The Wine Institute

Pack n' Ship DirectSM brings together industry leaders in key segments and distribution tiers to form a comprehensive, cost-efficient order fulfillment system. Experience in national distribution and compliance, aided by aggregating volume through one, single, integrated system, allows Pack n' Ship DirectSM to provide the most cost-efficient shipping solution available to wineries and direct marketers—right now and right every time!

Linking Wine Producers, Retailers and Consumers Around the World

Today's volatile marketplace has everyone seeking cost-effective means to expand and grow their wine sales and margins, which places greater emphasis on wineries to market directly to the end consumer. This requires navigating the often-confusing regulations of the federal and state compliance agencies, and also means finding powerful partners with the proper wholesale/retail network to accomplish compliant, totally consumer friendly, cost effective deliveries. Pack n' Ship DirectSM, partners with top providers which, together, possess over 40 years of experience in wine shipping and regulation worldwide. Our experience provides a solid understanding of wine industry logistics, and a clear understanding of the challenges that face each winery and direct marketer. Pack n' Ship DirectSM addresses these challenges and we have chosen to focus on providing our wineries and retailers, near and far, and efficient and simple direct-to-customer delivery solution.

As you know, there exists a complex maze of compliance and customer service choices that must be addressed in shipping wine across state lines that may include label registration, price posting, excise and sales tax, management of cash flow between each party and general logistics. Through our alliances, Pack n' Ship DirectSM handles all of these details, from pack and ship services to door step delivery for the smallest, and largest consumer transaction, enabling your winery to focus on its core business of producing and selling fine wines. We simply require you to provide the specific and pertinent order information only; we handle the entire process from there, with ease, including real time follow-up, lowest shipping and packaging cost, speediest delivery and total compliance support.

Pack n' Ship DirectSM offers through our partnership with the FORT system a dynamic web based tool that enables a variety of commerce applications:

• Compliant order taking and distribution, and access to real time information powered by Pack n' Ship Direct's web-based portal.
• Internet storefront for wineries and efficient hosted solutions.
• Full access to infrastructure and marketing exposure vehicles: already tied in to our fulfillment centers, retailers, marketing companies and corporate intranets around the world.
• Comprehensive website administration, enabling our patrons to change content, products and images in real time, as well as generate a variety of sales and tracking reports.
• Seamless integration with major couriers such as UPS and FedEx.
• Easy integration with virtually any winery order management system at nominal cost.
• Winery club management tools—turn-key and speedy.

Let Pack n' Ship DirectSM prove to you our depth of experience and total commitment to your consumer direct program—one bottle at a time!