Motives opt for bespoke packaging
A regular box leaves room around the product, enabling it to rattle during transit until someone packs the gaps with foam or paper to keep it in place.
Standard packaging with a sticker affixed is the simple choice, but it has not been designed specifically for anyone.
Custom Pack Studio creates bespoke packaging customised for your product, ensuring the box, print and finish reinforce your brand rather than overshadowing it.
We create custom boxes, mailer boxes, gift packaging and printed accessories for companies throughout St Fagans and the valleys beyond. Orders can be as small as one sample or as large as a pallet delivered straight to your 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 specifications, and we will adapt the recommendation to the product.
What bespoke packaging signifies
Custom packaging designs the box around your product from the beginning, so its size and printing reflect exactly what you are packing.
By selecting the dimensions, you make sure that a custom sized box holds the product firmly, rather than allowing it to rattle within the unnecessary space of a standard size.
Every element, from the structure and board weight to the print and finish, is adapted to the contents and their journey.
Printing a logo on a stock box produces personalised packaging, representing a less substantial undertaking than a fully customisable design.
With customised packaging, you are able to change every panel, fold and finish, even with a single run, creating packaging that fits without compromise.
Packaging types we make for St Fagans ventures
We create a full range of packaging boxes, made to bespoke sizes and printed in full colour using your artwork!
Selecting the most suitable box style and packaging format is based on your products and their handling requirements, which our packaging experts will explain clearly.
Retail cartons and custom brand packaging
Reverse tuck end cartons are a retail packaging staple, designed for lighter products such as cosmetics and supplements, with flaps that tuck securely inside at both the top and bottom.
Crash lock boxes are a sturdier kind of lock box, constructed from cardboard with a base that snaps flat when opened, ensuring heavier products cannot force the bottom out.
Parcel and online shopping boxes
A custom mailer box protects your product across the courier network, while making delivery into part of the brand experience and boosting visibility through printing on both its interior and exterior, not solely its outer face.
Gusseted versions of these custom printed boxes provide extra depth, giving bulkier items space to sit securely without shifting.
Present boxes, sturdy boxes and pitched-roof packages
Rigid boxes, gift boxes with magnetic closures and other branded boxes give products bought as presents the polished presentation customers anticipate, without customers needing to wrap them.
Gable boxes, featuring a fold up carry handle, are excellent for food gifts and hampers!
For premium ranges, we sometimes specify SBS board, solid bleached sulphate, a bright, food-safe paperboard, instead of standard carton stock. Finishes including foil and soft touch lamination enhance the overall effect.
Design help for your St Fagans business
Each order includes packaging design support, irrespective of the stage your artwork has reached.
If you have a logo and brand guidelines, our design experts create print-ready files and check that colours are reproduced accurately on board, as packaging requires higher resolution than website imagery.
You don’t need design experience to create packaging that fits your brand. Our team can start with just a logo. Together, they create the structure and expertly crafted print ready artwork, while guiding you through each technical decision throughout the process.
Our online tool allows you to customise a box and view its appearance before printing. Pantone colour matching keeps each repeat order consistent.
If packaging is needed in both English and Welsh, our team treats this as a standard artwork requirement, managing it exactly as it would any other language or colour change.
Bespoke packaging for St Fagans’s industries
Food and refreshments
Welsh Lamb and Welsh Beef both have Protected Geographical Indication status, whilst all packaging that is in contact with meat or dairy must satisfy food contact requirements, irrespective of which side of the border it is manufactured.
We hold BRC Global Packaging certification at High Hygiene level, ensuring our food packaging is made in controlled, traceable conditions that retailers review before stocking products onto their shelves.
Drinks and spirit-making
During the past two decades, Wales has developed a authentic drinks scene, from distilleries in Brecon Beacons to more recent gin and whisky producers further north.
Presentation boxes for bottles must withstand transit while staying eye-catching on the shelf, with finishes such as foil stamping and embossing bringing much of the impact to a limited release or seasonal gift set.
Skincare products and skincare essentials
Cosmetic and skincare brands require cartons that safeguard delicate glass and compacts while being prominent on the shelf.
We produce cosmetics packaging with soft touch lamination, foil and embossing, whereas rigid boxes suit premium ranges requiring a higher price point to be justified.
