Why select bespoke packaging
A conventional box leaves room around the product, allowing it to rattle during transit until foam or paper is added to prevent movement.
Standard packaging with a side sticker is the simplest approach, but it serves no specific customer.
At Custom Pack Studio, bespoke packaging is shaped around your product, making sure the box, print and finish support your brand instead of overshadowing it.
We manufacture custom boxes, mailer boxes, gift packaging and printed accessories for companies across Garden Village and the surrounding valleys, with orders varying from a single sample to a pallet load delivered directly to a warehouse door.
We have no minimum order for anything we make, so you do not incur stock and storage costs until a product demonstrates that it sells.
Provide your packaging requirements, and we will adapt the recommendation to the product itself.
What personalised packaging entails
With custom packaging, your box is created around the product from the outset, so its dimensions and print fit precisely what you are packing.
You decide the dimensions, allowing a made-to-measure box to cradle the product securely rather than letting it rattle through the empty space of a standard size.
The structure, board weight, print and finish are custom designed as well, carefully matched to what is being packed and the way it travels.
Adding a logo to a stock box produces personalised packaging, offering a less ambitious project than completely customisable design.
With bespoke packaging, every panel, fold and finish can be customised, even for one run, enabling you to create packaging that fits exactly without any compromise.
Packing styles we produce for Garden Village businesses
We produce a full range of packaging boxes, manufactured to bespoke sizes and printed in full colour with your artwork!
Choosing the most suitable box style and packaging format depends on your products and their handling requirements, which our packaging specialists will explain clearly.
Commercial cartons and branded packaging
Reverse tuck end cartons continue to be a standard for retail packaging, well suited for lighter products such as cosmetics and supplements, with flaps that tuck in at both the top and bottom.
Crash lock boxes are a type of lock box, offering a stronger cardboard design with a base that snaps flat when opened, preventing heavier products from pushing the bottom out.
Mailer and online retail parcels
A custom mailer box protects your product across the courier network while turning delivery part of the brand experience and improving visibility, with printing inside and outside rather than solely on the outer face.
Gusseted versions of these custom printed boxes offer extra depth, allowing bulkier items to sit securely without moving.
Gift boxes, robust boxes and pitched-top boxes
Rigid boxes, magnetic close gift boxes and additional branded boxes give products bought as gifts with the refined presentation customers anticipate, removing the need for customers to wrap them on their own.
Gable boxes, featuring a handle which folds upwards, are well suited to food presents and hampers.
For high-end ranges, we may specify SBS board, that is, solid bleached sulphate, a bright, food safe paperboard, rather than conventional carton stock. Foil and soft touch lamination finishes can enhance further the result.
Develop assistance for your Garden Village enterprise
Every order includes packaging design support, regardless of how far your artwork has progressed.
If you have a logo and brand guidelines, our design experts prepare print-ready files and verify that colours stay accurate on board, because packaging needs greater resolution than a website image.
You do not need design experience to create packaging that suits your brand. Beginning with no more than a logo, our team develops the structure and produces expertly designed, print-ready artwork alongside you, explaining every technical decision as it arises.
Our online tool allows you to customise a box and view its look before printing. Pantone colour matching maintains each repeat order consistent.
Do you need your packaging printed in both English and Welsh? Our team manages it as a routine artwork requirement, in the same way as any other language or colour change.
Bespoke packaging for Garden Village’s operations
Cuisine and drink
Welsh Lamb and Welsh Beef both hold Protected Geographical Indication status, while all packaging that comes into contact with meat or dairy must meet food contact requirements, irrespective of which side of the border it is manufactured.
We hold BRC Global Packaging certification at High Hygiene level, confirming our food packaging is made in controlled, traceable conditions reviewed by retailers prior to stocking products onto their shelves.
Tipples and liquor makers
Over the past two decades, Wales has developed a genuine drinks scene, spanning Brecon Beacons distilleries and newer gin and whisky producers across the north.
Bottle presentation boxes must withstand transit while retaining their shelf appeal, with finishes such as foil stamping and embossing delivering a great deal of the impact for a limited release or seasonal gift set.
Beauty products and aesthetics
Cosmetic and skincare brands need cartons that protect fragile glass and compacts while presenting well on the shelf.
We create cosmetics packaging using soft touch lamination, foil and embossing, while rigid boxes make a premium range appear worthy of its higher price.
