Purposes opt for bespoke packaging
A conventional box leaves space around the product, letting it to rattle during transit until someone packs the space with foam or paper to keep it still.
Standard packaging with a sticker on the side is the easiest approach, but it serves no specific customer.
Custom Pack Studio creates tailored packaging around your product, ensuring the box, print and finish support your brand instead of covering it.
We make bespoke boxes, mailer boxes, gift packaging and printed accessories for companies throughout Acrefair and the surrounding valleys, with orders ranging from one sample to a full pallet delivered straight to a warehouse door.
We impose no minimum order on anything we produce, therefore stock and storage costs remain unnecessary until you know a product will sell.
Share your packaging requirements, and we’ll adapt the recommendation to fit the product itself.
What tailored packaging entails
Custom packaging begins with a box designed specifically for your product, so its dimensions and printed finish exactly reflect its contents.
Choose the dimensions, allowing a custom-sized box to secure the product securely without unnecessary movement created by a standard size.
Every element, from the structure and board weight to the print and finish, is adapted to the contents and their journey.
Adding a logo onto a stock box produces personalised packaging, but it is a less extensive project than a completely customisable design.
With bespoke packaging, each panel, fold and finish can be altered, even for just one unit, enabling you to create custom packaging that fits perfectly.
Packaging options which we design for Acrefair organisations
We offer an wide range of packaging boxes, produced to bespoke dimensions and printed in full colour using your artwork.
The ideal box style and packaging format depend on what you sell and how it is handled, while our packaging specialists will talk you through the options!
Shop cartons and tailor-made brand packaging
Reverse tuck end cartons are a retail packaging mainstay, designed for lighter products such as cosmetics and supplements, with flaps which tuck securely inside at both the top and bottom.
Crash lock boxes are a stronger type of lock box, made from cardboard with a base that snaps flat when opened, stopping heavier products from pushing the bottom out.
Parcel and digital shop cartons
A bespoke mailer box safeguards your product throughout the courier network and turns delivery into part of the brand experience and visibility, with printing on the inside and outside rather than only across the outer face.
These custom printed boxes are available as well with gussets, creating extra depth so bulkier items can sit securely without shifting.
Surprise packages, rigid cases and roofed boxes
Rigid boxes, gift boxes with magnetic closures and other branded boxes provide products bought as gifts the polished presentation customers expect, without customers needing to wrap them.
Gable boxes, including a fold up carry handle, are suitable for food gifts and hampers.
For premium lines, we may choose SBS board, solid bleached sulphate and a bright, food safe paperboard, rather than standard carton stock, while foil and soft touch lamination improve the final effect.
Develop guidance for your Acrefair business.
Every order includes packaging design support, regardless of how far your artwork has advanced.
If you have a logo and brand guidelines, our design specialists create print ready files and check that colours are reproduced accurately on board, because packaging requires higher resolution than a web image.
You do not need any previous design experience to develop packaging that reflects your brand. Our team can begin with just a logo. Together, you will establish the structure and create professionally designed, print ready artwork, while we explain each technical decision as it arises.
Our online tool lets you personalise a box and preview its look and feel on your screen before printing. We also provide Pantone colour matching, keeping every repeat order consistent.
If you need packaging produced in both English and Welsh, our team considers it a routine artwork requirement, in the same way as any other language or colour change.
Personalised packaging for the Acrefair’s enterprises
Cuisine and drinks
Welsh Lamb and Welsh Beef both have Protected Geographical Indication status, while food packaging in contact with meat or dairy must comply with food contact standards, irrespective of where it is made on either side of the border.
Our BRC Global Packaging certification at High Hygiene level confirms that food packaging is manufactured within controlled and traceable processes, satisfying the checks retailers carry out before approving products for listing.
Beverages and distillation establishments
Across Wales, a thriving drinks culture has emerged over the last twenty years, extending from Brecon Beacons distilleries to newer gin and whisky makers in the north.
Bottle presentation boxes must endure transit while retaining their shelf appeal, with finishes such as foil stamping and embossing providing much of the impact for a limited-edition release or seasonal gift set.
Skincare and beauty
Cosmetic and skincare brands need cartons that shield delicate glass containers and compacts, while providing an attractive presentation on retail shelves.
We manufacture cosmetics packaging with soft touch lamination, foil and embossing, whereas rigid boxes give premium ranges the presence to support a higher price point.
