Why pick bespoke wrapping
A typical box leaves space around the product, enabling it to rattle during transit until someone fills the gaps with paper or foam to hold it in place.
Choosing off-the-shelf packaging with a sticker on the side may be easy, but it belongs to nobody in particular.
Custom Pack Studio creates bespoke packaging around your product, making sure the box, print and finish support your brand rather than covering it.
We produce custom boxes, mailer boxes, gift packaging and printed accessories for businesses across Hermitage and the valleys beyond, with orders varying from a single sample to a full pallet delivered directly to your warehouse door.
We impose no minimum order on anything we produce, therefore stock and storage costs remain unnecessary until you know a product is going to sell.
Share your packaging requirements, and we’ll customise the recommendation to suit the product precisely.
What bespoke packaging entails
Custom packaging starts with a box designed specifically for your product, so its dimensions and printed finish exactly reflect its contents.
You select the dimensions, ensuring a made-to-measure box holds the product securely rather than allowing it to rattle within excess space created by a generic size.
Each element, including the construction, board weight, printing and finish, is adapted to the contents and the way they are transported.
Adding a logo on a stock box produces personalised packaging, but it is a smaller project than a completely customisable design.
With customised packaging, each panel, fold and finish can be tailored, including a single item, enabling you to create packaging that fits exactly without compromise.
Wrapping types we manufacture for Hermitage businesses
We supply an comprehensive range of packaging boxes, manufactured to bespoke dimensions and printed in full colour with your artwork.
The ideal box design and packaging format are based on what you sell and the way it is handled, while our packaging experts will talk you through the choices!
Store cartons and personalised logo packaging
Reverse tuck end cartons are a common retail packaging option, suited to lighter products such as cosmetics and supplements, featuring closure flaps that fold into both the top and bottom.
Crash lock boxes are sturdier cardboard lock boxes with a base that snaps flat when opened, stopping heavier products from forcing the bottom out.
Shipping and online retail boxes
A custom mailer box safeguards your product throughout the courier network and makes delivery part of the brand experience and visibility, with printing on the inside and outside instead of only on the outer face.
These custom printed boxes are available with gussets, providing additional depth to hold bigger items firmly in place.
Gift packages, sturdy cases and gable boxes
Rigid boxes, gift boxes with magnetic closures and additional branded boxes provide presents with polished presentation customers expect, without them needing to wrap anything themselves.
Gable boxes, featuring a fold up carry handle, are great for food gifts and hampers!
For premium lines, we may select 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.
Create help for your Hermitage brand
Every order includes packaging design assistance, regardless of how far your artwork has progressed.
After your logo and brand guidelines are established, our design experts create files suitable for print and ensure colours remain true on board, where packaging requires greater resolution than website imagery.
You do not need previous design experience to develop packaging that represents your brand. Our team can start with a logo alone, establish the structure and create expertly designed artwork prepared for print in collaboration with you, clarifying each technical decision as it arises.
Our online tool allows you to customise a box and view its appearance before printing. Pantone colour matching maintains each repeat order consistent.
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.
Custom packaging for Hermitage’s own industries
Cuisine and drink
Welsh Lamb and Welsh Beef both hold Protected Geographical Indication status, while packaging in contact with meat or dairy must satisfy food contact standards, irrespective of which side of the border it is made on.
We hold BRC Global Packaging certification at High Hygiene level, which means our food packaging is manufactured in controlled, traceable conditions that retailers review prior to listing products.
Beverages and liquor producers
Over the past two decades, Wales has developed a real drinks scene, encompassing Brecon Beacons distilleries and more recent gin and whisky producers throughout the north.
Presentation boxes for bottles need to endure transit while remaining eye-catching on the shelf, with finishes including foil stamping and embossing adding much of the impact to a limited release or seasonal gift set.
Makeup and beauty products for Hermitage
Cosmetic and skincare brands need cartons which protect fragile glass and compacts while presenting well on shelves.
We manufacture cosmetics packaging with soft touch lamination, foil and embossing, while rigid boxes pair with premium ranges designed to support a higher price point.
E-commerce and recurring brands
Retail ready and display packaging are important when products are placed in shops or marketplace fulfilment centres, but subscription brands encounter a distinct challenge.
