Brand Security & Authenticity Solutions
Every winery is respected for its essential characteristics and valued brand names. Have you taken the essential steps to ensure that the integrity of your wine and brand is protected?
There is growing evidence that brand protection and authenticity is a major concern for wineries. Recent articles in the Wine Spectator and elsewhere suggest wine fraud in the United States may be following the dangerous fraudulent trends in Asia and Europe.
Prestige Graphics can secure your labels and protect your brand through a combination of covert and overt layered measures that allow for authentication of your wine while maintaining the same high quality labels and brand presentation.
We have been producing the highest quality labels since 1975 and wine labels since 1988. We employ every press, process, graphics and production capability required to produce your labels to the same high standard. Our focus is to produce the finest quality wine labels with guaranteed quality and excellent cost structures.
Let us review your wine labels and security concerns/issues and allow us to propose authenticity and security options that will work best for you and your brand.
Prestige Graphics’ Brand Security Work Plan
- Sign a letter of confidentiality to keep any discussions and proposals private
- Obtain current label samples, art/graphic files, run lengths and cost structure
- Review issues and concerns while working on proposed solutions and economics
- Propose and demonstrate layered security measures to assure authenticity
- Produce exact prototypes for further testing and evaluation
- Produce fully protected labels that are the same as your current labels.
PGI will protect your brand with three security solution sets. Authenticity Protection, Tamper Evidence and Track and Trace Solutions.
Authenticity Protection
Piracy and counterfeiting are growing realities of modern commerce. Our clients now have the best solutions available to stop fraudulent sellers.
- Color Shifting Ink
Changes color depending on the viewing angle, producing unique chromatic effects. Works very well with digital print systems - Embedded Security Stripe
Created with the same printer used for our currency they embed thermocromatic, holographic and fluorescing code options for maximum protection. - Holography
Create 2D & 3D effects on special presses with different formats and custom images with fore and aft background images. - IR Additives
Infrared additives react to specific wavelengths that are machine or light source readable. Very hard to detect and almost impossible to duplicate. - Microtext
Microscopic font sizes in embedded patterns and codes that smoothly integrate into your label design graphics that are very hard to scan. - Thermo-chromatic Inks
Ink solutions that change colors when a set temperature is reached. Cannot be scanned or duplicated easily. - UV Additives
Ultraviolet additives are invisible to the naked eye yet react to UV lights for authentication purposes. Can also contain custom embedded messages and branding logos.
Tamper Evidence
Prestige Graphics combines a variety of leading technologies to produce tamper-evident solutions for every wine labeling application. From our secure facility to our innovative designs, we provide new answers to brand and wine labeling protection.
- Optical Thin Films
Anodized aluminum in multilayered constructions that once the outer layer is fractured, a second layer of information is revealed exposing tampering. Ideal for bottle caps as well. - Tamper Evident Adhesives
Any attempt to remove will trigger a previously invisible feature leaving indisputable evidence of tampering. - Wet Check/Water Indicating Ink
Any contact with moisture or water can be reliably detected and can be invisible or visible in its dry state.
Track and Trace
Prestige Graphic’s track and trace technology protects products across the entire value chain – from bottling to intermediate wholesalers to final delivery, know your products exact location at all times.
- Identify the location of every single product at any point in time
- Helps eliminate in-house security gaps, pilferage, illegal re-imports or overproduction
- System solutions Bar Codes – RFID – Numbering Systems
- Web enabled solutions accessible world wide
- Create history of each product
We continue to create new solutions and many novel protections are not represented here – contact us today to learn more! Please review our security and authenticity solutions in full here (PDF).