Why opt for choose customised packaging
A standard box leaves room around the product, making it rattle in transit until foam or paper is added to stop movement.
Standard packaging with a side sticker is the simplest approach, but it serves no specific customer.
Custom Pack Studio creates bespoke packaging customised for your product, making sure the box, print and finish support your brand rather than overshadowing it.
We produce bespoke boxes, mailer boxes, gift packaging and printed accessories for companies across St Julian’s and surrounding valleys, with orders varying from one sample to a pallet delivered directly to a warehouse door.
We impose no minimum order for anything we produce, so you avoid stock and storage costs until a product demonstrates that it sells.
Tell us your packaging requirements, and we’ll tailor the recommendation to suit the product perfectly.
What custom packaging involves
Custom packaging creates the box around your product from the beginning, so its size and printing reflect exactly what you are packing.
You choose the measurements, so that a custom-sized box holds the product securely rather than allowing it to rattle within excess space created by a generic size.
Every element, from the structure and board weight to the print and finish, is adapted to the contents and their journey.
Printing your logo on a stock box results in personalised packaging, involving less work than a fully customisable design.
With tailored packaging, every panel, fold and finish can be adjusted, even for just one unit, allowing you to create custom packaging that fits exactly.
Packing formats we make for St Julian’s companies
We make a full range of packaging boxes to custom sizes, printed in full colour using your artwork.
Selecting the suitable box style and packaging format is based on what you sell and how it is handled, while our packaging specialists can guide you through the available options.
Shop cartons and tailor-made brand packaging
Reverse tuck end cartons are a popular choice for retail packaging, ideal for low-weight products like cosmetics and supplements, with flaps that fold inwards at both the upper end and lower end.
Crash lock boxes are a kind of lock box, providing a stronger cardboard design with a base that snaps flat when opened, preventing heavier products from pushing the bottom out.
Postal and online retail boxes
A bespoke mailer box safeguards your product throughout the courier network and turns delivery into part of the brand experience and visibility, with printing on the inside and outside rather than only across the outer face.
Gusseted versions of these custom printed boxes provide additional depth, giving bulkier items space to sit securely without shifting.
Gift packages, rigid boxes and gable packages
Rigid boxes, gift boxes with magnetic closures and additional branded boxes give presents a refined presentation customers anticipate, without them needing to wrap anything themselves.
Gable boxes with folding carry handles are suitable for food gifts as well as hampers.
For premium ranges, we may select SBS board, solid bleached sulphate and a bright, food safe paperboard, over standard carton stock, while foil and soft touch lamination enhance the finished effect.
Develop assistance for your St Julian’s identity
Each order includes packaging design support, irrespective of how far your artwork has progressed.
If you’ve got a logo and brand guidelines, our design specialists prepare print-ready files and confirm that colours are reproduced accurately on board, as packaging requires greater resolution than website imagery.
You do not need any prior experience in design to develop packaging that reflects your brand. Our team can begin with only a logo. Working together, you will determine the structure and produce professionally designed, print ready artwork, while we explain every technical decision as it arises.
Our digital design tool allows you to customise a box and view its appearance on screen before printing begins. Pantone colour matching is available too, helping every repeat order stay consistent.
If packaging is needed in both English and Welsh, our team regards this as a standard artwork requirement, handling it precisely as it would any other language or colour change.
Bespoke packaging for St Julian’s’s industries
Food and drink
Welsh Lamb and Welsh Beef each hold Protected Geographical Indication status, whereas packaging in contact with meat or dairy must meet food contact standards, irrespective of which side of the border it is made on.
We have 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.
Drinks and spirit producers
During the last twenty years, Wales has built up a flourishing drinks industry, spanning Brecon Beacons distilleries and more recent gin and whisky producers in the north.
Bottle presentation boxes must endure transit while maintaining their visual appeal on the shelf, with finishes including foil stamping and embossing delivering much of the impact required for limited releases and seasonal gift sets.
Cosmetics and aesthetics
Cosmetic and skincare brands require cartons that protect delicate glass and compacts while being prominent on the shelf.
We create cosmetics packaging featuring soft touch lamination, foil and embossing, while rigid boxes make a premium range seem worthy of its higher price point.
