Daventry businesses get the same thing from WSUK that every trade account does - packaging chosen for the product and the journey, bought at run quantities, and reordered before the shelf is empty.
WSUK supplies Daventry businesses with commercial packaging: standard lines in trade quantities, bespoke cartons made to the product, printed packaging carrying your brand, and stockholding so reorders are deliveries rather than lead times. Delivered into NN11, around 15 minutes from our Lutterworth site.
Most Daventry accounts settle into a standing schedule: agreed lines, agreed quantities, agreed delivery frequency. Reordering stops being a job somebody has to remember.
Standard lines where they do the job, bespoke where they do not. Either way the specification is written down, so nobody in Daventry re-decides the box size every quarter.
Run-quantity pricing without run-quantity storage. The print run is produced once, held on racking that already exists around 15 minutes from our Lutterworth site, and drawn into Daventry as you need it.
Look at what moves through NN11 and you find the same thing as everywhere else, concentrated: outer cases bought on price, mailing bags bought on availability, and tape bought by whoever was closest when it ran out. The estates - DIRFT, Royal Oak Industrial Estate and Drayton Fields - are well served by A5, A45, A361 and M1 (J16–J18); the packaging buying usually is not.
Our holding is in the Midlands Golden Triangle rather than in Daventry itself, around 15 minutes from our Lutterworth site. That is the arrangement that turns a printed-packaging order from a storage problem into a delivery schedule, and it is available to any Daventry account that wants it.
Daventry's commercial base - national distribution, rail freight and 3pl - means we see very different briefs from the same postcode. A wholesaler shipping full pallets needs board strength and strapping; a retailer shipping singles needs the right size band and a pack that survives a conveyor. The specification work is the same discipline applied to different failure modes.
A Daventry enquiry does not need a brief. What you pack, roughly how many, how it travels and what has been failing is enough to specify against, and if the honest answer is that your current packaging is already right, that is what you will get back.
For a Daventry business the real win is that packaging stops being a weekly decision. Agreed lines, agreed quantities, agreed delivery frequency - and the only time anybody thinks about it again is when a product changes or a review finds something better.
Packaging is also where WSUK's other services join up. The same Daventry 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 Daventry accounts buy packaging and nothing else.
A5, A45, A361 and M1 (J16–J18).
Around 15 minutes from our Lutterworth site.
National distribution, rail freight and 3pl.
The Daventry estates and nearby places we supply alongside the town itself:
The argument for consolidating Daventry packaging with one supplier is mostly arithmetic: fewer orders, better quantities, one invoice, and a specification that somebody is accountable for.
A packaging review is not a sales visit. It looks at materials, box sizes, warehouse space, carriage bands, pack time, damage and waste across your Daventry operation together, and reports what it finds - including the lines that are already specified correctly.
From first email to a specified, priced line list.
Product, quantities and how it travels from Daventry.
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 NN11, with call-off where the quantities suit.
Packaging company questions from Daventry businesses, answered plainly.
A supplier. WSUK provides the materials and the specification; if a Daventry business also wants the packing done, that is our fulfilment and pick and pack service and it is bought separately.
Yes. Daventry businesses buy on a trade account with one invoice covering every line - board, bags, tape, fill, film, strapping and pallet consumables - rather than reconciling four suppliers.
Yes, and that is easier when we hold the stock. A Daventry account that calls off from a central holding can change board grade, size or print at the next run without writing off a warehouse full of the old version.
NN11 and the wider Midlands Golden Triangle area, including Northampton, Rugby and Crick. 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 Daventry operations the price of the box is the smallest of them, which is why a review looks at all six.
Yes, and for printed or bespoke lines it is usually the sensible arrangement. You buy the economic run quantity, we hold it in Midlands warehousing, and you call it off into Daventry as you need it.
Packaging Company is the overview. Each of the services below has its own page for Daventry.
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.