Potts Partnership, launched by husband and wife combo Owen and Michelle Potts in 2007 in the kitchen of the family’s Marlborough home, has won a DBA Design Effectiveness Award for its sustainable packaging, which has been so successful, it’s opened up opportunities to develop further cooking products in cans and the business has grown from 10 to 25 staff to meet demand.
Engaged to deliver a pack solution which would impact on plastic usage, London-based design agency This Way Up’s redesign of Potts’ stocks’ packaging was launched in 500ml standard drinks cans. Leveraging simplicity, bold use of colour and illustration, the Stocks in Cans design solution emphasises the stocks’ taste credentials, as well as the 100% recyclable drinks can format.
By amplifying food value, appetite appeal and recyclability, 250,000 cans were sold in the 12 months after launch. 311 per cent more than the 80,190 pouches purchased the previous year.
The design opened up listings in Tesco, which grew from 400 to 700 stores within a year. Potts’ rate of sale also accelerated from four units of stock per week, to nine, while across the year 1.3 tonnes of plastic waste was saved.
