Discovering Why a United Kingdom Maker Provides services for Horwich
Custom Pack Studio is part of KennedySmith (Press) Ltd, a company that has been manufacturing print and packaging in Scotland since 1997.
When you raise questions about a finish, a material, or a deadline, you are speaking to a person who uses the press every day. They do not need to send the question on to an overseas factory and await a reply.
UK to UK delivery is fast and reliable in a way an order from abroad seldom is.
The majority of orders are prepared within 2 to 3 weeks after you sign off on the proof, and once sent out, our courier network serves Horwich addresses in 1 to 2 working days.
Compare that with the usual eight to twelve week baseline lead time for packaging brought in from the EU or the Far East, before you even take into account a delayed container or a customs delay.
For a major launch date or event deadline, let us know at the enquiry stage.
We can confirm openly if the timeframe works, instead of making a quick turnaround that lets you down.
Personalised Packing Solutions for Horwich Companies
The box formats we provide are suitable for most products, and each one is manufactured to your dimensions and printed with your branding.
Which format fits depends on how the product is sold and delivered, so the quickest way to get the right answer is by letting our packaging experts exactly what you are packing.
Shop and merchandise packaging
A custom-printed carton does the marketing on the shelf when no member of your team is there to present the product.
Reverse tuck-end boxes are well suited to lighter-weight retail goods such as cosmetics, supplements and beauty products, whereas a crash-lock base offers heavier items with a firm floor that will not collapse during transit.
Both prints across every panel, covering the inside, so the branding stays in view whatever way the box ends up placed on a shelf or in a stockroom.
Packaging boxes for online retailers
Horwich’s online retail brands send out items constantly.
A tailored mailer box is often the only physical interaction a customer has with a brand, as there is no shop visit or face-to-face handover to rely on.
Printed on the inside and out, it protects the product through the courier network while turning the unboxing itself part of your promotional strategy. A properly fitted box also helps reduce the damage and returns caused by one that is badly sized.
A simple plain-coloured outer can get the parcel delivered, but it does not reveal the customer anything about where it came from or why it looks that way.
Make a lasting impact from the moment it is delivered with Custom Pack Studio.
Luxury and Gift Boxes
Custom gift boxes can make a noticeable difference.
A rigid box with an effortless closure, foil stamping on the lid, or a matte coating changes the way a product feels before it is even opened.
It is exactly the case for jewellery, perfume and boutique food brands, where the packaging makes part of what the customer has purchased.
Foil stamping is the final touch that does the most work on a shelf, catching the light in a way flat printing never can, while soft-touch coating works better once the box is actually in someone’s hands, as it feels high-end the moment they handle it.
Raised print falls between the two, positioning a logo you can simultaneously view and feel, and it works especially well on jewellery and perfume boxes, where the surface itself becomes part of the display.
Sleeves and wallets
Not every brand initiative needs a complete box rebuild.
A branded sleeve slides over an existing tray or product, including your branding without the need to rework the entire pack, making it ideal for a short promotional run or a seasonal variant.
A wallet style box wraps around flat products such as cards or cosmetics sets, and custom printed inserts hold loose contents from shifting inside a larger box during delivery.
Cardboard boxes and delivery boxes
A folding carton will not withstand a long courier journey or a delicate item by itself.
Fluted board has been designed for this purpose.
We create corrugated cardboard boxes to bespoke pack sizes and print them in full colour, so a Horwich brand shipping nationwide gets secure packaging and visual branding built into one format, well beyond a plain double walled box with a sticker affixed on top.
Fields Which We Support Covering Horwich
Horwich’s company portfolio of businesses includes beauty and skincare labels, jewellery brands, food manufacturers, corporate offices, and e-commerce companies.
Food and drink businesses have the strictest requirements, as contact safety in contact with the product takes priority over any regard of how the box seems.
That is where our BRC Global Packaging certification at High Hygiene level really makes a difference, whether you are a small bakery or a wholesale provider. It is the criterion that supermarket purchasing teams and independent stores typically want to see before stocking a new product.
Jewellery brands often derive more from their packaging outlay than many other sectors.
A rigid box with a custom-fitted insert is usually carrying an item worth much more than the box itself, so the presentation has to live up to that worth.
Beauty products and fragrance brands depend on protective fittings and high-quality finishes for much the same reason. It is small, so the box does most of the persuading on a shelf.
Online retail and recurring businesses require a mailer that arrives through the courier network undamaged.
For a lot of online retailers, the parcel is the single physical point of contact a customer has with the company.
No Minimum Order!Whatever Quantity Accepted
Request many packaging suppliers for 50 boxes branded with your own design on them.
You may often be requested to return only once you are prepared to commit to to 500 or 1,000. For a Horwich business trialling a new product or testing a small batch before scaling, that is a significant commitment.