Online shopping and recurring tags
Packaging designed for retail display matters when a product is located in a store or marketplace fulfilment centre, but subscription brands face an completely different challenge.
The same customer opens a nearly identical box every month, making a uniform finish as important as the initial design.
High-quality e-commerce packaging, made exactly to fit your product packaging, keeps items safe during transit and lowers damage claims and returns.
A fitted insert or printed tissue holds the product firmly in transit, while the design is straight away visible once the box is opened.
For a subscription brand that reorders monthly, sticking to consistent box dimensions makes pallet space and warehouse racking consistent, an ever more valuable benefit once volumes exceed a few hundred units.
Sending to Garden Village from our Scotland atelier
All items are produced at our Irvine facility, with UK delivery to businesses in Garden Village provided as standard.
The majority of orders arrive at a Garden Village address within two to three weeks after proof approval, using the same timetable as all our packaging throughout the UK.
Custom Pack Studio forms part of KennedySmith (Press) Ltd, a packaging manufacturer producing print and packaging since 1997. Its established staff produces the boxes on 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, allowing you to scale up without restarting the process again.
Using a single box company for packaging across your entire product range streamlines the process.
Have a single invoice and one point of contact, instead of pursuing multiple suppliers, each quoting a different price for a different week.
Ethical packaging as default
Every box we produce is 100% recyclable since its board is able to be recycled.
We source our board and paper from FSC and PEFC certified suppliers, with every sheet tracked through an audited chain of custody to responsibly managed forests.
We are cutting back on single use plastic and EPS foam void fill throughout our processes, as neither material is easy to recycle and both cause disposal difficulties after a parcel has been opened.
When the design permits, biodegradable or paper-based protective materials are employed instead of them.
There is no minimum order for Garden Village firms.
Across the industry, custom packaging frequently demands minimum orders of 500 or 1,000 units, requiring you to pay for stock and storage before finding out if your product will sell.
There is no minimum order requirement whatsoever.
Small 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 each quantity in between.
You always get a written quote before production starts, and the high quality materials and packaging products provided for fifty are identical to those provided for ten thousand.
Before placing a large order, obtain a printed sample to assess its print, colour and its fit in your hand.
How to get custom packaging
Provide your brief by telephoning 01294 314 919 or using the online design tool. Tell us the product, quantity required, and approximately how it is sold.
Design and print proofing. We design packaging that suits your product, prepare the print layout, and provide a proof for your approval.
Request a physical sample when the format requires one. Approve it once you are satisfied with the colour and construction.
Production and delivery: Your order is printed and completed in Irvine, then delivered to your Garden Village address, typically within two to three weeks.
Tailored packaging Garden Village Enquiries
Do you provide made-to-order packaging to Garden Village?
Yes. We manufacture every item in Irvine and provide standard delivery throughout the UK, covering every part of Garden Village and all of Wales, without adding a separate fee for locations farther from the factory.
What the minimum amount for packaging at Garden Village?
No minimum order is required. You can request one box or several thousand in any format, with pricing adjusted according to quantity in a written quotation issued before production commences.
Which parts of the packaging can I customise?
Size, structure, board weight, print and finish can all be changed for every format, ensuring the packaging meets your brief precisely. Branded packaging can also feature printing on both the inside and exterior.
Can you send demonstrations of your packaging solutions products before I choose to place an order?
Absolutely! Your sample is delivered printed and finished exactly as it would be in production, allowing you to check the colours meet your brief and ensure the board feels right before approving a bulk order.
Does the packaging be recyclable plus can it biodegrade?
Every box is 100% recyclable. We do not employ plastic laminates which prevent recycling unless food safety makes them necessary, while biodegradable protective materials are offered where the format allows.
Is it possible to one order again the same layout at a later time?
Yes, repeat orders use the same artwork file, meaning that increasing an order or repeating it for another season doesn’t require the packaging to be redesigned from scratch.
Receive a complimentary quote from Custom Pack Studio without delay.
Contact us on 01294 314 919 or at contact@custompackstudio.co.uk, providing your product, packaging requirements and intended quantities.
No minimum order applies, design guidance comes with every project, and every item of custom packaging produced here is developed around your product instead of a standard template.
Send your enquiry and we will issue a written quote.
