Prepare your products for the festive season with our collection of Christmas packaging. From decorative metal tins and premium gift boxes to glass jars, and cardboard tubes our stock packaging offers versatile options for seasonal product ranges, gift sets and Christmas promotions. Discover packaging suitable for confectionery, candles, cosmetics, food products, corporate gifts and much more.
Christmas Packaging
Popular Christmas Packaging Possibilities
Our range of festive seasonal gift packaging is designed to support makers, retailers, and growing brands looking for reliable, attractive gift packaging solutions for seasonal launches, promotions, and gifting collections.
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Elevate the unboxing experience with magnetic gift boxes. The perfect choice for seasonal gift sets from a selection of wellness products to chocolates and even a mix of candles. Decorate the interior with your choice of tissue paper and similar materials to create a packaging presentation, unique to your brand and store.
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Food-safe and durable, metal tins are the ideal choice for chocolates and biscuits from shortbread treats to the classic mince pies. Our window tins will beautifully showcase the tantalizing treats and encourage a purchase.
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Candle sales hit their peak through autumn with customers eager to fill their home with the sweet scents of pine and peppermint. Create sales-ready candles with both coloured metal tins or glass jars. Our wholesale empty glass jars are ideal for customisation with a smooth surface, perfect for adding your choice of label for theming or branding.
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Aluminium tins and glass screw lid jars provide a beautiful and practical choice for beauty and skincare products from creams to self-care items. Perfect for balms and soap, they will help your business present products in a professional light and gain attention on shop shelves. Both the glass jars and aluminium tins have a PE liner in the lid, providing a water-tight seal, preventing leakages or spills.
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Cardboard boxes provide more than just protection for your glass candle jars, bottles or tins. Instead, our cylindrical and square presentation boxes provide an additional piece of the packaging puzzle, adding wonder and surprise to any product. This is ideal during the build up to Christmas where customers are searching for products with more than meets the eye.
Planning For The Festive Season
Incentivised by a cost of living crisis and other socio-economic concerns, customers are buying their festive gifts earlier than before. Approximately 50% of UK and EU consumers start their holiday shopping in October while 10-12% buy in July or even earlier! High costs has also pushed customers towards purchasing gifts from smaller stores rather than massive outlets with 1 in 5 households opting for boutique stores during their festive shop. With careful planning, you can easily capitalise on this opportunity through your business.
Prepare and Purchase
Order packaging for your products two to three months before the biggest seasonal rush. For stock packaging, this means purchasing in September, ready for both Christmas, festive celebrations and of course, Black Friday.
Are you considering bespoke packaging for your biggest festive seller? If so, you'll need to begin the process at the same time to be festive sales ready the following year. While it shouldn't take a full year to design and manufacture festive packaging, this will provide plenty of time for amendments to get the packaging just right - with the help of our skilled design team.
Focus On Top and Bottom Sellers
It’s important to research your products and find out which ones are going to be big seasonal choices for your customers. This is particularly important if you’re planning on investing in bespoke packaging. You need to make sure that you achieve the greatest return on your investment. Consider bundling items to create gift sets that feel unique, fresh and highly valuable to customers during winter shopping. You can use A5 gift boxes to create wellness sets, candle collections or a wonderful selection of sweets and chocolates.
As well as noting down your biggest sellers, winter also provides an opportunity to boost the sales of products that are lagging behind. 52% of shoppers use Black Friday to tick items off their Christmas shopping list with average spending £262 - £430 across the Black Friday/Cyber Monday sales period. During this time, customers are conditioned to hunt for great deals. Even a slight drop in price can cause a huge surge in sales for a product that doesn’t garner much interest throughout the rest of the year.
Choose Sales-Ready Packaging
It’s said that packaging is the silent salesperson. However, during the festive sales season it acts more like a man with a megaphone. Why is this? During the Christmas period, the importance of the right packaging is heightened because it forms part of the gift that’s going to be placed under the tree and that ever-crucial unboxing experience. Packaging can help create magical moments when loved ones open their presents on Christmas morning and customers know this. Select packaging that triggers an emotional connection or sensory experience and you’re one step closer to a successful sale.
Christmas Packaging FAQs
Measure your product at its widest and tallest points, including any lids or wrapping. For gift boxes, compare these measurements with the internal dimensions and allow room for inserts or protective material. We always recommend that you order a sample to check both the fit and the presentation before you place a large order.
Yes you can certainly personalise our stock packaging with your choice of Christmas labels, festive sleeves or even ribbons. Consider the available label area, surface finish, and the lid opening when planning your design. This will guarantee the packaging remains easy to open and use.
Our rigid premium square gift boxes are available in two sizes, perfectly designed to provide a snug fit for our 20cl and 30cl glass candle jars. Select the corresponding box size and check the product dimensions before you decide to place an order.
Yes, you can select the sample option on any product page, allowing you to check the size, finish and suitability of packaging before you decide to complete a full order. Order up to 10 samples in a single transaction with free shipping when samples are ordered separately from other products.
We recommend orders for Christmas stock packaging are placed by the end of September. This will provide you time for labelling, filling, photography and delivery. Check the availability for your selected size and colour before completing an order.
Are you considering bespoke packaging? We advise beginning your bespoke Christmas packaging order in January! This will ensure that you have nearly a full year to work on the design, iron out the kinks and ensure that your finished packaging is ready for the Christmas sales.