For a chocolate gift box, Christmas is often the most saleable time of the year. Why not use that to your small business’s advantage and lean into the festive fun this December?
A massive 95% of Britons eat chocolate, making the UK a leading global consumer of this beloved indulgence. Our penchant is especially clear during the Christmas season, when many customers purchase seasonal chocolates, pastries and other delicious treats to enjoy or gift.
Let’s explore what makes a Christmas chocolate box appealing to potential customers in a competitive market, and dive into some of our unmissable Christmas packaging options to find one that suits your needs…
The Characteristics of the Best Christmas Chocolate Boxes
If you’re creating chocolates to sell or gift this December, consider swapping out the standard, year-round look for a high-quality seasonal alternative. The change could help your products to shine online, on shelves, and in customer homes.
The best Christmas chocolate packaging:
- Captures the Spirit of the Season
This is possibly the most essential element, whether you’re purchasing a festive foiled lid for a Christmas chocolate selection box or placing individual treats in novelty-shaped decorative favours.
Our Christmas chocolate boxes combine colours, patterns and metallics to produce joyful, vibrant and suited-to-the-season results. We have nostalgic, classically Christmassy red and green options, unique and untraditional bright hues for a stand-out effect, windowed tree cut-outs, cartoon elves, premium bauble patterns, and more.
- Feels Premium and Well-Designed
Since many Christmas chocolate boxes are purchased as gifts, it’s especially important that they hold up to travel and, for larger boxes, the repeated opening and closing that characterise the experience of festive snacking.
Meridian’s product selection is ideal for small businesses and DIY gifters alike. It exists at the cross-section of quality and affordability, which means we’re able to grant our customers access to a premium, sturdy and well-finished feel without the premium price tag.
- Perfectly Suits Purpose
Your chocolate’s Christmas packaging should be purposeful and well-suited. Choosing the wrong box for the products you have in mind will reduce their impact and gift appeal.
That’s why we have several festive options on offer, including 12-day and 24-day calendars in regular and giant sizes, lids for differently sized selection boxes, a variety of ballotins, and smaller cartons and crackers. Whatever your vision for a special Christmas chocolate product, we have the packaging you need.
- Contains Quality Product
Last but not least is, of course, the product itself. This one’s down to your business, but if you’re putting the effort in to create top-notch chocolates, you deserve some stunning seasonal packaging to show those off, meet their standard, and protect them on the way to their destination.
Selection boxes with complex flavours and fillings are common at Christmas, and are often produced at greater expense to the chocolatier or artisan behind them. Recoup some of that investment with sales-boosting packaging.
The Different Types of Christmas Chocolate Boxes
There are many kinds of Christmas chocolate boxes to consider investing in:
- Advent Calendars: Our Advent calendars (one of the most popular types of Christmas chocolate boxes!) are available in 12 or 24-day formats and many sizes and shapes. Customers can package chocolates independently from the calendar and place them in the calendar, or use a supplied self-pour tray.
- Standard and Novelty-Shaped Gift Boxes: We offer our customers a range of differently sized ballotins decked out in festive prints and colours, with capacity options from one chocolate to 1000g of chocolate. We also have novelty six-point star-shaped gift boxes and lids for some extra Christmas cheer.
- Festive Lids for Year-Round Boxes: If you’d like to jazz up an existing box with six, 12, or 24 cavities for chocolate, you might choose to limit your Christmas packaging investment to lids. We have fold-up lids with a foiled Christmas tree design and a cut-out Christmas tree window available.
- Supported Base Cellophane Bags: Though not technically a box, these hard-bottom cellophane bags come in numerous festive edging options, including frosted hearts and green and red holly leaves. They’re very popular with confectioners hoping to sell celebratory bags of treats during the holidays.
- Mini-Cartons and Pillow Boxes: Selling or gifting smaller portions? Our a-frame mini cartons featuring a cartoon Christmas character (Santa or a North Pole elf) are the perfect stocking filler. Our flat-pack pillow boxes are another popular option, available in three sizes and four designs.
- Novelty Small Portion Packaging: Alongside mini-cartons, pillow boxes, and smaller ballotins, we have some small-portion packaging in festive novelty shapes. You could buy hexagonal or square Christmas crackers from us, as well as decorative Christmas favours on strings in shapes like a bauble, star, or tree.
Start Designing Your Perfect Christmas Chocolate Packaging
If you’re looking for a home fit for your delicious festive chocolate, Christmas packaging might be the ideal option this season. The finishing touch that boosts your sales and increases your holiday revenue.
At Meridian, we provide customers with an extensive range of Christmas chocolate boxes and unique packaging options. Depending on your needs and preferences, you can purchase any of the following products from our website:
- Advent Calendars:
- 12-Day Advent Calendars
- 24-Day Giant Advent Calendars
- 24-Day Self-Pour Advent Calendars
- 24-Day 3D House Advent Calendars
- Build-Your-Own Advent Calendars
- Six Point Star Gift Boxes
- Christmas Ballotin Boxes
- Flat-Pack Pillow Gift Boxes
- Festive A-Frame Mini Cartons
- Christmas Fold-Up Lids (Foiled and Windowed) for Various Box Sizes
- Christmas Crackers and Novelty Shape Favours
- Festive Hard-Bottom Cello Bags
- Postal Outers and Buffer/Protective Packaging
If any of the above are of interest, and you’d like to learn more, reach out to one of our experts. In no time at all, we’ll make your perfect seasonal packaging a reality.