Co-Packing & Contract Packaging Services

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Retail programs rarely arrive with generous lead times. Our contract packaging/co-packing services give you the people, the space, and the process control to turn bulk inventory into retail-ready units without missing a ship window. From display builds to multi-unit bundling and relabeling, the work happens inside the same warehouse that already stores and ships your product.

What Co-Packing/Contract Packaging Services Cover

Contract packaging, often shortened to co-packing, is the practice of outsourcing assembly, bundling, and labeling to a third party instead of running it through your own plant. A co-packing partner takes finished goods and prepares them in the exact configuration a retailer, distributor, or online marketplace requires.

The possibilities are close to limitless. Common projects include:

• Building and stocking special display stands for seasonal or promotional programs.
• Creating new single-pack and multi-pack combinations from SKUs you already hold.
• Applying new case UPCs, retailer labels, and compliance markings.
• Assembling kits and value packs that were never packaged that way at origin.
• Reworking cases that arrived damaged, mislabeled, or in the wrong count.

Most brands outsource this work for one of two reasons. Either the volume is too seasonal to justify permanent labor and floor space, or the configuration a buyer wants does not match what the production line was set up to run. Outsourcing solves both without capital investment. Because our teams work alongside your inventory rather than in a separate facility, they can respond rapidly when a program changes, so sale opportunities are never lost.

From Corrugate to Finished Display

Floor displays, end-of-aisle units, and club store pallets follow a repeatable path through our warehouse:

1. Corrugate and components arrive and are received against your program.
2. We create the bill of materials so every unit is built to the same standard.
3. Product is pulled from your stored inventory and staged for assembly.
4. Displays are assembled to your PO quantity, with labeling applied along the way.
5. Finished units are packed out, palletized, and released ready to ship.

The bill of materials and the assembly order are set up in our system before the build begins, so every unit is put together against the same spec. If new case UPCs or retailer labels are part of the program, we can create and apply those as well. What leaves our warehouse is retail-ready under the SKU your program requires.

Need Product Reconfigured Before It Ships?

Repack and rework are routine work for us, not exceptions. Typical requests include:

• Multi-unit bundling into new packaging configurations for a specific retailer program.
• Marketplace prep for channels like Amazon that require particular case counts, cartonization, and label placement.
• Relabeling or over-labeling when artwork, pricing, or regulatory information changes.
• Breaking bulk cases down into smaller, shelf-friendly units.
• Rebuilding product into a new SKU before it ships to a customer.

If your product needs to be reconfigured, relabeled, or rebuilt before it hits a shelf or ships to a customer, it is work our teams handle routinely. Display builds and marketplace packouts are the two areas we run most often.

Choose a Co-Packing Partner Inside Your Fulfillment Network

Packaging happens inside the same operation that stores your product, alongside your B2B fulfillment and pick and pack programs. Inventory moves a few aisles instead of a few hundred miles, which means fewer handling steps between the pallet and the finished display.

Where the fit is right, inbound freight can sometimes be handled through cross-docking as well, so components move toward assembly without a full put-away cycle first. Storage, packaging, and outbound shipping all run under the same roof and the same team.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is co-packing?

Co-packing, short for contract packing, is when a company hires an outside provider to package or repackage its products rather than doing the work in house. The co-packer supplies the labor, workspace, and materials handling to assemble, bundle, or label goods to a defined specification. It is commonly used for retail displays, promotional multi-packs, and marketplace-compliant cases. Contract packaging service providers usually charge by the unit or by the hour, depending on the complexity of the build.

What are the most common contract packaging applications?

The most frequent applications are retail display assembly, multi-pack and value-pack bundling, relabeling and UPC changes, kitting, and marketplace prep. Regulated categories add their own variants, including contract supplement packaging and cosmetics contract packaging, where labeling accuracy and lot control matter as much as speed. Rework also falls under this umbrella when cases arrive damaged or incorrectly packed and need to be salvaged rather than scrapped.

Retail-ready presentation is often the difference between a program that ships on time and one that gets turned away at the dock. With contract packaging services built into the same warehouse that already holds your inventory, there are fewer handoffs between locations and less distance between a change in the program and the product going out the door. Get in touch to talk through your packaging requirements and we will map out how we would run the work.