September 1, 2021

Top Alcoholic Beverage Package Designs for Communication: Summer 2021

We scoured our database for the 10 most effective designs for communication across beverage-alcohol categories.

 

 

As the only provider of syndicated package design data, Designalytics evaluates the top-selling and fastest-growing designs across hundreds of consumer-packaged-goods categories. We look at a wide range of design performance areas, including visibility and navigation, communication, mental availability, and appeal.

Designalytics' ongoing meta-analysis reveals that communication is highly correlated with sales performance. Among the thousands of designs evaluated, these ten beverage-alcohol designs rose to the top of our database for effective communication of the attributes that drive purchase in their respective categories. Designalytics objectively determines which attributes are most important by conducting research with hundreds of category shoppers.

#1 - Crown Royal Black

Category: whiskey (25+)
Achieves distinction on: premium, good for special occasions, high quality, proud to serve others, tastes great, good for drinking on its own, good for mixing, full-flavored, especially crafted

Crown-Black 

#2 - White Claw

Category: hard seltzer
Achieves distinction on:
brand I trust, great on its own—not to mix with anything else, enjoyed by both men and women, refreshing, high quality, quenches thirst, tastes great, good value

White_Claw Final Product Image

#3 - Maker's Mark

Category: whiskey (25+)
Achieves distinction on: good for casual occasions, good for mixing, good value, authentic

Makers-Mark

#4 - Cupcake Vineyards

Category: wine (chardonnay)
Achieves distinction on: good value, good for casual occasions, goes great with food, tastes great

CUPCAKE

#5 - Smirnoff

Category: vodka ($8-$22)
Achieves distinction on: good value, good for mixing, good for casual occasions

SMIRNOFF

#6 - Absolut

Category: vodka ($8-$22)
Achieves distinction on: good for mixing, high quality

Absolut_Vodka Final Product Image

#7 -Stella Artois

Category: beer (imported lager)
Achieves distinction on: premium, quality ingredients

Stella_Artois Final Prod Image

#8 - 19 Crimes

Category: wine (chardonnay)
Achieves distinction on: specially crafted, authentic

19_Crimes Final Product Image

#9 - Sierra Nevada Hazy Little Thing

Category: beer (craft)
Achieves distinction on: refreshing, quenches thirst

Sierra_Nevada HLT Final Product Image

#10 - Natural Light Seltzer

Category: hard seltzer
Achieves distinction on: natural

Natural_Light_Seltzer

As a provider of syndicated design data, we proactively measure the top-selling designs across hundreds of CPG categories. If you’re interested to see how your brand (or a competitor) performs on communication measures—or other key metrics—contact a member of our team