Custom Made Cardboard Boxes have yet to see the Apex of Packaging Industry
It does not matter whether you buy Bible or the latest product of Apple, it comes packed inside a cardboard box. Cardboard boxes are just like plastic; they are everywhere.
But:
They are better than plastic because they are based on wood-pulp, which is 100% biodegradable.
However:
Their impact is not making the world more aware of them, and this business has yet to see its apex. Why custom-made cardboard boxes USA businesses are actually sky-rocketing, is a big myth.
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If you think that it is because of the big corporations like Apple or Unilever, you are living in a world before the internet.
It is actually the unprecedented and flabbergasting rise of the internet markets and e-commerce industry, that the need for custom designed cardboard boxes has reached to an unseen and unexpected level.
Here is how this trend will continue to grow and impact the world's economy.
1. Amazon Impact
The online shopping giant Amazon has started contributing to the packaging industry at a big level. They have been doing awesome at e-commerce and it is because of them that a lot of online shopping websites like AliExpress in China sprouted like mushrooms.
However:
No one comprehended that this will go to a level that packaging companies will start making billions only from one big ecommerce giant.
Amazon just recently made rich the UK based packaging company named as DS Smith.
The company has made £1 billion within 5 years only by selling packaging to Amazon. Amazon needs the enormous amount of cardboard boxes every month.
And yes, you have read this right. This is not 1 billion US dollars, but 1 billion British Pounds. Excited?
The overall revenues generated from the same company, since it does not only serve Amazon but a few other big players as well, reached a total of £2.8 billion within six months of 2017.
2. Industrialization
There was a time when people with money and lots of money used to invest in the business. Those were the people with wealth dripping from past generations and they could do that. Then came the time when dorm room geniuses started internet companies and garages created computer giants.
Now:
Is the time that universities, governments, venture capitalists and everyone with a recurring income more than their needs, is willing to give money, time, opportunities, space and everything to a young and promising person who can give them the good return on investment.
This situation and the availability of resources bring more and more people from job to business. Drop shipping and e-commerce are the features of the world and they are going to create an ecosystem where a lot of other businesses e.g. marketing, branding, packaging, and commodities etc. will live off of their success.
This is the future of the world, a world where custom made cardboard boxes will occupy air, sea and the land, and travel more than any human being ever did.