Outsource your contract packing requirements to The Finishing Line, your trusted Essex-based partner for scalable, dependable, and cost-effective fulfilment.
Finding a reliable partner to handle contract packing in Essex is essential for businesses that need scalable, flexible, and cost-efficient fulfilment. Based in Basildon, Essex, The Finishing Line has over 30 years of experience supporting companies across industries, including food & drink, cosmetics, publishing, and medical products.
Our team can take care of complex, labour-intensive, and time-critical packing processes, helping your business reduce costs and improve efficiency. By outsourcing to us, you gain access to local expertise and a dedicated workforce that ensures your products are prepared to the highest standards.
Whether you’re looking to scale, or a national brand seeking in the South East, The Finishing Line provides tailored solutions you can depend on.
Our Medical Kit contract packing service covers procurement, assembly, and fulfilment of personal protective and medical equipment. With strict quality control procedures in place, we’re able to supply, prepare, and distribute over 150,000 Covid test kits weekly, ensuring precision, compliance, and reliability at every stage of the process.
We understand the importance of visual appeal and professional presentation in magazine fulfilment. From optimising item placement to selecting sustainable packaging materials, our experienced team and stringent quality control processes allow us to fulfil and distribute over 750,000 magazines per week to exacting client and publication standards.
Our automated systems enable us to quickly print and apply barcodes and labels to a wide range of products. With custom labelling options and express despatch services, we ensure all items meet deadlines and quality standards supporting efficient, high-volume eCommerce fulfilment and seamless inventory tracking.
We provide comprehensive returns management services, including inspection, quality control, repacking, and processing of returned items. Our robust systems ensure products are handled efficiently and clients receive fast, accurate updates. We put our clients first by delivering a seamless experience from reverse logistics through to restocking or final disposal.
Our team offers bespoke fulfilment solutions for cosmetic products, including re-merchandising, hand assembly, packing, repacking, labelling, barcoding, and quality checks. Whether you’re launching a new product or managing high-volume orders, we guarantee a tailored service that ensures presentation, accuracy, and customer satisfaction from start to finish.
At The Finishing Line, we specialise in hand assembly, preparation, and distribution for food and drink hampers. We handle sorting, packing, and fulfilment of non-perishable items such as cereal bars, tea bags, and soft drinks. We always maintain product quality and presentation with the utmost care and attention.
We handle high-volume fulfilment of stationery and gift items, including pens, notepads, placemats, and more. Our experienced team ensures every product is presented professionally and packed with care. Quality control is integral to our process, guaranteeing consistency and satisfaction for every shipment, regardless of order size or complexity.
We offer expert handling and fulfilment of vitamins, supplements, and protein products, including labelling, barcoding, packing, and quality control. Whether for direct-to-consumer or bulk distribution, our team delivers a bespoke, efficient solution to match your specific requirements. We ensure speed, compliance, and reliability every step of the way.
We provide hand assembly and co packing services for gift bags across fashion events, trade shows, corporate promotions and much more. Our end-to-end support includes product storage, inventory control, returns handling, and final delivery to recipients. With proven expertise, we ensure your gift bags are assembled and delivered accurately and on time.
Our Essex contract packing facility is strategically located to enhance your supply chain efficiency. With direct access to major transport routes serving London, the South East and nationwide distribution networks, we enable faster delivery and smoother logistics for your business.
Partnering with an Essex-based contract packing provider offers clear advantages:
Contract Packing, also known as co-packing, is the service of packaging products for redistribution on behalf of a client. This can include hand packing, repacking, labelling, barcoding, inspecting, and quality checking to ensure goods meet exact specifications. At Finishing Line, our contract packing process begins with assessing your requirements, including product variants, components per item, and delivery destinations. We then create a tailored, efficient solution to prepare and package your products for domestic or international distribution.
Our main facility is based in Basildon in Essex, giving us excellent links to London, the South East, and national distribution hubs.
Finishing Line offers extensive capacity for a wide range of products, with storage at our Basildon production facility. Our warehouse provides cool, dry storage, protected from harsh light, and can be adapted to meet specific product requirements. Whether your business needs short-term or long-term solutions, we have the space, resources, and flexibility to handle your B2B contract packing projects.
Yes! We work with business of all sizes, from local start-ups to large retailers, we support you across Essex and beyond.
