Protective packaging specialist GWP Packaging has renewed its contract with English national organic food delivery service, Abel & Cole, to supply a range of bespoke packaging.
The three year contract will see GWP – based in Cricklade, Wiltshire – provide Abel & Cole with branded cardboard packaging, including beer packs, wine boxes, chill boxes, dividers, cartons and pallet board, for products including fresh organic fruit and vegetables, meat, fish and dairy.
Having worked with Abel & Cole since 2006, GWP provides the company with a specialist Just In Time delivery system to enable it to hold zero stock of packaging and to deliver it to them precisely when needed – GWP can accurately predict Abel & Cole’s packaging needs up to four weeks in advance.
Ruth Cook, managing director of GWP Packaging, says: “Due to the nature of Abel & Cole’s business, there are many demands placed on the packaging. It needs to be sturdy, able to cope in all weathers and reusable, and we are uniquely placed to offer this quality product.”
Rob Grimmer, head of production at Abel & Cole, says: “We collect and recycle packaging materials from our customers and it’s not unusual for one of the boxes that GWP supplies to be used over six times. This makes it very challenging both to get a box that is strong enough to last that many journeys, survive being filled with raw produce and being rained on, but also simply predicting what our usage of new boxes and therefore requirement will be.”
With design and manufacturing expertise across the full spectrum of protective packaging products, GWP Group employs over 100 staff across its four divisions – GWP Packaging, GWP Protective, GWP Conductive and GWP Coatings.
GWP Packaging will continue to supply packaging to Abel & Cole
