WSUK supplies businesses in Brighton with the packaging they get through every week: trade quantities, specified line lists, bespoke and printed options, and stock held ready for call-off.
As a packaging company serving Brighton, WSUK specifies packaging against the product and the journey, supplies it in bulk, and holds it centrally so BN1-BN3 businesses call it off instead of storing a full print run themselves.
Most Brighton accounts settle into a standing schedule: agreed lines, agreed quantities, agreed delivery frequency. Reordering stops being a job somebody has to remember.
Where a standard box is costing more in fill, carriage and damage than a bespoke one would cost outright, we say so - and make it to size. Print goes on at the same time, so the outer earns its keep.
Digital and creative, tourism and hospitality, retail and e-commerce. Each fails differently in transit, so each gets its own specification rather than one house standard spread across a mixed range.
Brighton is not short of businesses that despatch goods. Moulsecoomb, Newhaven port estate and Victoria Business Park, Burgess Hill between them cover manufacturing, distribution and a growing amount of direct-to-consumer work, all served by A23, M23, A27 and A259. The packaging those operations hold has usually accumulated rather than been chosen, which is the problem a packaging company is there to fix.
We hold stock in the Midlands rather than in Brighton, which sounds like a disadvantage and is not. It means a Brighton account can commit to an economic run of printed cartons, have it produced once, and take delivery of a pallet at a time. The alternative - repeated short runs - costs more every single time.
The mix around Brighton runs to digital and creative, tourism and hospitality, retail and e-commerce. What those have in common is that the true cost of their packaging is never the price of the box - it is the space it occupies, the time it takes to pack, the band the carrier prices it in, and what gets damaged. A packaging company that only quotes unit price is answering the wrong question.
The quickest way to get a useful answer for a Brighton operation is to send what you already buy. A line list is ideal; photographs of a packed order and of anything that has arrived broken are nearly as good. We would rather specify against real despatches than against a description of them.
Consistency is worth more to a Brighton account than the last five per cent on a unit price. An agreed specification per SKU group means the same pack every time, which is what makes damage rates comparable month to month and makes a carrier conversation possible at all.
Packaging is also where WSUK's other services join up. The same Brighton account can hold stock with us, have orders picked, packed and despatched from our benches, and never take the packaging onto its own premises at all. That is a choice, not a condition - plenty of Brighton accounts buy packaging and nothing else.
A23, M23, A27 and A259.
About 155 miles / 2 hours 45 from our Lutterworth site.
Digital and creative, tourism and hospitality, retail and e-commerce.
The Brighton estates and nearby places we supply alongside the town itself:
The argument for consolidating Brighton packaging with one supplier is mostly arithmetic: fewer orders, better quantities, one invoice, and a specification that somebody is accountable for.
We will review what a Brighton business currently buys at no cost and with no obligation. What comes back is a written specification per SKU group, a price against it, and an honest note on anything that is not worth changing.
From first email to a specified, priced line list.
Product, quantities and how it travels from Brighton.
Materials and sizes chosen for the product and the journey.
Priced against the specification, with a physical sample on anything bespoke or printed.
Delivered into BN1-BN3, with call-off where the quantities suit.
Packaging company questions from Brighton businesses, answered plainly.
A business-to-business supplier. WSUK specifies, supplies, manufactures bespoke formats and prints packaging for Brighton manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers and distributors, and holds stock centrally so reorders are deliveries rather than lead times.
Trade quantities - by the pallet, bale or box quantity rather than the small packs a cash-and-carry sells. There is no minimum commitment on a Brighton account, but the pricing works properly at commercial volumes.
Sometimes. A product that does not fit a stock box pays for the gap on every despatch, so a made-to-size carton can cost less delivered than a standard box plus fill plus a volumetric surcharge. Where that is not true, we say so.
BN1-BN3 and the wider London and the South East area, including Guildford, Portsmouth and Southampton. Supply is UK-wide from one Midlands stock position, so coverage is not limited to the Midlands.
Six places at once: materials, the warehouse space the packaging occupies, carriage, pack labour, damage and waste. In most Brighton operations the price of the box is the smallest of them, which is why a review looks at all six.
It stays yours. Held in Midlands warehousing against your account, called off into Brighton on request, and visible as a stock position rather than disappearing into a general pool.
Packaging Company is the overview. Each of the services below has its own page for Brighton.
We supply packaging to businesses throughout the UK from Midlands stock. These are the nearest locations with a page of their own – the full list is on the packaging company page.
Fifty-nine pages: 58 product ranges across six material families, each with its specification table, plus the postal, retail, industrial, bespoke and sustainable sections and how an enquiry is specified and quoted.
Tell us what you pack and what you currently buy. We will come back with a specification, a trade price and - on anything bespoke or printed - a physical sample before a single unit is produced.