E-commerce and membership labels
Retail ready and display packaging serves a purpose when products occupy shop shelves or marketplace fulfilment centres, but subscription brands encounter an wholly different challenge.
As the same customer opens an nearly identical box each month, maintaining a consistent finish is equally important as the original design.
Packaging designed to fit your product’s exact dimensions holds items securely in transit, reducing damage claims and returns from ecommerce orders.
A fitted insert or printed tissue prevents the product from shifting during transport, while ensuring the print is straight away visible when the box is opened.
For a subscription brand placing repeat orders each month, maintaining consistent box dimensions makes pallet space and warehouse racking consistent, an increasingly important factor as volumes exceed a few hundred units.
Dispatching to St Julian’s from our Scotland plant
Everything is made at our Irvine facility, with UK delivery to companies in St Julian’s provided by default.
Most orders reach a St Julian’s address within two to three weeks following proof approval, following the same schedule as our packaging across the UK.
Custom Pack Studio is part of KennedySmith (Press) Ltd, an established packaging manufacturer creating print and packaging since 1997, where an experienced team produces boxes using its own presses.
You will review a proof and, where the format calls for it, a physical sample before full production begins. Repeat orders use the same artwork, so scaling up never means starting from scratch!
Working with one box company for packaging throughout your whole product line makes everything uncomplicated.
You have one invoice and a single contact, avoiding the need to chase several suppliers quoting different prices for different weeks.
Sustainable packaging as standard
Each box we create is completely recyclable, with that recyclability inherent in the board itself.
Our board and paper are sourced from FSC and PEFC certified suppliers, with each sheet traced through an audited supply chain to responsibly managed forests.
We are cutting down on single use plastic and EPS foam void fill across our processes because neither is readily recyclable, causing disposal difficulties once a parcel is opened.
When the design permits, biodegradable or paper-based protection replaces them instead.
No minimum minimum purchase requirement for St Julian’s companies
Throughout much of the industry, custom packaging requires minimum orders of 500 or 1,000 units, obliging you to fund stock and storage prior to determining whether a product will sell.
We do not have a minimum order requirement.
Small businesses can begin with a single sample, place a limited trial run, or move to full production once demand is established, while unit pricing scales across each quantity in between.
You will always 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 supplied for a run of ten thousand.
Before placing a large order, obtain a printed sample to evaluate its print, colour and its fit in your hand.
The process to place a tailored packaging order
Send 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 develop packaging suited to your product, prepare the print layout, and send a proof for you to review.
Ask for a physical sample if the format needs one, then sign off once you are satisfied with the colour and construction.
Production and delivery. Your order is printed and completed in Irvine prior to being delivered to your St Julian’s address, usually within two to three weeks.
Custom packaging St Julian’s Q&A
Do you all offer custom packaging shipment to St Julian’s?
Yes. We produce all items in Irvine and offer standard delivery throughout the UK, including every part of St Julian’s and Wales, without an extra charge simply because of the distance from our factory.
What exactly is could be the basic package requirement for St Julian’s?
There is no minimum order is required. You can request one box or several thousand in any format, with pricing set according to quantity in a written quote provided before production starts.
Which elements of the packaging can be personalised?
Every format allows you complete flexibility to change the size, structure, board weight, print and finish, ensuring the resulting packaging matches your brief exactly. Your branded packaging order can also be printed on the inside as well as the exterior.
Could I obtain examples of your packaging materials before placing an order?
Yes. You get a sample printed and finished exactly as it would be in production, enabling you to check that the colours satisfy your brief and the board feels suitable before approving a bulk order.
Is the wrapping recyclable and environmentally friendly?
All packaging boxes are fully recyclable. We exclude plastic laminates that prevent recycling, except where food safety requires them, while biodegradable protective materials are made available when the format permits.
Can someone make the very same St Julian’s design order once more?
Yes, reorders use the same artwork file, so increasing an order or repeating it for a new season doesn’t require the packaging to be redesigned from scratch.
Seek a cost-free estimate from your Custom Pack Studio experts right away.
Call 01294 314 919 or email contact@custompackstudio.co.uk, providing your product, packaging requirements and intended quantities.
There is no minimum order requirement, design support is part of every project, and each item of custom packaging made here is designed around your product rather than a conventional template.
Start your enquiry, and we will respond with a written quotation.
