Explore our range our Valentine's Day packaging, perfect for all types of gifts from candles to cakes, cosmetics and more.
Premium, sustainable choices available in a wide range of colours and sizes. Give the gift of great packaging to your customers this season.
Reusable and easy to personalise, gift tin packaging is perfect for everything from sweets to candles and countless luxury cosmetics. Choose heart-themed colours from rose gold to silver or minimalist styles to match your brand.
Best for: chocolates, candles, jewellery, keepsakes and more.
Choose tins for a protective, food-safe solution that provides a premium container for delicious cakes, chocolates, and other treats. Delight your customers with tins filled to the brim with wondrous treats.
Best for: Sweets, truffles, fudge, biscuits and more.
Package candles in our metal tins for a premium, romantic feel, designed to preserve fragrances and keep candles safe.
Best for: candles, wax melts, and mini fragrance sets.
Self-care gifting is one of the most popular valentine's day trends with couple's buying one another premium skincare and cosmetic products. Aluminium tins are easily brandable and ideal for water-based products including creams and moisturisers.
Best for: Soaps, hand cream, balms
An Estimated 6 Million couples get engaged every Valentine's Day worldwide. Ensure your product is part of their special day with packaging that adds to an unforgettable moment.
Best for: jewellery, engagement sets, and bridal gifts.
Valentine's Day sales have grown significantly in recent years. An Estimated £2.1 million is spent in the UK through the season each year. with average order values hitting €70.55 in Europe. Demand is also climbing for personalised, crafted gifts including chocolates, flowers, and candles. Small businesses should look at Valentine's Day as an early-year sales opportunity. Here's how to capitalise on the season of love.
AIm to select and order packaging for your products two to three months before February 14th. If you are ordering bespoke packaging, start the process in early summer.
Research your products and find out which items are seasonal choices for customers. Certain sweets, candles, and cosmetics are likely to be more popular in the run-up to Valentine's Day.
Customers are buying Valentine's Day products based on emotion. Packaging that feels premium can help justify higher prices and encourage customers to commit to a sale. Reusable tin packaging is one of the most popular choices as it provides customers with a keep-sake long after the original present has been used.
For many European countries, such as France, Italy, and Spain, Valentine's Day is a day to focus purely on romantic love and takes place annually on February 14th. In other countries, most notably Estonia, Norway and Finland, the 14th of February is a day to celebrate the platonic love found in friendship and families. In either case, giving gifts as a sign of love or appreciation remains traditional, but the form of those gifts can vary from country to country, even region by region. Below are some examples of these differences.
Chocolate is one of the most popular gifts. In Italy, one might give Baci hazelnut chocolates which can include love notes inside the wrapping. Chocolate Glücksschwein, or lucky pigs, are a modern twist of the more traditional German marzipan pig and are given at New Year and Valentine's.
A traditional Welsh gift of a hand-carved wooden spoon represents love and commitment, usually given by a man to a women. Symbols carved onto the spoon have different meanings.
Flowers (particularly roses, tulips and orchids), jewellery, luxurious candles, wine and premium baked goods are also customary gifts in many countries.
In Demark, friends and lovers may give gifts of chocolates and flowers. During Ystävänpäivä, in Finland, friendship gifts might include, plants, candles, photographs or homemade baked goods. Children often make cards or crafts for friends.
In addition to Valentine's Day there are other dates where love and friendship are celebrated around Europe. If you are selling gifts around Europe then it might be useful to add some of these regional "love days" into your calendar. There are also international friendship days but these are often seen as more of a political gesture, rather than a time of giving.
If reaching out into other national markets, it is wise to do your research into local customs. For example, some in Germany view Valentine's day as an "imported" custom and reject overt commercialisation. In Bulgaria, wine makers are also celebrated on the 14th of February, honouring the patron saint of Winegrowers St Trifon.
In many countries, romantic couples might attach padlocks to bridges and throw the key into the river as a sign of everlasting love. There are many origin stories to this but "love lock bridges" can now be found all over Europe and further afield such as in China and the USA. In fact, it is quite hard to find a romantic European capital city without one.
Gaekkebrev are Danish secret admirer joke letters, traditionally associated with the run up to Easter, but commonly associated with Valentine's day in Denmark and Norway. Men anonymously send cut paper notes (imagine paper snowflakes) with funny poems. The Easter connection is that, if the woman guesses the sender they also receive an Easter egg. If she guesses incorrectly then she owes an egg to the sender.
