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What can a hang tab do for my product?

If your product’s package is not designed to hang, a hang tab can get your product up, off the shelf and hanging where customers will see it, increasing profits. Do-It Hang Tabs work wherever you want a proven, practical method for showing more product in less space (hanging merchandise) or for repairing or reinforcing packages. Place a hang tab on a product and your merchandise can now be hung on a peg display or display strip.

Products with torn blister cards lie on the shelf or floor and do not sell. Place a Do-It Hang Tab over the torn area and the product package is as good as new. Use Do-It Hang Tabs to reinforce existing packaging and you can prevent damage. It’s a low-cost way to feel secure about your product.

How do I know which hang tab will work best for my product?

There are a number of factors to consider when selecting a hang tab. The size, weight, shape, and surface area of your product’s package all influence which hang tab will work best for you.

How you plan to display your product and how you plan to apply a hang tab to your product can also affect hang tab selection. How do you choose? Talk to us. We know hang tabs. We know surfaces and which shrink films work best. We know how to apply hang tabs. Often, the best way to determine which hang tab will work is to send us samples of your product and let us try different hang tabs. Or we’ll develop a new hang tab to meet your needs.

Why are there different hole styles for hang tabs?

How you plan to hang or display your product can determine which hole style to use. Each hole style has its own advantages.

Slot style hang tabs are the most versatile of our hang tabs. This style works well with most packages. The delta-shaped hanging area self-centers on any peg display. The versatile euro style or Saturn-shaped hole loads easily onto single- or double-wire peg displays.

Round hole hang tabs are great for lighter-weight items and fit a variety of single peg fixtures.

Hook hang tabs make selecting the exact product quick and easy — customers can remove any product from any position on the display. Hooks also fit a variety of peg fixtures, simplify and speed up rotation of stock, and allow you to hang more than one size or color of the same product on a peg.

Is a hang tab the same as a durable tag?

A standard hang tab is designed to only hang a product in a retail environment. This is true for most of our printed hang tabs as well, which have a printed message and/or graphics. It consists of plastic, adhesive, and liner paper and has the structural integrity to hold a product on a peg hook or display strip until purchased.

A durable tag is usually designed to only hang on a product by means of a string or plastic tie — it does not support the product. So while a Do-It PrinTab® Hang Tab can be a durable tag, a durable tag cannot be a hang tab.

What causes a hang tab to fail?

Occasionally, hang tabs fail to perform as expected. Often, the cause of the failure can be easily identified and corrected.

When a hang tab fails, we first examine the weight and shape of the product and where on the product the hang tab was placed. Each style of hang tab is designed for packages of various sizes and shapes, and is tested to hang a specific maximum weight. When a hang tab fails, the reason can be as simple as the wrong hang tab being selected for that particular package — the package was too heavy for that hang tab, the shape was wrong, or it was placed incorrectly on the package (over a shrink-wrap seal, for example).

If we determine that the right hang tab was used for the particular package, there are a number of other factors that can influence hang tab performance. In general, key factors that affect hang tab performance are:

• Location on package
• Surface form
• Hanging environment — temperature/humidity
• Substrates — package surface
• Surface contaminations
• Master carton packaging and shipping considerations
• Package size, weight, and peel angle
• Wet-out time

If you are having problems with your hang tabs, call us. We can help identify and find a solution for any hang tab problem.

What benefit does a fold-up hang tab offer?

Fold-up hang tabs lie flat during master carton packing and shipping and fold up if needed in the retail environment. This provides options for the store. If your product is placed on a shelf, the hang tab will go unnoticed. If store personnel want to hang the product, they simply fold up the hang hole and place the product on a peg hook, display strip, or anywhere else they want to display it.

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Backshopping — Occurs when customers select and/or return a product from any position on a peghook without having to remove all of the products in front of it. Do-It Hook Hang Tabs are ideal for backshopping.

Billboard PromoTab® Hang Tab — A printed, bottle neck hang tab designed to attach a sample product to your existing product and provide “billboard” space for your attention-getting message.

Bottle Neck Hang Tab — A hang tab designed to hang on a bottled product, hang a bottled product, or promote sampling, two-for-one specials, or other types of product promotions.

Cluster — Cluster hang tab products are parts grouped together on a liner sheet, usually in an economy roll or a sheeted format. Economy roll cluster parts are usually the lowest-priced version of a particular product and ideal for cost-conscious and hand-application environments.

Cross-merchandise — Placing one product in a store near a related product to increase awareness and sales. For instance, placing batteries by flashlights or crayons near coloring books. Do-It Display Strips are ideal for cross-merchandising your products.

Do-Its — A generic term often given to hang tabs in general, based on the strong brand identity of Do-It Hang Tabs.

Eye zone — The area in a retail environment that draws the customer’s attention. Hang tabs help by hanging your product in the eye zone where customers will notice it. If they see your product, they will buy your product.

FlexiTab® Flexible Hang Tab — Hang tabs with a thicker hang hole area and a thinner adhesive area. This flexibility gives this type of hang tab the ability to stick well to curved, uneven, or uniquely shaped packages.

Fold-up Hang Tab — This hang tab is designed to lie flat on the product for shipping and fold up for hanging.

Hand application — All of our hang tabs can be applied by hand, but our cluster, sheeted, Stax™ Pads, and loose-piece parts are designed specifically for hand application.

Impulse purchase — Studies have shown that up to 70 percent of
in-store purchases are not planned. These spontaneous decisions are made in the store when a product is noticed. Hang tabs get your product noticed.

IRC — Instant Redeemable Coupon. IRCs can be designed into certain printed hang tabs.

Loose piece — Loose-piece hang tabs are single-piece, individual hang tabs.

PrinTab® Printed Hang Tab — This hang tab usually is printed with your logo, product information, bar code, and attractive graphics designed to attract customers’ attention at the point of purchase.

PromoTab® Hang Tab — Printed version of a bottle neck or other hang tab used for in-store promotion.

Reinforcer — Hang tab designed to strengthen the existing hang hole in blister cards, folding cartons, and paper header cards.

Recommended product display weight — The ideal weight we recommend for a particular hang tab. Recommended weight should be used as a guideline only. Hang tab hanging performance is determined by a number of factors other than weight. The size and shape of product, the type of surface, and the hanging environment also affect performance. The surface should be clean, dry, and free of contaminants.

Sheeted — Sheeted hang tabs are cluster parts that have been trimmed to a convenient handheld size. Sheeted parts are usually formatted in groups of 10, 20, 24, or 36 parts per sheet. Sheeted parts are ideal for hand application, either at the packaging facility or in the store. They are easy to use — just peel and place.

Wet-out — The amount of time for the adhesive on a hang tab to completely adhere to the surface to which it is attached.

Wobbler — Clear or printed, wobblers attach to your store shelf and draw attention to your product. As customers walk by, the moving air moves the wobbler, drawing attention to your product. < top