Case Study

Packaging for Online Retail

Customer Profile

Beauty Pie is the latest brand from Marcia Kilgore, the brains behind Fit Flops and Soap & Glory. Launched in December 2016 and only available online, Beauty Pie allows its customers to buy direct from the same factories which supply the majority of make-up to well known luxury beauty brands – without paying marked-up prices.

The Problem

  • Beauty Pie sells its products for significantly less than its competitors, although the products themselves are comparable. They therefore need to keep packaging costs to a minimum – without giving the impression that the contents are any less valuable than expensively packaged make-up.
  • Since all sales are online, the packaging needs to withstand the rigours of the postal system.
  • In line with its company ethics, Beauty Pie requires its packaging to be made of 50% recycled materials.

The Solution

  • High quality printing on a glossy coated paper inside the postal packaging, to reflect the high value of the products.
  • Robust structural design with double roll-over walls.
  • Use of 50% recycled fibres for corrugated board manufactured in-house.

Additional Benefits

  • The postal packaging reverses to show the printing inside, converting into an attractive gift box.
  • The plain exterior does not attract theft in transit.

The Weedon Group – the UK’s leading independent producer of Retail Ready Packaging

The three companies in the Weedon Group worked together to provide a complete packaging solution:

  • We created the design, the coated board was produced on our own corrugator at Weedon Corrugated Products and the packaging was manufactured at Weedon PSC.
  • Our designers have specialist knowledge of the different types of corrugated board, its characteristics and performance throughout the supply chain.
  • We work closely with our customers and understand what they want to achieve.
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