Custom Gift Boxes for Global Brands

Yes — this is the main reason brands come to us for gift packaging. Box, insert, ribbon, card, sleeve, matching bag and shipping carton are made in one factory, on one order, and finished together. You get one delivery date instead of five, and everything is matched to the same approved colour standard.

Yes. Many gift programmes start with a reference image and a rough size. Our team helps settle the structure and prepares print-ready artwork before we move to a sample.

We sign a confidentiality agreement (NDA) before reviewing anything, confirm in writing who owns the setup tools, and run one season alongside your current supplier before you move the whole programme.

It depends on the product, the quantity and how the gift reaches the person receiving it. See the table above for a starting point, then send us your product dimensions so we can confirm it. A magnetic box makes the best opening; a lid and base box costs less at the same size; a collapsible box is cheapest to ship on a large run.

Yes. We match your brand colour (Pantone) rather than approximating it in four-colour print, and we work to a colour tolerance of ΔE ≤ 1.5 against the sample you approved. Different materials do take colour differently — a ribbon will never look identical to coated paper — so we match them together at sample stage rather than one at a time.

It depends on the finishes you pick. Board and paper printed with water-based ink and a water-based coating (aqueous coating) add no plastic layer, and a moulded pulp insert recycles with the box. Hot foil stamping, soft-touch film and anti-scratch film all do add plastic. Tell us at the brief stage if a plastic-free build matters for your sustainability claims and we will build the finish list around it.

We choose the insert around what is going in the box and how far it travels, then check it with a standard shipping-damage test (ISTA 2A) that copies real transport conditions. For fragile glass we normally recommend a moulded pulp or foam insert rather than loose filler.

The sample stage is 3–10 days and production is 20–25 days for runs of 5,000 to 50,000 units. Sea freight is on top of that, roughly 3–4 weeks to the US West Coast and 4–6 weeks to Europe as an estimate to confirm with your freight forwarder. As a rule of thumb, allow about 14 weeks from locking your box details to having boxes in market.

If the boxes need to be in market in early November, lock your box details by early August. Leaving it later is still possible, but the options narrow to simplifying the finish, splitting the shipment, or paying for air freight.

Yes, and it is worth planning around. Factories across China close for roughly two to three weeks, and the month before the holiday is the busiest of the year for both production slots and container space. If your order has to ship before the break, say so when you request a quote and we will confirm a production slot in writing.

Yes. If you run the same gift programme every year, tell us your target ship window ahead of the season and we will hold a production slot for it. We also keep a physical sample from every batch, so a repeat order is checked against the boxes you actually approved rather than a spec sheet.

Order quantity is the biggest lever, and the cost per box falls sharply between 5,000 and 20,000 units. After that, the usual moves are to reduce the number of finishing passes, switch from a foam insert to a printed card divider, or move from a rigid box to a collapsible one so you pay to ship boxes rather than air.

There is a sample fee, and it is refunded in full if you place a production order. We quote it separately from the box price so you can see exactly what it covers.

Yes. We support DDP (all shipping costs in one price) and FOB (you arrange shipping from our port), provide full export documents, and can split one production run across several delivery addresses — useful when a gift programme goes to more than one region or distribution centre.