CONTRACT PACKAGING
Crescent provides traditional and turnkey contract packaging services to the Food and Beverage, Health and Beauty, Personal Care, and Household Goods market sectors.
Leveraging its continuous improvement culture and operations diversity, Crescent is focused on meeting it's customers' needs and on growing it's embedded, dedicated, and multi-customer contract packaging operations.
Our Contract Packaging Services
At Crescent, we understand our customers have a strategic goal to grow their business. This demand for growth leads them to strategically embrace outsourcing to establish a competitive advantage. We offer comprehensive contract packaging solutions designed to grow our customers’ business, streamline their overall supply chain, and strengthen their competitive advantage. When mutually aligned, our Best Value Solutions are more productive, more innovative, and more cost effective than our customer’s internal resources, allowing our customer to focus their time and energy on growing their core business.
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Core Capabilities and Competencies:
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Inventory Control and Management
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Product Lot Control and Traceability
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Quality Control and Assurance
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OTC Drug Repackaging and Relabeling
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EDI/API Integration with Customer SAP
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Turnkey Project Execution Management
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Sustainable Packaging Sourcing
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POP Display Design and Sourcing
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cGMP and Regulatory Compliance
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POP Display Assembly
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Horizontal and Vertical Auto Cartoning
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Blister Packing – Paper and Plastic
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Shrink Wrapping and Sleeving
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Flow Wrapping on Printed and Clear Film
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Full and Collaborative Robotic Assembly
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Ecommerce Packaging and Fulfillment
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Flexible Storage Solutions
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Direct to Retail Distribution
Our Performance and Results
At Crescent, our commitment to operational excellence in contract packaging is reflected in our industry-leading performance metrics. We prioritize accuracy, efficiency, and reliability to ensure that our customers' supply chains operate seamlessly and remain disruption free.
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Quality Control: Crescent’s service delivery is aligned with our customers’ needs through quality management, continuous improvement, and regulatory compliance. Our systems and methods achieve compliance by minimizing/eliminating risk to failures, defects, and inefficiencies.
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Inventory Management: Our inventory systems ensure that products and materials are always available exactly when and where they are needed. With near flawless accuracy rates, we minimize supply chain disruptions and keep your operations running smoothly and efficiently.
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Schedule Attainment: We optimize all of our resources and measure our progress along the way to ensure we meet or exceed schedule adherence dates. We develop the right plan, enable the right engagement, and provide the right capability to meet customers’ scheduling demands.
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On Time Delivery: Our unwavering commitment to on-time performance ensures promotional executions ship on time every time, ensuring your goods deliver when your retail customers and consumers expect them.
These metrics are a testament to our dedication to providing unparalleled service and reliability to our customers, making Crescent a trusted partner in managing your contract packaging requirements.
99.93%
Process Accuracy
Quality audit results from 7 Operations across 100+ production lines
up to 3 shifts
99.89%
Inventory Unit Accuracy
Network-wide, 757k+ Pallets /9.1M +Cases/ 468M + Units
99.81%
Schedule Adherence
26k+ Production Jobs
99.90%
On Time Delivery
18k+ Annual Shipments
Innovation for a New Sales Channel
Revolutionizing Club Store Packaging
Success Story
Like many Consumer Goods Customers, they were faced a significant challenge: supporting the rapidly growing Club Store channel with a fragmented co-packing and distribution supply chain. The new channel required unique packaging solutions and a streamlined distribution strategy, which neither company’s existing infrastructure could efficiently provide.
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Challenge:
The customer struggled with a fragmented supply chain, long lead times, excessive inventory, and costly LTL shipments to service the emerging Club Store market. New product introductions took 4 to 6 months, hindering their ability to keep pace with the channel's growth.
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Action:
To address this, we established three strategic co-packing and distribution facilities, including one in Cincinnati, Ohio, which managed over 55% of the national club store volume. These facilities consolidated the entire supply chain process—from design and materials sourcing to assembly and direct-to-store shipping. The Cincinnati facility, which expanded to 500,000 square feet and 20 production lines, played a crucial role in reducing lead times and streamlining operations.
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Impact:
The centralized operation drastically reduced new product introduction times from 4-6 months to just 4-6 weeks. Base finished goods inventory was cut by 50%, and obsolete materials were reduced to less than 2%. By managing transportation and customer orders, Crescent enabled “build to order” production for over 85% of the co-packed volume. At its peak, the Cincinnati facility operated 3 shifts, 6 days a week, shipping over 750,000 pallets annually.
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This 14-year partnership laid a strong foundation for Crescent’s end-to-end co-packing and distribution solutions, setting the standard for efficiently servicing the ever-changing demands of the Club Store channel.
Where quality and performance drive operational excellence!
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“Thank you for the update from the audit. I had no doubt the audit would be just fine. The recent production capacity challenges at year end were nerve wrecking for me and yet had no impact on our requirements. Everyone right up to the President/CEO rolled up their sleeves and got the jobs done! Your honesty in this business relationship over the past 2 years has enabled us to grow together very nicely in the Promotional area. I look forward to another successful year of display programs.”
What Our Customers Are Saying
“I want to let you know how appreciative we are of your after-hours support! Our facility in WI is going through their SQF audit and was asked to conduct a lot trace of product that was shipped to Crescent for repack. As you know, these traces are timed and with your swift response, we were able to complete the trace very quickly. Thank you so much for jumping into action. We are very happy to work with such a great organization and wonderful people!”
"The teams have heard me say this before, but 2020 was the most challenging I’ve seen in my career.  Crescent navigated the unknown and didn’t miss a beat … in fact the numbers show we actually improved.  My hat is off to this leadership team for making it happen.  Thanks for all you’ve done!”
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With over 175 years of service excellence, Crescent's unwavering commitment to its values and vision, along with a highly engaged leadership team, has forged long-term, sustainable partnerships with key customers across the US and Canada.
9817 Crescent Park Drive
West Chester, Ohio 45069
513-759-7000
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