Online shopping and membership brands
Packaging designed for retail display is important when a product is located in a shop or marketplace fulfilment centre, but subscription brands face an entirely different challenge.
The same customer opens an almost identical box every month, making a consistent finish just as important as the initial design.
Packaging created to fit your product’s exact dimensions holds items securely in transit, lowering damage claims and returns from ecommerce orders.
Inside, a fitted insert or printed tissue holds the product securely during transport, as the print greets the eye the moment the box opens.
For a subscription-based brand that places repeat orders monthly, maintaining identical box dimensions helps keep pallet space and warehouse racking predictable, an increasingly important consideration as volumes exceed several hundred units.
Shipping to Acrefair from our Scottish workroom
Everything is produced at our Irvine site, with delivery across the UK to businesses in Acrefair included as standard.
Once your proof is approved, the majority of orders are delivered to a Acrefair address within two to three weeks, matching the delivery timeframe for our packaging throughout the UK.
Custom Pack Studio belongs to KennedySmith (Press) Ltd, an well-established packaging manufacturer that has produced print and packaging since 1997, with its experienced team producing boxes on its own presses.
You approve a proof and, where required by the format, a physical sample before full production starts, while reorders keep the original artwork, meaning larger quantities require no fresh preparation.
Employing a sole box company for your full product range makes packaging.
You receive a single invoice and work through a sole point of contact, rather than pursuing multiple suppliers, each offering different prices for individual weeks.
Eco-friendly packaging as the default
Every box we produce is 100% recyclable as the board itself enables that recyclability.
We source our board and paper from FSC and PEFC certified suppliers, with each sheet traced through an audited chain of custody to responsibly managed forests.
Across our processes, we are reducing single use plastic and EPS foam void fill because neither is readily recyclable, while both pose disposal difficulties after a parcel has been opened.
Where the design permits, biodegradable or paper-based protection takes their place instead.
Not any minimum order for Acrefair businesses.
Across a large part of the industry, custom packaging demands minimum orders of 500 or 1,000 units, leaving you to finance stock and storage before ascertaining whether the product will sell.
We have no minimum order requirement.
Smaller businesses may place an order for a single sample, a limited run for testing, or a complete production run after demand has been established, with the per unit price adjusting at each quantity across this range.
You are sent a written quote before production starts, while the high-quality materials and packaging products provided for a run of fifty are the same as those supplied for a run of ten thousand.
Before ordering in bulk, ask for a printed sample to inspect the print, colour and fit in your hand.
Ways to order bespoke packaging
Share your brief by calling 01294 314 919 or via the online design tool, then let us know the product, quantity and roughly how it is sold.
Design and proof. We develop packaging that suits your product, arrange the print layout, then send you a proof to check.
Request a physical sample when the format calls for one. Approve it once you are satisfied with the colour and construction.
Production and delivery. Your order is printed and finished in Irvine, subsequently delivered to your Acrefair address, usually within two to three weeks.
Bespoke packaging Acrefair Frequently Asked Questions
Do you deliver custom packaging to Acrefair?
Yes. We manufacture each product in Irvine, and then deliver throughout the UK as part of our standard service, extending to each corner of Acrefair and the whole of Wales without levying a additional charge because the destination lies further from our factory.
How much could be the basic package requirement for Acrefair?
No minimum order requirement applies. You can ask for one box or several thousand in any format, with pricing adjusted according to quantity in a written quotation provided before production begins.
Which package aspects can I modify?
Dimensions, structure, board weight, print and finish can all be customised for each format, making sure the designed packaging meets your brief precisely. A branded packaging order can also be printed on both the inside and outside.
Can I request specimens of your wrapping products before buying?
Yes. The sample is printed and finished to production standards, allowing you to verify that the colours meet your brief and the board feels right before approving a bulk order.
Is the wrapping able to be recycled and biodegradable?
Each box is 100% recyclable. We do not use plastic laminates that prevent recycling except when food safety requires them, while biodegradable protective materials are utilised whenever the format allows.
Is it possible to I place the identical Acrefair design purchase in the future?
Certainly, reorders rely on the original artwork file, allowing you to increase an order or prepare for another season without having to redesign the packaging.
Request a no-cost quote from Custom Pack Studio straight away.
Contact us on 01294 314 919 or at contact@custompackstudio.co.uk, providing your product, packaging requirements and intended quantities.
There is no minimum order, each project comes with design support, and every piece of custom packaging made here starts with your product, never a template.
Submit your enquiry and we will issue a written quotation.
