How Come a UK Supplier Operates on behalf of Kendal
Tailored Pack Studio is part of KennedySmith (Press) Ltd, a company that has been creating print and packaging in Scotland since 1997.
When you ask about a finish, a material, or a deadline, you are speaking to a person who uses the press every day. They don’t need to send the question on to an overseas factory and hold on for a reply.
Domestic delivery is quick and reliable in a way that overseas orders seldom are.
Most orders are prepared within two to three weeks after you confirm the proof, and once sent, our courier network delivers to Kendal addresses within 1 to 2 working days.
Contrast 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 allow for a delayed container or a customs delay.
If you have an imminent launch date or event deadline, please tell us at the enquiry stage.
We will confirm honestly whether the timeline is realistic, rather than offering a quick turnaround that lets you down.
Personalised Wrapping for Kendal Businesses
The packaging options we provide fit most products, and each is custom made to your dimensions and finished with your branding.
Which packaging format is suitable depends on the way the product is marketed and shipped, so the quickest way to the correct answer is to let know our packaging experts what you are packing.
Retail and Goods Packaging
A custom-printed carton sells the product in-store when nobody from your team is present to explain it.
Reverse tuck-end boxes are well suited to lighter-weight retail goods such as cosmetics, supplements and beauty products, whereas a crash-lock base provides heavier items with a secure floor that will stay intact during transit.
Both branding on every panel, including the inside, so the branding remains visible whatever way the box is stored on a shelf or in a stockroom.
Custom mailer boxes for digital vendors
Kendal’s digital commerce brands are sent out without interruption.
A bespoke mailer box is frequently the only tangible point of contact a customer has with the brand, as there is no in-store visit or in person handover to rely on.
Printed, it helps protect the product through the courier network while helping make the unboxing itself part of your promotional strategy. A correctly fitted box also cuts down on the damage and returns caused by one that is badly sized.
A plain tan outer will help to get the parcel dispatched, but it offers the customer no clue as to who sent it or why it appears like that.
Create a lasting initial impression as soon as your delivery arrives with Custom Pack Studio.
Special and display boxes
Custom gift boxes are essential.
A rigid box with a smooth closure, foil stamping on the lid, or a soft-touch coating changes how a product comes across before it is opened.
It is exactly the point for jewellery, perfume, and boutique food brands, in which the packaging is part of what the customer has paid for.
Foil stamping is the treatment that does the most on a shelf, catching the light in a way flat print never can, while soft-touch coating works more successfully once the box is actually in the customer’s hands, as it feels high-end the moment they pick up it.
Embossing lies in between, creating a logo that can be both seen and felt, and it is particularly well effective on jewellery and perfume boxes, where the surface itself adds to the presentation.
Sleeves and wallets
Not every brand job requires a complete enclosure rebuild.
A custom-printed sleeve fits over an current tray or product, bringing your brand identity without the need to rework the entire pack, which makes this well suited for a brief promotional run or a seasonal variant.
A wallet style box sits neatly around flatter products such as cards or cosmetics sets, while printed inserts help stop loose items shifting inside a larger box during transit.
Fluted containers and parcel cartons
A folding carton will never withstand a long courier journey or a breakable item by itself.
Layered board is designed for that job.
We create corrugated cardboard boxes to bespoke pack sizes and produce them in full colour, so a Kendal brand shipping nationwide gets protection and presentation in one in one solution, much further than a basic double walled box with a sticker added on top.
Domains Our Team Cater To Across Kendal
Kendal’s business portfolio includes beauty and skincare brands, jewellery makers, food producers, corporate offices and e-commerce companies.
Food-and-drink businesses have the most stringent requirements, as safe contact in contact with the product takes priority over any consideration of how the box seems.
This is where our BRC Global Packaging certification at High Hygiene level counts, whether you are a artisan bakery or a wholesale provider. It is the standard that supermarket purchasing teams and local retailers often want to see before they will stock a new product.
Jewels brands commonly gain greater value from their packaging spending than many other sectors.
A solid box with a custom-made insert is often used to house an item worth far more than the box itself, so the presentation needs to match that worth.
Beauty products and fragrance brands depend on protective fittings and high-quality finishes for the same reason. The product itself is compact, so the box does most of the persuading on the shelf.
Subscription businesses need a mailer that arrives via courier network intact.
For a lot of online sellers, the parcel is the only physical contact a customer has with the brand.
There’s no minimum order, any sized quantity
Ask most packaging suppliers for fifty boxes featuring your own design.
You will regularly be asked to return once you are ready to order to 1,000. That is a substantial demand for a Kendal business testing a new product or running a small batch before growing.
We don’t enforce a minimum criteria at all.
