including fashion, home furnishings, and industrial design, as well as product, packaging, and graphic design.

The Color of the Year selection process requires thoughtful consideration and trend analysis. To arrive at the selection each year, Pantone’s color experts at the Pantone Color Institute comb the world looking for new color influences. This can include the entertainment industry and films in production, traveling art collections and new artists, fashion, all areas of design, popular travel destinations, as well as new lifestyles, playstyles, and socio-economic conditions. Influences may also stem from new technologies, materials, textures, and effects that impact color, relevant social media platforms and even upcoming sporting events that capture worldwide attention.

About The Pantone Color Institute

The Pantone Color Institute is the business unit within Pantone that highlights top seasonal runway colors, forecasts global color trends, and advises companies on color for product and brand visual identity. Through seasonal trend forecasts, color psychology, and color consulting, the Pantone Color Institute partners with global brands to leverage the power, psychology, and emotion of color in their design strategy.

Christy Hughes Is Building Blooming’s Future Frontier

We’re proud to welcome Christy Hughes to our dedicated team of professionals.

As Blooming’s resident Business Development expert, Christy is forging new paths through the healthcare, higher education and race management markets.

To see her in action, you’d think it’s easy. Christy’s artful approach to sales is defined by her determination.

“You make a million calls, and you’ll make one sale. It’s all worth it for the one.”

But Christy’s true talent is her peerless ability to speak to and care for clients.

“My father always said I could talk to anyone.”

Instead of a prospective customer on the other end, Christy sees a person. For her, it’s all about forming a relationship.

“I just love talking to people. Learning how people are doing business and any way we can be part of that. I have a lot of good conversations.”

It’s no surprise then that she is a family-oriented person, whose kids and husband are her life’s joy.

She has 3 little boys, who keep her incredibly active. When she’s not crushing it on the sales floor, she juggles basketball and football games, entertaining friends, and upgrading the house she bought last year.

Christy brings that same enthusiasm to her new role at Blooming Color.

“The longevity of Blooming is truly inspiring. They’ve not only adapted with the industry: they have literally changed the industry at every step. After 30 years they’re still growing at a rapid pace.”

That pace will be even quicker with Christy Hughes on board.

“With the new acquisition of the HP Indigo 12000, I see us continuing to expand into new markets,” she envisions. “We have a taste for new business and footholds in untapped markets, so we’re going to lean into and saturate those new frontiers. Blooming Color can do the impossible.”