Each month, the same customer opens a nearly identical box, making a uniform finish just as important as the initial design.
Effective online retail packaging, made to match your product packaging exactly, keeps goods secure in transit and reduces damage claims and returns.
Inside, a fitted insert or printed tissue holds the product securely during transit, while the print greets the eye the moment the box opens.
For a subscription brand that places monthly reorders, using uniform box dimensions makes pallet space and warehouse racking consistent, an increasingly valuable benefit once volumes exceed a few hundred units.
Supplying Hermitage straight from our Scotland manufacturing facility
All products are manufactured at our Irvine facility, with standard UK delivery to businesses in Hermitage.
After your proof is approved, the majority of orders arrive at a Hermitage address within two to three weeks, matching the delivery timeframe for our packaging throughout the UK.
Custom Pack Studio is owned by KennedySmith (Press) Ltd, a packaging manufacturer producing print and packaging since 1997, meaning an long-standing team produces the boxes with its own presses.
You review a proof and, when required by the format, a physical sample before full production starts, while reorders use the same artwork, ensuring that scaling up never requires the process to start again.
Using a single box company for packaging across your entire product range makes the process straightforward.
You receive one invoice and liaise with one contact, avoiding multiple suppliers quoting different prices for different weeks.
Ethical packaging as the default
Each box we produce is fully recyclable, because of the board it is made from.
We source our board and paper from FSC and PEFC certified suppliers, with every sheet traced through an audited chain of custody to responsibly managed forests.
We are reducing single use plastic and EPS foam void fill across our processes as neither is easily recyclable, and both create disposal issues once a parcel is opened.
Where the design permits, biodegradable or paper-based protective materials are used in their place.
There is no minimum order for Hermitage businesses
Throughout the wider industry, custom packaging often requires minimum orders of 500 or 1,000 units, requiring you to fund stock and storage before knowing whether a product will sell.
There is no minimum order requirement .
Small businesses are able to order one sample, a restricted trial run, or a full production batch after proving demand, and with per unit pricing adjusted for each order quantity throughout the range.
You receive a written quote before production starts, while the high-quality materials and packaging products supplied for a run of fifty are the same as those provided for a run of ten thousand.
Prior to placing a large order, obtain a printed sample to assess its print, colour and its fit in your hand.
The best way to order bespoke packaging
Send your brief. Call 01294 314 919 or use the online design tool. Tell us the product, quantity and approximately the way it is sold.
Design and proof. We create packaging suited to your product, prepare the print layout, and send a proof for your review.
Ask for a physical sample if the format requires one, then sign off once you are satisfied with the colour and construction.
Production and delivery. Your order is printed and finished in Irvine, then delivered to your Hermitage address, normally within two to three weeks.
Personalised packaging Hermitage Q&A
Do you ship bespoke packaging to Hermitage?
Yes. We make every item in Irvine and provide standard delivery across the UK, covering every part of Hermitage and the whole of Wales, without adding a separate fee for locations more distant from the factory.
Which is the least packaging order in Hermitage?
No minimum order applies. You may order a one box or several thousand in any format, with pricing adjusted according to quantity in a written quote issued before production starts.
Which areas of the packaging can be customised?
Size, structure, board weight, print and finish can all be tailored for every format, ensuring the designed packaging meets your brief precisely. A branded packaging order can also be printed on both the interior and outside.
Can we see samples of your parcel products before confirming an order?
Yes. Your sample arrives printed and finished exactly as it would be in production, allowing you to check that the colours are in line with your brief and the board feels right before authorising a larger order.
Is the packaging recyclable and can it be biodegradable?
Each box is fully recyclable. We steer clear of plastic laminates that prevent recycling, unless food safety makes them essential, while biodegradable protective materials are provided wherever the format permits.
Can someone make the same design order again?
Yes, repeat orders continue using the same artwork file, which means you can increase quantities or prepare packaging for a new season without redesigning everything from scratch.
Obtain a no-cost quote from our Custom Pack Studio experts right away
Please telephone 01294 314 919 or email contact@custompackstudio.co.uk, providing your product details, packaging requirements and anticipated quantities.
Order precisely what you need, with no minimum quantity! Each project comes with design support, and all custom packaging made here is designed around your product instead of relying on a template.
Begin your enquiry, and we will respond with a written quotation.
