Over the past 12 months, Aylesbury Box Company has manufactured record volumes of e-commerce packaging. With physical shops closed, retailers had to adapt and embrace online shopping. In diversifying, they establish websites, order fulfilment, packaging design and e-commerce policies at speed. In the Prime Minister’s roadmap...
Last month, Aylesbury Box Company delivered 2000 litho-printed cartons to Nadia Pomfret, owner of a new enterprise, Ally Candles. These presentation boxes will hold her range of natural candles. Every new business owner has an emotional attachment to their venture. They have to invest considerable time,...
A bright, sunny weekend and we’ve all started to dream of those warm summer days. It may have been February, but last weekend was a delightful reminder that spring is in the air. With the promise of good weather comes plans for picnics and barbeques...
In recent months, Aylesbury Box Company have been contacted by a record number of start-up businesses. Furlough, redundancy and job uncertainty has been the catalyst for many people to become their own boss. Data shared on Small Business suggests that 12,490 of the new businesses launched...
Stories of Amazon hoarding all of the cardboard boxes are circulating. Has this presented other online retailers with packaging supply issues? As a specialist cardboard packaging manufacturer, we have prepared for and responded to a gradual increase in demand. The industry has been able to balance...
We are used to terms like vegetarian, gluten-free and low calorie being used to describe food, but how about drinks? Aylesbury Box Company have just supplied printed shipping boxes to a drinks company with a difference. Low and No Drinks is a recently launched business that...
We all know that the excessive use of plastic packaging poses a significant problem. Our rivers, seas, beaches and countryside are being filled with non-biodegradable packaging. Greater action needs to be taken, but who is responsible? Is it down to Government policymakers, manufacturers, retailers or...
“Necessity is the mother of invention” – Plato Dire situations and uncertainty are often the sparks for exploring new opportunities. This is seen in the current emergence of thousands of new e-commerce businesses. Months of furlough, job losses and business closures are igniting entrepreneurial spirits. If you...
Brexit rules, Covid-19 restrictions and rapid shifts in customer behaviours; as a business owner, it can feel as though you have no control over anything. As an e-commerce business, the design of your product packaging and shipping boxes is something that you can take control...
It is likely that in the countdown to Christmas, you received many orders packaged in cardboard boxes. With many retailers forced to close in lockdown, online shopping grew at at accelerated rates through 2020. All those e-commerce deliveries can leave you with quite a collection...