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A History of the Hat Box

A History of the Hat Box

What’s in a hat box? Sometimes, a hat. However, for many of us in the business of gift-giving, we recognise that hat boxes have been popularised as a packaging solution. Well-suited for elaborate floral arrangements, balloon bouquets, and teddy bear gifting, a hat box provides a versatile canvas for creativity. This iteration of hat box usage has taken a sharp turn from the history of the hat box, whose function has been both practically simple and socially complex.

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Bomboniere Packaging Buying Guide

Bomboniere Packaging Buying Guide

Summary: 

  • Making your own bomboniere packaging is often more cost-effective than outsourcing bomboniere packaging.
  • Benefits of DIY packaging include flexibility of customisation to match event themes, as well as personalisation, and uniqueness of design.
  • Guests appreciate the effort put into DIY packaging and often keep these gifts as sentimental keepsakes.

When preparing wedding favours, party favours, crafted event souvenirs, and more, making your own homemade party favours packaging can be a great way to make creative and personalised gifts that don’t cost the earth.

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Mailing Boxes and the Unboxing Experience

Mailing Boxes and the Unboxing Experience

In this age of online shopping, click-and-collects, and delivered convenience, boxes are increasingly a part of the retail experience. Mailing boxes have so many uses and are a great tool for building e-commerce and retail businesses. As such, at Koch & Co., we have expanded our mailing box range. Read below for some tips and tricks for using our flatpack mailing boxes to help enhance your customers’ unboxing experience. 

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Plastic-Free Protection: Paper Shred and Honeycomb Wrap

Plastic-Free Protection: Paper Shred and Honeycomb Wrap

Paper shred and honeycomb wrap are definitely having a moment, and this has everything to do with saving resources. Paper shred and honeycomb wrap provide plastic-free protection to goods and gifts in both effective and economical ways. Not only are they plastic-free, they are also lightweight, easy to use, sustainable, and compostable.

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Wishing Well Buying Guide

Wishing Well Buying Guide

Summary:

  • Event wishing wells are a decorative way to request and receive monetary gifts at any number of event types. 
  • Wishing wells are not just for weddings. Find them at quinceñearas, bar mitzvah/bat mitzvahs, engagement parties, graduations, 100 days baby milestones, holy communions, kitchen teas, bridal showers, and more.  
  • Wishing wells can be made from any materials, in any shape. 
  • Materials often used to decorate wishing wells include ribbons, flowers, fairy lights, and fabric.

A wishing well is a wedding tradition designed to cater to newlyweds who don’t need traditional wedding gifts like homewares, and would instead prefer monetary gifts. Wishing wells might be newer to weddings, but money is a gift that has a long history of being traditionally given at many different milestone celebrations. As such, events wishing wells are also popular at celebrations like quinceñearas, engagement parties, graduations, 100 days baby milestones, holy communions, kitchen teas, bar mitzvahs, and bat mitzvahs.

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DIY Flower Food to Keep Your Flowers Fresher For Longer

DIY Flower Food to Keep Your Flowers Fresher For Longer

Summary:

  • Flower food sustains flowers, decreases the presence of microorganisms, and helps them absorb water and nutrients more effectively. Combined, these factors keep your flowers looking and smelling better, for longer. 
  • The three key components of flower food are citric acid, sugar, and an antibacterial agent.  
  • Flower food is easy to make at home using household items.  
  • Many DIY recipes use bleach, so take care to ALWAYS MIX THE OTHER INGREDIENTS FIRST, THEN ADD BLEACH AS THE FINAL STEP.  
  • When your vase water becomes cloudy, change out your water and make a new batch of flower food. 
  • Trim your stems, pick out dying vegetation, and remove any wet leaves or buds from your arrangement and water.  
  • If DIY flower food is not for you, check out our ready-made range at Koch & Co.  

A bouquet is always something special to give or receive, whether it’s from the corner shop or a boutique florist. To keep your flowers fresher for longer, we have some simple DIY flower food recipes below that can be made with simple household items.  

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Wrap and Pack with Sustainable Kraft Products

Wrap and Pack with Sustainable Kraft Products

When it comes to packaging, we all recognise that sustainability is now a core value to government, businesses, and consumers alike. Small brand touches on a business’ sustainable packaging can communicate so much about attention to detail, the quality of products and service, as well as its ethos. Now, more than ever, finishing touches like branded wrap and packing tape are helping both small and big businesses to minimise their footprint and meet the changing values of an environmentally-minded clientele.

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Our New GET IT FRESH™ S Wrap Has Arrived!

Our New GET IT FRESH™ S Wrap Has Arrived!

In Australia, single-use plastics are on their way out. Though this is a positive change for the environment, these measures are having an impact on Australian businesses, both big and small. In an effort to replace plastic packaging, there has been a boom in both innovative and affordable sustainable kraft products to wrap and pack with. Strong and durable, kraft paper is a hero of this new wave of packaging products. Read below for more information about kraft paper as well as our expanding range of kraft-related products that will help your business on its way to a more sustainable packaging future.

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