When supply chains break, determination and resourcefulness save the day.

Even before the pandemic, our greatest challenge has been supply chain issues leaving us scrambling for packaging alternatives.

When the pandemic hit and supply chains crumbled there were no 100ml PET bottles in an appropriate form available anywhere in North America.
After the bottles being on backorder for a year we could not wait any longer and decided to look into the feasibility of custom bottles. Since all the bottles we had been sourcing over the years originated in China, we would actually be reducing our carbon footprint since they would ship directly to us rather than to a supplier in the US and then to us.

Dealing with language barriers was challenging but once we worked out the initial kinks we were able to design and produce new bottles that are unique in the marketplace which enhances the brand identity, light weight and capture the apothecary aesthetic we wanted to fit with the Strathcona 1890 brand.