We do not apply a minimum requirement in any way.
Order a one sample to assess print quality, fifty boxes for a market stall, or many thousands once a retail listing verifies demand. The procedure and pricing structure stay unchanged at every quantity.
Unit price falls as quantity goes up, which is typical throughout the packaging sector.
Subsequent orders have the identical artwork and configuration, so you are never charged twice for the design cost.
We confirm pricing and lead time in writing before production begins, so there will be no gap between the quotation and what is shown on the invoice.
Custom branding support offered, whatever stage of your journey.
You don’t need a designer on staff to place a custom packaging order here.
If you have a logo and a basic idea of what you want, that is sufficient to get started. Our team will work out the box structure, prepare the print ready artwork and provide a proof for your approval before anything goes to press.
When a product does not work with an off-the-shelf format, structural design is included in the price. It is not added as an additional extra.
Artwork sent as a screenshot are rebuilt to the correct print specification.
The majority of artwork arrives lacking the image resolution or bleed that a box genuinely requires.
Our staff checks colour accuracy, resolution and bleed against the press profile before anything enters production, so the finished print aligns with what you confirmed.
A design consultation is provided should you choose to discuss the choices before proceeding to a brief.
You can also use our own digital design tool if you would like to make the artwork yourself.
Eco-friendly, ethically sourced materials
Every carton we make is entirely recyclable and made from board certified by FSC and PEFC. This shows it can be traced through an checked supply chain back to a responsibly managed forest.
We are gradually removing single-use plastic and EPS foam across the range, swapping them with paper based and compostable alternatives wherever the format permits. They break down properly at the end of their life in a way that plastic and foam do not.
If a genuine sustainability claim counts for you and your customers, we can help navigate the many ways your custom packaging can make a difference in reducing waste.
Reasons Horwich Businesses Pick CustomPack Studio as Their Packaging Vendor
1 Factory from Inception to Finish
Every carton we produce is trimmed, produced and finished under one roof at our Irvine factory.
The same team oversees quality throughout every stage, instead of the work being handed from one subcontractor to another.
A colour that appears correct on screen does not always print identically, and the person verifying it is the one operating the press.
Issues are detected and fixed before a box reaches despatch, by the same team that identified the issue in the first place.
Board and ink also come from the same suppliers time after time time after time, so a colour that matched your initial proof still matches your fifth reorder two years later.
Backed by nearly three decades in the print and packaging industry
Custom Pack Studio was launched in 2025, but the facility that drives it dates back much further.
We are part of the team at KennedySmith (Press) Ltd, a trusted print and packaging manufacturer that has used presses since 1997.
That history gives us excellent relationships with board mills and material suppliers. It also means a team that has already handled many of the issues a new packaging order can raise.
It happens in small manners, such as knowing which board weight will withstand a courier journey.
It is equally why we can deal with a fragile perfume box and a sturdy shipping carton in the same week, using presses that have been handling both for a number of years.
One dedicated contact during the whole order
You will be dealing with the very same person from your first enquiry right through to the last delivery.
There is no transfer between your sales department and a separate production team.
The team understand your brief, your timescale and what you asked for at the review stage, so you do not need to repeat yourself at every stage.
If a material is temporarily out of stock or a finish needs reviewing, you will receive a direct update from the person managing your job.
It in addition means you never have to explain your order from scratch to someone new partway through the process.
You can reach that person directly by telephone, email or message, without needing to go through a general enquiries inbox first.
That exact process, irrespective of quantity
A one sample and a 5000 unit reorder undergo the same proofing and quality checks before both leaves the factory.
Nothing is hurried along just because the run is small, and no thing is given extra scrutiny simply because it is large.
A Horwich organisation testing a new product receives the same level as one making a reorder for a national retail listing. The process does not change depending on the order size.
This uniformity matters more than any saving on a bigger run, since a mismatched batch costs extra to fix than it saved in unit price.
Whether it is fifty units for the market test or several thousand for a retail rollout, the proofing sign off operates in the same way every time.
Receive a no-cost quotation for tailor-made packaging in Horwich
Call 01294 314 919 or email contact@custompackstudio.co.uk. Tell us what you are packing, approximately how many you need, and how the product is marketed or delivered. We will respond with a written quote and no obligation to order.
Unsure about committing to a complete order? Ask for a physical sample first, free of cost. You will experience precisely how the colour appears in everyday light and how a soft-touch finish feels in your hand, rather than relying on a screen.
Help with design support is always available whenever you need it, there is no minimum order to satisfy, and every box is made to suit your product, rather than taken from a shelf of templates.
We manufacture everything internally and deliver to Horwich and across the UK from our own factory in Irvine. Browse our full assortment of packaging products or contact the team to get started.
