Why pick bespoke packaging
A regular box leaves space around the product, enabling it to rattle during transit until someone fills the gaps with foam or paper to keep it still.
Conventional packaging with an adhesive label is straightforward, but it is designed for nobody in particular.
Custom Pack Studio creates bespoke packaging customised for your product, ensuring the box, print and finish support your brand rather than overshadowing it.
We produce custom boxes, mailer boxes, gift packaging and printed accessories for businesses across Gaer and the valleys beyond, with orders ranging from one sample to a full pallet delivered directly to your warehouse door.
We have no minimum order for anything we make, so stock and storage expenses are unnecessary until you know a product will sell.
Tell us your packaging requirements, and we will customise the recommendation to suit the product precisely.
What custom packaging implies
Custom packaging creates the box around your product from the beginning, meaning that its size and printing reflect exactly what you are putting inside.
Choose your measurements and create a made-to-measure box that keeps the product secure, stopping it from rattling about in the unused space of a standard-sized box.
Each element, ranging from the structure and board weight to the print and finish, is customised for the contents and their journey.
Printing your logo on a stock box creates personalised packaging, involving less work than a entirely customisable design.
With tailored packaging, each panel, fold and finish can be adjusted, even for just one unit, enabling you to create custom packaging that fits exactly.
Packing solutions we provide for Gaer ventures
We provide an wide range of packaging boxes, produced to bespoke dimensions and printed in full colour with your artwork.
The best-suited box design and packaging type depend on what you sell and the way it is handled, while our packaging specialists will talk you through the options!
Retail boxes and branded packaging
Reverse tuck end cartons remain a well-known retail packaging choice for lightweight products, including cosmetics and supplements, with flaps that fold neatly into both the top and bottom.
Crash lock boxes are a sturdier kind of lock box, constructed from cardboard and featuring a base that snaps flat when opened, preventing heavier products from pushing the bottom out.
Parcel and online retail boxes
A custom mailer box protects your product across the courier network, transforming delivery into an exciting part of the brand experience while boosting visibility through printing on both the inside and outside, not merely the outer face.
Gusseted versions of these custom printed boxes offer extra depth, allowing bulkier items to sit securely without moving.
Gift boxes, solid boxes and gable boxes
Rigid boxes, magnetic closure gift boxes and other branded packaging give presents with the presentation customers anticipate, without them having to wrap anything themselves.
Gable boxes featuring folding carry handles suit food gifts as well as hampers.
For premium ranges, we may specify SBS board, meaning, solid bleached sulphate, a bright, food safe paperboard, rather than standard carton stock. Foil and soft touch lamination finishes can further enhance the result.
Design aid for your Gaer identity
Every order provides packaging design support, irrespective of how far your artwork has progressed.
If you have a logo and brand guidelines, our design specialists create print-ready files and verify that colours remain accurate on board, because packaging requires greater resolution than an image on a website.
You do not need previous design experience to develop packaging that represents your brand. Our team can begin with a logo alone, define the structure and create expertly designed artwork ready for print in collaboration with you, explaining each technical decision as it arises.
Our online tool allows you to personalise a box and preview its look before printing. Pantone colour matching keeps each repeat order consistent.
Do you need your packaging printed in both English and Welsh? Our staff manages it as a routine artwork requirement, just like any other language or colour change.
Tailored packaging for Gaer’s own industries
Food and libations
Welsh Lamb and Welsh Beef both hold Protected Geographical Indication status, and all food packaging that comes into contact with meat or dairy must meet food contact standards, regardless of which side of the border it is made on.
We have BRC Global Packaging certification at High Hygiene level, meaning our food packaging is made in controlled, traceable conditions that retailers evaluate before including a product.
Beverages and distillation establishments
Throughout 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 withstand transport while preserving their shelf appeal, with finishes such as foil stamping and embossing providing a great deal of the impact for a limited release or seasonal gift set.
Beauty products and beauty products
Cosmetic and skincare brands require cartons that protect delicate glass and compacts while standing out on the shelf.
We manufacture cosmetics packaging featuring soft touch lamination, foil and embossing, whereas rigid boxes give premium ranges the presence to support a higher price point.
E-commerce and recurring labels
Packaging intended for retail display is important when a product sits in a shop or marketplace fulfilment centre, yet subscription brands face an completely different challenge.
