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Blue Diamond Growers to Use Paxonix for Packaging Design and Development.


STAMFORD, Conn. -- Blue Diamond(R) Growers and External Partners to Use Paxonix(R) Collaborative Software This is a list of collaborative software (or list of groupware) applications. Wiki software is on a list of wiki software. Open source or free software
The following are open source or free software applications.
 to Manage Digital Assets and Workflow Management for All Packaging Design Projects

Paxonix, Inc., the pioneer and leader in integrated software Separate software components or applications that have been combined into one package. See integrated software package.  and services for package design and development professionals, today announced an agreement with Blue Diamond Growers Blue Diamond Growers is a California-based agricultural cooperative and marketing organization that specializes in almonds. Founded in 1910, the organization claims to be the world's largest "tree nut processing and marketing company". , for using the Paxonix Packaging Professional Suite/PaxPro(TM) in complete management of Blue Diamond's packaging graphics, workflow and approval processes.

Blue Diamond(R) Growers and their extensive list of external partners (Creative Design, Color Separation Separating a picture by colors in order to make negatives and plates for color printing. The four-color process requires four separations: cyan, magenta, yellow and black (CMYK). See OPI and DCS. , Printers, Marketing, POS/POP creation) are utilizing the Paxonix(R) PaxPro(TM) toolset for a major line redesign effort. Paxonix has provided the quick-start system configuration and initial user setup, training, and access to the Paxonix Customer Service Center for technical support.

"We spent a great deal of time evaluating all players in the collaborative workflow and design software space," says Jennifer Pfanner, Marketing Manager, Blue Diamond Growers. "We see the Paxonix system as an essential part of the design process." Blue Diamond(R) Growers plans to fully utilize the Paxonix(R) PaxPro(TM) toolset for:

- On-line proofing, annotation 1. (programming, compiler) annotation - Extra information associated with a particular point in a document or program. Annotations may be added either by a compiler or by the programmer.  and review

- Design project management from start to finish

- Management of assets to provide visibility at previously unreachable stages of the Supply Chain

"Managing the complex packaging design process at major CPG CPG

central pattern generators.
 companies such as Blue Diamond Growers is the reason an intuitive solution such as the Paxonix(R) PaxPro(TM) toolset is getting the exposure and acceptance with our customers," says Kent St.Vrain, Vice President, Sales and Marketing, Paxonix. "Also, customers want to have control of the intellectual capital created and with minimal investment be able to allow for quicker collaboration and approvals."

The Packaging Professional Suite

The Packaging Professional Suite is the first integrated software to bring the benefits of product life cycle management to package design and development. It streamlines and manages processes, automates and tracks workflow and approvals, delivers up-to-date content, and supports communication and collaboration across both local and remote groups.

The suite includes the PaxPro(TM) Toolset, which provides workflow/collaboration, digital asset management, Blue Diamond Growers and their marketing partners will use Paxonix(R) Collaborative Software to Manage Digital Assets and Workflow Management in Packaging Design Projects, project management, reporting capabilities, visualization tools and on-line proofing (including thumbnails of files that facilitate collaboration and review-and-approval cycles among disperse disperse /dis·perse/ (dis-pers´) to scatter the component parts, as of a tumor or the fine particles in a colloid system; also, the particles so dispersed.

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 players). The software is also easy-to-use and easy-to-configure and is accessible with just a Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you.  and Internet connection from a secure managed environment, so it requires no capital investment and costs less than in-house software development, support and maintenance.

About Blue Diamond Growers

Blue Diamond(R) Growers is the world's largest tree nut processing and marketing company. Founded in 1910, the cooperative celebrated its 94th anniversary in 2004. Blue Diamond(R) led the development of California's almond industry from a minor domestic specialty crop to the world leader in almond production and marketing. We continue to build markets and create new products, new uses, and new opportunities for members of Blue Diamond(R) Growers.

Headquartered in Sacramento, California “Sacramento” redirects here. For other uses, see Sacramento (disambiguation).
Sacramento is the capital of the State of California and the county seat of Sacramento County.
, nearly 4,000 California almond growers deliver nearly one-third of California's almonds annually to their cooperative. The crop is marketed to all 50 states and more than 90 foreign countries, making almonds California's largest food export, and the sixth largest U.S. food export. The California crop is valued annually at over $1 billion dollars.

About Paxonix

Owned by MeadWestvaco Corporation, Paxonix, Inc. is the pioneer and leader in creating tools and services for package design and development professionals in food and beverages F&B is a common abbreviation in the United States and Commonwealth countries, including Hong Kong. F&B is typically the widely accepted abbreviation for "Food and Beverage," which is the sector/industry that specializes in the conceptualization, the making of, and delivery of foods. , health and beauty care, pharmaceutical and other consumer packaged goods Noun 1. packaged goods - groceries that are packaged for sale
foodstuff, grocery - (usually plural) consumer goods sold by a grocer

plural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than one
. Our flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , the Paxonix Packaging Professional Suite, allows companies and their value chains to accelerate speed-to-market, reduce costs, and drive package innovation. Because the software is hosted, secure, and easy-to-use and configure, it helps to integrate and expedite even highly individual, complex processes - to produce packages that make a difference and provide a competitive edge. www.paxonix.com
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