Outsource your Contract Packing requirements with Finishing Line.
Award-winning facilities you can trust to assemble, disassemble, and hand pack your items.
Finishing Line have been in operation in London for over 3 decades, operating out of one of the largest hand fulfilment centres in the UK. We’ve developed a hybrid formula, which combining the latest IT systems with human dexterity and intuitiveness to provide a unique data-driven solution. This enables effective B2B contract packing, including management of your company’s item assortment, ensuring that all hand assembly, disassembly, and hand packing requests are carried out with speed, efficiency, and accuracy.
Contract packaging is the practice of outsourcing packaging tasks to specialized external companies. Businesses leverage contract packaging services to optimize their core functions while benefiting from expert assistance in design, labelling, filling, and bundling. This approach enhances efficiency, quality control, and adaptability to demand changes, ultimately streamlining the supply chain and ensuring products meet market standards. Contract packaging emerges as a versatile solution, enabling companies to focus on their strengths while entrusting packaging to dedicated professionals.
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.
We provide hand assembly and 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.
With over 30 years of experience, we specialise in hand assembly, preparation, and distribution of 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.
What is Contract Packing?
Contract Packing providers (or co-packers as they are sometimes known), pack items for redistribution. A contract packing company will work under contract to package products for their clients, whether it’s hand packing, repacking, labelling, barcoding, inspecting, or quality checking.
What are the processes of Contract Packing?
We can provide an estimated price for your company requirements based on three key factors:
– How many item variants are required for contract packing?
– How many components are there per item?
– Are the items being sent to one or multiple delivery destinations? Are they domestic/international?
How does this process work?
Once a customer places an order request for fulfilment of their stock, these products are then sent from the stock manufacturer to us, the fulfilment house, where all goods will be processed onto our system and stored in the warehouse, before the items are then picked, packed, and shipped.
What is your storage capacity?
Based in two locations, Finishing Line operates out of an 88,000 sq. ft. warehouse at its main Production Facility in Basildon, UK, as well as catering for more of our clients’ stock in our second eCommerce Fulfilment facility, which offers an additional 33,000 sq. ft. of warehouse storage.
What is your storage capacity?
Here at Finishing Line, we have a vast capacity of storage in our warehouse, enabling us to host a variety of product types that vary in dimensions and weights. In total, our Production Facility houses 88,000 sq. ft of storage, which we are still filling for your B2B Contract Packing projects.
Do your facilities offer the appropriate conditions for my products?
Our facilities provide ideal conditions for most product types, offering cool, dry storage, in a warehouse that is not exposed to harsh light/direct sunlight. If your products require any specific storage conditions, we will always cater to the needs of your business as effectively as we can.
Which products can you provide Contract Packing services for?
Beauty & Cosmetics, Fashion & Apparel, Supplement & Vitamins, PPE & Medical, Books & Magazines, Stationary & Gifts, Arts & Crafts, Toys & Games, Medical Devices & Testing Kits, Tech & Gadgets, and so much more. Further details can be found above in Contract Packing Services.
Current and previous Contract Packing projects that Finishing Line have carried out?
Finishing Line have been working with several well-established book and magazine publishers, such as the likes of Story House Egmont UK, Immediate Media Co., Panini, and many others, in our mission to deliver the most efficient B2B Contract Packing solutions for our most valued clients.
What warehousing equipment do you have at your facility?
Our Production centre houses all necessary vehicular and operational equipment that is typically associated for a Contract Packing warehouse to facilitate. This equipment includes but is not limited to; forklifts, docking equipment, lifting and storage equipment, and packing benches, etc.
Are you able to arrange vehicles at your facility?
Yes, we can arrange vehicles upon your request. A high number of enquiries that Finishing Line receives typically ask whether this is something that we can provide, and due to the demand for this service, rest assured, we have you covered. We make it our aim to meet all your supply chain needs.
Do you offer labelling, devanning, and palletising processes?
The cost of labelling, devanning, and palletising stock is completely dependent on the total quantity of units which require our Contract Packing services. Whether it’s devanning a 20ft, 40ft, or 60ft container, labelling, or palletising several products, they all have their own price points.
Can you provide materials such as cardboard, plastics, cello tape, etc.?
Our Co-packing and Value-Added Services supply our clients with any additional materials that their items might require. These materials and packing processes include, but are not limited to; cardboard, plastics, cello tape, gift wrapping, shrink wrapping, and sleeve wrapping, etc.
Finding a 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 the 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.
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