Grapevine Communications, one of the area’s leading full-service advertising, marketing and public relations agency, has been selected by two major packaging companies. Sarasota-based Penta5 USA, LLC, which is a division of PPi Technologies Group, and Canada-based Midlake Specialty Food Products have both enlisted the agency to provide branding and packaging design services. Grapevine has created a niche in the manufacturing and packaging industries dating back to its original operations in Montreal, Canada from 1988 to 1998. When Grapevine was re-established in the Sarasota area in 2002, clients have included Quasar Pure Silk, Weighpack Machinery and EverSafe all-natural mosquito control, among others. Penta5 USA, LLC hired Grapevine to create branding and design packaging for its UltraSun Cream, a paraben-free, zinc oxide (non-nano), broad spectrum SPF 30 sunscreen with no chemical filters and enriched with avocado and hemp oils. Midlake Specialty Food Products chose the agency to design packaging for its line of premier hempseed food products, including powders, oils and Nutracis Hulled Hempseeds.

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