Woods Packaging reflects on a third consecutive award win, as well as recent business updates.
First of all, everyone at Wood’s Packaging is over the moon about winning the ‘Best Supplier for Packaging Products (Wrapping)’ award for the third straight year. We make sure that everyone at Wood’s understand it’s down to their commitment to providing a great service, that we were voted for the award. To win, was an absolute bonus.
When the trust, values and core beliefs of a small family run business grow as the company does, it helps us to help our customers in a way they need. It allows us to build a strong and long-lasting business relationship with our customers to a degree where we’re invested in the livelihood and success of their business too. We like to consider ourselves pro-active and often happy to call our customers to tell them the price has come down if we were able to make a saving on a particular product, without them having to ask. Naturally, this works both ways. If we must put a price up, our customers trust that it’s necessary based on this strong relationship.
It would be obvious for us to claim that it’s been a great year, however dealing with so many furniture companies it’s impossible to avoid the feedback about how quiet the furniture industry is this year. This naturally has a knock-on effect in the furniture packaging world. Wood’s Packaging are lucky that we supply to anyone that works with furniture including manufacturers, retailers, two-man home delivery teams and removal companies as an example. It has meant it’s given us time to get out and about and visit customers face to face which helps to maintain established customer relationships.
We’re constantly on the lookout for new sustainable packaging solutions to offer our customers and extending our range to ensure we are fully equipped to supply everything our customers use. As well as exhibiting at multiple shows each year, we visit numerous packaging shows to keep up to speed with packaging trends. We’re working behind the scenes on some exciting projects which will help our customers to reduce their bubble-wrap consumption with paper-based, more eco-conscious alternatives. Be sure to follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Tik Tok & LinkedIn for news and updates.
August 2024 saw Wood’s Packaging warehouse transform and become the set of Wainwrights, a DIY store in the groundbreaking Netflix show, Adolescence, starring Stephen Graham. It was such an incredible experience for everyone involved and it gave us all a real insight into the planning and preparation a show like this takes to create. It was operationally very challenging as we continued to despatch orders and ensure our day-to-day business was unaffected. The Netflix crew were fantastic, and we worked closely on this exciting task to ensure a successful project. The final day of filming, early September we were graced with a visit from Stephen Graham himself who took time out for photos with the Wood’s Packaging staff and was genuinely the loveliest guy ever!
The show launched in March 2025 and smashed records like no other for its viewing figures, storyline and filming techniques used. We knew it was going to be good (we’d seen the cast list) however we never expected it to receive the accolades it did. We are so proud to have been part of the story both on and off the camera, however small our part. We were all bound to strict secrecy since the filming and therefore it was a huge relief when it eventually aired in March of 2025 and we could speak about it. Look out for “Wainwrights” in episode 4 of Adolescence. The whole company enjoyed a complimentary day at the races with the proceeds from Netflix.
We want to thank every person who voted for us in this year’s awards and extend our congratulations to all the winners. We know how much hard work goes into it and certainly do not take it for granted.
