Companiesfor Architecture + Design / Consumer Research

While Brian Hock trained for the Louisville Ironman in 2010, he had an idea for a way to stay hydrated along the way. That idea evolved into Simple Hydration, a start-up company with an innovative product that is being manufactured in the US.

Five months ago, David Johnson and his wife Estelle McNair started a branding company together. Today, Johnson-McNair is beginning to gain traction and serve clients all over the country.

Though Kaleidoscope has been around for 22 years, in its last decade, its focus has shifted to four distinct areas of product development. By keeping a clear eye on consumer goods, electronics, healthcare and transportation, Kaleidoscope takes the process from research to ideation.

Finding closure has opened big doors for Northern Kentucky manufacturing company Mauer USA. Three years ago, Mauer AG- a German maker of caps and closures for everything from toothpaste tubes to shampoo bottles- made the fortuitous decision to locate their North American operation in Hebron, Ky.  

Multi-Color Corp. is a growing innovator in the product labeling industry, an often-overlooked, but key component of consumer brand design. Cincinnati-based Multi-Color's high-tech labeling processes support more than 330 well-known consumer brands for more than 650 customers in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Central and South America.  

Marketing the Pursuit of Happiness is what happens at Barefoot Inc., an agency that works on making consumers passionate about brands and products. Cincinnati-based Barefoot has been recognized by Inc. Magazine as one of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies,

making it on to the magazine’s inaugural Inc. 5000 list.
 

By staking out the leading edge of the brand-design revolution, LPK Inc. has helped establish the images of some of the most well-known consumer products and grown exponentially.

Cincinnati-based dunnhumbyUSA has raised consumer research to a science by finding out exactly what consumers want. It's information that major retailers are very interested in and it's why dunnhumbyUSA has grown so rapidly with offices in Cincinnati, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis, New York and Portland, Oregon.