Every month, the same customer opens a nearly identical box, making a uniform finish just as important as the original design.
Effective ecommerce packaging, precisely tailored to your product packaging, keeps items secure in transit while reducing damage claims and returns.
A fitted insert or printed tissue keeps the product secure in transit, while the print remains in view once the box is opened.
For a subscription brand that reorders each month, maintaining consistent box dimensions preserves predictable pallet capacity and warehouse racking, becoming progressively important as volumes exceed several hundred units.
Shipping to Gaer from our Scotland
All products are manufactured within our Irvine facility, with standard UK delivery to businesses in Gaer.
Following proof approval, the majority of orders reach a Gaer address within two to three weeks, in line with our packaging delivery schedule throughout the UK.
Custom Pack Studio belongs to KennedySmith (Press) Ltd, a long-established packaging manufacturer producing print and packaging since 1997. Its experienced team makes the boxes with its own presses.
You get a proof and, where required by the format, a physical sample before full production starts. Reorders use the same artwork, making it possible to scale up without starting the process from the beginning.
Using a single box company for packaging throughout your entire product range simplifies the process.
Have a single invoice and a single point of contact, instead of seeking out multiple suppliers, each quoting a different price for a different week.
Eco-friendly packaging as the norm
Every box we produce is 100% recyclable as the board itself enables that recyclability.
Our board and paper begin with FSC and PEFC certified sources, while each sheet is traced through an audited supply chain to responsibly managed forests.
We’re cutting down on single use plastic and EPS foam void fill across our processes because neither recycles easily, while both create disposal headaches once a parcel has been opened.
Where the design permits, biodegradable or paper-based protection is utilised in their place.
Zero minimum order for Gaer enterprises
Across the industry, custom packaging often requires minimum orders of 500 or 1,000 units, leaving you to finance stock and storage before finding out whether your product will sell.
There is no minimum order requirement whatsoever!
Smaller businesses can opt for a single sample, a brief trial run, or a complete production run after demand is proven, with per-unit pricing scaling across every quantity in between.
Prior to production starts, you will always receive a written quote. The high quality materials and packaging products provided for a run of fifty are identical to those provided for a run of ten thousand.
Prior to committing to a greater quantity, obtain a printed sample and evaluate the print, colour and how it fits in your hand.
How to make a bespoke packaging order
Share your brief by calling 01294 314 919 or via the online design tool, then tell us the product, quantity, and roughly the way it is sold.
Packaging design and proofing. We develop the packaging design tailored to your product, arrange the print layout, and supply a proof for your approval.
Request and approve a sample. If the format requires one, order a physical sample, then sign off when you are happy with the colour and construction.
Production and delivery. Your order is printed and finished in Irvine, then delivered to your Gaer address, generally within two to three weeks.
Personalised boxing Gaer FAQ
Will you ship custom packaging to Gaer?
Yes. We manufacture every product in Irvine, then deliver throughout the UK as standard, reaching every corner of Gaer and the whole of Wales without applying a additional fee because the destination is further away from our factory.
What the order for packaging with Gaer?
No minimum order. We can manufacture one box or thousands in whatever format, with quantity-based pricing confirmed in a written quotation before manufacture begins.
Which elements of the packaging can I tailor?
Each aspect of the format, including size, structure, board weight, print and finish, can be adjusted, ensuring that the packaging matches exactly your brief. Branded packaging may additionally be printed inside and outside.
Would you provide demonstrations of your parcel items before I place an order?
Yes. Your sample is delivered printed and finished exactly as it would be in production, allowing you to check that the colours meet your brief and the board feels right before authorising a larger order.
Could the packaging become recyclable along with does it decompose?
All packaging boxes are completely recyclable. We omit plastic laminates that prevent recycling, except where food safety requires them, while biodegradable protective materials are made available when the format permits.
Is it possible to one submit the same artwork another time?
Certainly! Reorders utilise the original artwork file, meaning you can increase an order or repeat the order for a new season without redesigning the packaging from scratch.
Request a no-cost estimate from the Custom Pack Studio team right away.
Share your product, packaging requirements and anticipated quantities by calling 01294 314 919 or emailing contact@custompackstudio.co.uk.
There’s no minimum order requirement, design support is part of every project, and every item of custom packaging produced here starts with your product, rather than a template.
Send your enquiry and we will return a written quotation.
