Packaging Company
Discussion
Hi all,
Myself and business partner are currently looking at possibly setting up a packaging company. When i say packaging i mean jiffy bags, mailing sacks etc.
We are actually considering buying a padded envelope making machine and producing our own padded envelopes in order for us to be price competitive with the hundreds of packaging companies out there who are simply reselling jiffy's from the supplier. If we owned a manufacturing machine, we could produce envelopes to order meaning we wouldn’t require much storage and wouldn’t have a problem of stock sitting on the warehouse floor waiting to be sold.
My question is, does anyone have half an idea on how much one of these machines would cost or where we could possibly acquire one. I have had a quick look on Google and the search wasn’t very fruitful.
Does anyone else know of any other company that actually produces padded envelopes?
Thanks,
Richard
Myself and business partner are currently looking at possibly setting up a packaging company. When i say packaging i mean jiffy bags, mailing sacks etc.
We are actually considering buying a padded envelope making machine and producing our own padded envelopes in order for us to be price competitive with the hundreds of packaging companies out there who are simply reselling jiffy's from the supplier. If we owned a manufacturing machine, we could produce envelopes to order meaning we wouldn’t require much storage and wouldn’t have a problem of stock sitting on the warehouse floor waiting to be sold.
My question is, does anyone have half an idea on how much one of these machines would cost or where we could possibly acquire one. I have had a quick look on Google and the search wasn’t very fruitful.
Does anyone else know of any other company that actually produces padded envelopes?
Thanks,
Richard
we have a sister company acting as a reseller for a lot of packaging, and the key is volume, as the margins aren't there. If you can overly compete on price, then maybe, just maybe, it could make a bit, but we don't see it getting to even 20% of the £10m of the parent company's turnover.
This just will not work on a small scale.
Don't want to be negative, but to undercut the competition and maybe make £1 profit on a box of 100, if you imagine the machine costs:
£10,000 you are going to need to sell a million envelopes to cover the cost
£20,000 you are going to need to sell 2 million enveloped to cover the cost...
You see where I am going?
You'd make more money stuffing things in envelopes with your bare hands for someone else than try this yourself...
Don't want to be negative, but to undercut the competition and maybe make £1 profit on a box of 100, if you imagine the machine costs:
£10,000 you are going to need to sell a million envelopes to cover the cost
£20,000 you are going to need to sell 2 million enveloped to cover the cost...
You see where I am going?
You'd make more money stuffing things in envelopes with your bare hands for someone else than try this yourself...
How hard did you look?
First search on Google came up with this :-
http://www.allproducts.com/machine/mingjilee/Produ...
First search on Google came up with this :-
http://www.allproducts.com/machine/mingjilee/Produ...
jamoor said:
2 thoughts on this
The big boys are making millions of bags a week, and they are benefitting from economies of scale.
The big boys have potentially big overheads and you will be able to undercut them because of this.
They can't undercut and cover their expenses in this case.The big boys are making millions of bags a week, and they are benefitting from economies of scale.
The big boys have potentially big overheads and you will be able to undercut them because of this.
They could if they already have their customers lined up and they will be selling thousands of envelopes from day 1.
Big boys already have a customer base, chances are already have a reliable service, chances are they own all of their assets like machinery etc.
So yeah, I just don't really see this idea taking off tbh. I assume it's merely an idea at this stage due to the lack of research so far.
Another idea, havn't put that much thought into yet.
Whats stopping you from drop shipping this sort of stuff.
If you can genuinely find a proper repliable supplier from China to make you the packaging stuff in huge amounts ( EOS ), and then send it over.
Am I being stupid here?
This is ofcourse assuming the price is cheaper and you can find a reliable supplier.
Whats stopping you from drop shipping this sort of stuff.
If you can genuinely find a proper repliable supplier from China to make you the packaging stuff in huge amounts ( EOS ), and then send it over.
Am I being stupid here?
This is ofcourse assuming the price is cheaper and you can find a reliable supplier.
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