Choice of container for packaging

 

The size

From small jars designed for a single scoop of ice cream to large containers intended for five to 20 servings to take home to intermediate containers ... As a business, it will be essential to choose the correct container sizes to maximize sales of your ice cream while providing a variety of choices in cardboard box with lids to your customers.

If you primarily sell your ice cream in grocery stores, supermarkets, and other distributors, you can also add additional sizes to increase your appeal to customers and market to a broader audience interested in different amounts of ice cream.

The material: Focus on recyclability!

Paper and plastic remain the most popular materials in terms of custom packaging for small business. Plastic containers will traditionally be used for sundaes, parfaits, and other single-serve products. You will usually only use them for ice cream sold for your store, or single serve frozen take-out products.

On the other hand, paper containers remain the default option for almost all forms of prepackaged ice cream. However, you will undoubtedly choose this option if you offer your ice cream in large jars, which customers enjoy at home.

As a brand, it will be essential to analyze your sales before purchasing your personalized containers to choose the correct ratio between paper and plastic containers according to the buying habits of your target audience.

Today we can see that plastic coverings are gradually disappearing in favor of 100% cardboard. Renewable, recyclable, and compostable! The principle of the deposit also makes a timid appearance, spurred on by a handful of brands. The ice-cream jars, delivered to your home, can be returned empty to their sender, who will clean them before refilling them.

Other innovative containers also allow ice cream to melt faster from above than from above. Practical for easy tasting! Ice creams have never ceased to amaze us!

How to ship your ice cream?

A new batch of homemade pistachio ice cream to deliver to the neighborhood? Do you have tenfold shipping needs now that you have opened up to the international market? Be careful when sending fragile and perishable products such as these. How to guarantee safe delivery?

The obstacles

Is it necessary to specify it? Since ice cream is a temperature-sensitive product, there is a high risk of melting during transport. Unbelievable! In other words, maintaining freshness and flavor can be a challenge, as the temperature can vary significantly as you transport your ice cream from one place to another.

Shipping different flavor combinations can also be problematic. Not all mixtures will react in the same way to temperature changes. A strawberry-chocolate variety, for example, will melt differently than chocolate or strawberry ice cream alone, which can make shipping much more difficult.

Also, note that incorporating new components, such as marshmallows, chocolate chips, or candies, will further complicate shipping. In addition, some react very badly to the cold, as has been observed on marshmallows. Finally, the ice cream being heated and then refrozen may take on a grainy texture, which is rather unpleasant when tasting.

Where regular ice is heavier and can dampen the bottom of your ice cream packaging, dry ice is an ideal option! Provide sufficient dry ice packs to cover the expected transit time. As well as an additional 24 hours in the event of a delay. We never know!

Ensure a transit in 30 hours maximum:

A simple way to preserve the quality of your ice cream as much as possible and limit the vulnerabilities to which it could be exposed. You will then think carefully about the day of shipment. There is no way your package will wait a whole weekend in a warehouse!

 Monitor shipments:

Maintain complete visibility and enjoy peace of mind when shipping your ice cream. Some carriers will allow you to track up to 25 packages step by step at the same time.

Unbelievable vanilla, intense fudge, fresh mint… A few simple precautions, and here is your ice cream that will indeed arrive safely in tailor-made ice cream packaging! All that remains is to stock up on ideas by relying on the designs available on the market to create something that will only look like you!