Nogales, AZ

GREEN REPACK

First Place Winner

Green Repack provides professional repackaging services for the fresh produce industry, helping storage, distribution, and produce companies manage perishable products more efficiently.

Our mission is to improve the repackaging process by addressing the challenges faced by the produce industry through effective, transparent, and reliable services. We focus on quality, efficiency, and properly trained personnel to ensure our customers receive consistent service they can depend on.

As we grow, Green Repack plans to continuously expand and improve our service offerings, invest in employee training, and build a strong, trusted company within the produce industry. Our long-term vision includes strategically expanding into logistics and transportation services, creating a more comprehensive solution for our customers.

Our logistics model is designed around customer demand. By aligning transportation and distribution services with the volume and movement requirements of our customers, Green Repack can create an efficient and sustainable logistics operation while providing greater value to the produce industry.

SMART CONTAINER/COLORFULL CONTAINER

Second Place

My product, ColorFull Container, is a simple device that helps artists (painters) save lots of time and money. It is a customized redesign of the classic medical syringe (not the needle, but the plastic container and plunger). ColorFull Container offers painters the smart option of saving paint, squeezed out of a tube, back into an airtight container, keeping it fresh for months, even years, instead of on an open-air palette where it dries in a matter of days.

Art supplies are notoriously expensive. When an art enthusiast squeezes paint out of a very expensive tube of oil color, it is a race against time. Once oil paint is introduced to oxygen, a chemical reaction called oxidation/polymerization occurs, and fresh paint begins its inevitable journey to dry town. As the adage says, you can't put toothpaste back in the tube. Same goes for oil colors. Paint that didn't make it onto canvas that day is left on a palette waiting its inevitable dry plunge into the waste bin — 1 to 4 days depending on color-specific drying rates. Because of this brief window, artists end up throwing a lot of muggy paint away and spend lots of time remixing and re-blending colors so they can eventually get back to work. A huge drain on money and time. The ColorFull Container offers a simple but very effective solution to both problems.

ALTURABREW

Third Place

Our company is a family-owned coffee business that brings high-quality coffee from our family farm in Honduras to customers in the United States. Our coffee comes from Honduras, a country known for producing flavorful and high-quality coffee. We package and sell the coffee so customers can enjoy authentic Honduran coffee at home.

Our business is different because it is a family business connected directly to the coffee’s country of origin. We know where the beans are coming from. We want to share not only great coffee, but also a part of our Honduran culture and family tradition. We also want to help the producer

And workers in the farm, and take care of the farm that is in a biological reserve in Honduras.

Our customers are coffee lovers who enjoy quality coffee and people who want to try something different. We plan to market our coffee through our website, social media such as Instagram and Facebook, word of mouth, local events, and recommendations from our customers.

We will make a profit by purchasing and importing the coffee, packaging it, and selling each bag at a price that covers our costs and leaves a reasonable profit. As our business grows, we hope to sell more coffee, reach new customers, and eventually offer our products in more stores and locations.