Associate Product Manager

Photo of various Spacemaker® school boxes.

The Business of Back-To-School

Eldon was the dominate market leader in the school supply box market, offering the widest selection and highest quality of products. Within the BTS segment, Eldon maintained a very tight focus with plastic supply boxes and clipboards... no corrugate boxes, no lunch boxes, no folders.

Eldon also served as an industry leader in the BTS category with market leading research, every year introducing the hottest colors and maintaining top licensed properties as chosen by the kids who used the products. This research not only kept the existing lines fresh, but helped Eldon to launch new cutting edge products, year after year and maintain a considerably dominant market share.

Being seasonal in nature and with Eldon's immense product assortment, the program created incredible challenges to keep on top of trends, launch new products, and to refresh the entire product line nearly every year, including Warner Bros. & Nintendo® licensed products.

Crayon Saver™ Making the World a Better Place... One Crayon at a Time

Close up photo of part of the Crayon Saver™ school box in use.Perhaps the most intriguing, fun shaped BTS product around, the Crayon Saver™ not only reached out to a younger consumer, but created a new product segment. Learn more about the fun shaped Crayon Saver™ here.

Wavemaker™ Close up photo of part of the Wavemaker™ school box.How do you build a new brand when your leading brand makes up the largest share of the market? By introducing an out-of-this-world design and fun, cool features.... by tossing a rock in the pond.

Spacemaker®, Kids Dig Bumps Close up photo of part of the Spacemaker® school box.How do you know you've arrived? When competitors copy your product.... good. When you achieve name recognition of elementary students.... best.

Licensed Spacemaker® Close up of part of the licensed Spacemaker® label with Bugs Bunny®.Focusing on evergreen properties, Eldon rounded out its lineup with strong licensed properties to create a step-up price point segment.

Thingamabox™ Nintendo®Close up image of Nintendo®'s Mario™. Nintendo is all about 3-D action and interaction, so we made a school box will 3-D action. Wish you were still a kid?

Sweet BTS Sell Sheets Scans of two BTS sell sheet covers.The sell sheets that set the template for the BTS sell sheets to follow.

Promotional Displays Photo of part of a full pallet of Spacemaker® school boxes.The pallet design that transformed Eldon's pallet program as well as new PDQ shelf displays.

Licensed ClipboardsPhoto of two licensed clipboards.Clipboards so fun that even adults want them.  

Looney Tunes™ characters TM & © 2003 Warner Bros.
Mario Kart 64™ is a TM & © 2003 Nintendo. All rights reserved.