Purchase a single sample to check print quality, fifty boxes for a market stall, or several thousand once a retail listing proves demand. The process and pricing structure remain the same at every quantity.
Per-unit price falls as volume rises, which is standard throughout the industry.
Repeat orders utilise the same artwork and setup, so you are not charged twice for the design work.
We confirm the pricing and lead times in writing before production commences, ensuring there is no discrepancy between the quotation and the amount shown on the invoice.
Creative design support on hand whichever stage of progress
You do not need an in house designer to purchase custom packaging here.
If you have a logo and a rough idea of what you want, that is all that is needed to get started. Our team will finalise the box structure, create the print ready artwork and provide you with a proof to approve before anything goes to press.
For a item that does not fit an off the shelf format, structural planning is included in the cost. It is not charged as an added extra.
Files supplied as a JPG or screenshot are rebuilt to proper production specification.
The majority of artwork is delivered without the resolution or bleed that a box truly requires.
Our experts checks colour accuracy, definition and bleed against the press profile before any job goes into production, so the printed result aligns with what you signed off.
A planning appointment is available if you would prefer to go over the options before committing to a plan.
You can equally use our online design tool if you would want to create the artwork yourself.
Recyclable, sustainably sourced materials
Every box we make is entirely recyclable and made from paperboard that carries FSC and PEFC certification. This shows it can be traced via an verified supply chain to a responsibly managed forest.
We’re transitioning away from single use plastic and EPS foam throughout the collection, changing them to paper-based and biodegradable alternatives wherever the format allows. Those materials break down effectively at the end of their life in a way that plastic and foam do not.
If an authentic sustainability claim matters to you and your customers, we can guide you through the many ways your custom packaging makes an impact in helping to cut waste.
Understanding Why Kendal Businesses Pick CustomPack Studio as Their Trusted Packaging Company
A Factory, Beginning from Inception to Finish
Each box we create is cut, printed and finished entirely within our Irvine factory.
A single team oversees quality through every stage, rather than the work being passed from one subcontractor to another.
A colour that appears accurate on screen will not always reproduce the same way, and the person checking it is the one operating the press.
Any problems are identified and corrected before a box reaches despatch, by the same team that first noticed the issue.
The board and the ink also come from the same trusted suppliers repeatedly, so a colour that matched your original proof still matches with your fifth reorder two years down the line.
Supported by nearly thirty years in printing and packaging
Custom Pack Studio launched in 2025, yet the supporting factory has a much longer history.
We are members of KennedySmith (Press) Ltd, a leading print and packaging manufacturer using presses since 1997.
That history has given us established relationships with board mills and material suppliers. It also means we have a team that has already navigated the majority of the challenges a new packaging order can bring.
That unfolds in nuanced manners, such as understanding which board weight will endure a courier journey.
It is also why we can deal with a delicate perfume box and a heavy duty shipping carton in the same week, with presses that have handled both for many years.
Designated contact throughout the purchase
You will be taken care of by the very same person from your original contact right through to the finished handover.
There is no handoff between your sales team and a separate production department.
They comprehend your specification, your deadline and what you asked for at the proofing stage, so you do not need to keep repeating yourself at every stage.
When a material is on back order or a finish needs reviewing, you will receive this personally from the person handling your job.
It furthermore means you will not ever have to re-explain your order from the start to a new person partway through production.
You can contact that person straight away by telephone, email or text, without needing to go through a general enquiries inbox first.
This very same method no matter the quantity
A single sample and a five thousand unit reorder are subjected to the same proofing and quality checks before either departs the factory.
No job is rushed just because the run is small, and no job is given additional inspection just because it is big.
A Kendal business trialling a new product is given the same treatment as one reordering for a national retail listing. The process stays unchanged irrespective of the order size.
That uniformity counts considerably more than the cost saving from a larger run, because a inconsistent run eventually costs additional to correct than it saved you in per-unit cost.
Whether that is 50 units for a market trial or several thousand for a retail rollout, the proofing sign off functions in the same way each time.
Receive a complimentary estimate for custom packaging in Kendal
Please call 01294 314 919 or email contact@custompackstudio.co.uk. Tell us what you are packing, approximately how many units you require, and how the product is distributed or shipped. We will then issue a written quotation with no obligation to place an order.
Not quite ready to commit to a full run? Order a physical sample first, free of charge. You’ll see exactly how the colour appears in natural light and how a soft touch finish feels in your hand, rather than relying on a screen.
Our design assistance is available at all times when required, there’s no minimum order, and every box is tailored around your product, not picked from a shelf of pre-made templates.
We make everything in-house and supply to Kendal and across the UK from our own premises in Irvine. Browse our full selection of packaging products or contact the team to get started.