E-commerce and recurring labels
Retail ready and display packaging matter when products are held in shops or marketplace fulfilment centres, whereas subscription brands encounter a distinct challenge.
The same customer opens an almost identical box each month, which makes 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 cutting damage claims and returns.
A fitted insert or printed tissue prevents the product from moving during transport, while making sure the print is instantly visible when the box is opened.
Subscription-based brands that reorder each month can maintain pallet space and warehouse racking uniform by retaining one box size. This becomes increasingly important when order volumes exceed several hundred units.
Sending to St Fagans from our Scottish workshop
Everything is produced at our Irvine facility, with delivery across the UK to businesses in St Fagans provided as standard.
After your proof is approved, the majority of orders arrive at a St Fagans address within two to three weeks, matching the delivery timeframe for our packaging across the UK.
Custom Pack Studio belongs to KennedySmith (Press) Ltd, an established packaging manufacturer producing print and packaging since 1997. Its experienced team produces the boxes on its own presses!
Prior to the start of full production, you get a proof and, where the format requires it, a physical sample, as reorders retain the same artwork, rendering expansion wonderfully straightforward.
Using a one box company for packaging across your whole product range simplifies the process.
You get a single invoice and work via a sole point of contact, instead of chasing multiple suppliers, each quoting different prices for separate weeks.
Ethical packaging by default setting
Each box we make is entirely recyclable, because of the board it is made from.
Our board and paper are sourced from FSC and PEFC certified sources, whilst an audited supply chain traces every sheet back to responsibly managed forests.
We are reducing single use plastic and EPS foam void fill throughout our processes because neither is easily recyclable, and both create disposal issues once a parcel is opened.
Where the design allows, biodegradable or paper-based protection replaces them.
Absolutely no minimum purchase for St Fagans companies.
Throughout the industry, custom packaging often requires minimum orders of 500 or 1,000 units, forcing you to fund stock and storage before knowing if a product will sell.
There is no minimum order requirement.
Small businesses may order a single sample, limited runs for testing, or a full production run once demand has been established, with the unit price scaling according to the quantity ordered.
You will consistently receive a written quotation prior to production commencing, while the high quality materials and packaging products provided for a run of fifty are identical to the ones provided for a run of ten thousand.
Prior to placing a large order, ask for a physical sample to evaluate its printing, colour and how it fits in your hand.
Steps on how to obtain bespoke parcel materials
Provide your brief! Phone 01294 314 919 or use the online design tool, then let us know the product, quantity and roughly how it is sold.
Design and proof. We create packaging that fits your product, prepare the print layout, and then send you a proof to check.
Request a physical sample if the format requires one. Approve it when you are satisfied with the colour and construction.
Production and delivery. Your order is printed and finished in Irvine, then delivered to your St Fagans address, generally within two to three weeks.
Personalised packaging St Fagans Frequently Asked Questions
Could you furnish bespoke packaging to St Fagans?
Yes. We manufacture each product in Irvine, then deliver throughout the UK as standard, extending to every corner of St Fagans and all of Wales without applying a additional fee because the destination lies further from our factory.
What is the smallest order to place packaging from St Fagans?
No minimum order! Select a single box or several thousand in any format, with prices calculated according to quantity in a written quotation before production begins.
Which packing components can I personalise?
Size, structure, board weight, print and finish can all be customised for every format, making sure the designed packaging fulfils your brief exactly. A branded packaging order can also be printed on both the interior and exterior.
Can you provide demonstrations of your packing items before I place an order?
Yes. You get a sample printed and finished precisely as it would be in production, enabling you to check that the colours satisfy your brief and the board seems suitable before authorising a bulk order.
Is the container recyclable and biodegradable?
All packaging boxes are fully recyclable. We omit plastic laminates that prevent recycling, except where food safety makes them necessary, while biodegradable protective materials are made available when the format permits.
May I reorder the same design in the future?
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 the beginning.
Get a free pricing from Custom Package Studio right away.
Share your product, packaging requirements and anticipated quantities by calling 01294 314 919 or emailing contact@custompackstudio.co.uk.
No minimum order applies, design guidance is provided with each project, and each item of custom packaging produced here is developed around your product rather than a standard template.
Make your enquiry, and we will come back with a written quotation.