Our production centre is fully equipped with the operational and mechanical resources required for contract packing, including forklifts, docking equipment, lifting and storage machinery, and packing benches. We can also arrange vehicles for transportation upon request, ensuring your supply chain runs smoothly from packaging to delivery.
We offer a range of value-added services such as labelling, devanning, and palletising, with costs dependent on unit quantities and container sizes. We also supply additional materials where required, including cardboard, plastics, cello tape, shrink wrap, gift wrap, and sleeve wrapping, helping you present and protect your products effectively.
Finding a local, trusted partner to handle your contract packing requirements can be a challenge especially when consistency, speed, and attention to detail are critical. That’s why working with an experienced provider like Finishing Line is key to ensuring your products are packed to specification, delivered on time, and always meet your customers expectations.
Share the details of your current operations, your contract packing needs, and the challenges you’re facing. We’re here to create a tailored solution that supports your business, enhances efficiency, and helps you scale with confidence.
“The Finishing Line have been pivotal in helping us expand our online business, supporting us every step of the way. Their expertise in ecommerce fulfilment has provided us with the confidence to focus on our customers, whilst they handle our supply chain.”
– Paul Torre,
Director of Buying & Sustainability, Immediate Media Co/Giggly
“Finishing Line was flexible in their approach to accommodate us and onboarded us as quickly as possible at our request. Only a matter of weeks into the contract, everything is already running so much more smoothly. By moving to The Finishing Line, we’ve improved efficiency and saved costs!”
– Aaron Taylor,
Owner, Oliver’s Kitchen
“The efficiency and speed of packing has improved the end-to-end process, so we’ve already seen savings on the bottom line. Logistics is such a big part of a successful business, so we’re very happy. For us, it was definitely the right move at the right time!”
– Nicky Haynes,
Co-Owner, Tyrrell Katz
“I have always enjoyed working with The Finishing Line. Not only for their consistently great service, but for their exceptional staff. The Finishing Line care. They care about their employees. Keeping their customers at the heart of everything they do, TFL consistently strives to deliver innovation by driving out inefficiencies and seeking new solutions to move the industry forward. I recommend The Finishing Line for all businesses, large or small. Whatever the size, you’re sure to receive the same high level of service.”
– Siobhan Galvin,
Commercial Director, Story House Egmont UK
“Tenevo enables us to easily manage and track all our orders, which allows us to quickly react should a store need an unscheduled resupply. Ensuring we have sufficient stock levels across all our retail partners is vital, so having the ability to set stock level alerts within Tenevo gives us that additional safety net when planning our next national store drop”
– Matthew Bidwell,
National Account Manager
“The Finishing Line was instrumental in ensuring that we were able to distribute over 150,000 testing kits every month throughout England as part of the Government’s COVID-19 REACT study. Their knowledge and experience in contract packing solutions provided us with the utmost confidence that this important job was in safe hands.”
– Gary Welch
Research Director, Ipsos Mori
“The Finishing Line are a pleasure to work with – nothing is too much trouble. First-class service, flexibility, scheduling, and value for money. The perfect supplier.”
– Sarah Jenson,
Production Director, Condé Nast
“The Finishing Line are a first-class fulfilment and logistics operation. Their wealth of experience, coupled with an excellent ‘can-do’ approach to problem solving helps us to meet the ever-changing needs of our business, and makes them an integral adjunct to the production fulfilment needs of our UK business.”
– Mark Irvine,
Head of Production, Panini UK Ltd
“Finishing Line is a key part of our supply chain and has been influential in our continued growth. Their knowledge and expertise in item re-merchandising, repacking, and labelling gives us the assurance that our products are in safe hands.”
– Steve Adams,
Brand Manager, RBM
“Tenevo provides us with complete visibility, from billing to real-time stock levels, as well as live order status and tracking, we are in control. Their ability to provide multi-channel order fulfilment ensures that we can maximise sales across multiple eCommerce platforms”
– Luke Shelley,
Co-founder, Lucky Egg
“The inhouse Tenevo system gave The Finishing Line a good edge and a strong competitive advantage. We also appreciated their thorough approach and professional manner throughout the tender process.”
– Michelle Klein,
Commercial Director, Yogamatters
“I was impressed both by the facility and the attitude of the people. The Finishing Line fully understood the nature of the project and gave us the confidence that they would deliver to our requirements”
– Martin Hall,
Category Lead, NHS Supply Chain
Looking for expert contract packing solutions tailored to your products? Our team delivers efficient, scalable support you can count on. Get in touch to find out how we can help.
