Christmas Cartoon Pyramid Foldable Candy Box

Each box carries one face, so a plate of favours can be mixed instead of all looking the same. Santa, a snowman, a reindeer and a gingerbread man are the four in the standard set, and a buyer can also send a character of their own for us to draw. Because the faces sit on plain panels rather than a busy background, one box still reads clearly when several are put together. A box that carries a face is also the one a child keeps after the sweets are gone.

- The board comes die-cut and pre-creased, so it folds in four moves and needs no glue.

- No drying time, so a stall can fold boxes as the favours are sold instead of the night before.

- Flat sheets stack in a drawer, so a shop can hold four characters without four piles of built boxes.

- The crease lines are pressed by machine, so the corners meet the same way on the last box as on the first.

The tag carries the greeting, so two people can be handed the same box and still know which is whose. A name or a short line of type can be printed on the tag instead of Merry Christmas, and the ribbon colour is set with it. For market stalls, a tag with the price or the flavour on the back saves a handwritten label. The tag is part of the box, so there is nothing extra to buy before the favours are packed.

Because the shape is a pyramid rather than a box, it also works as a decoration once the sweets are gone. A loop sits at the top, so the box can be hung on a tree or on a branch of a display. A row of them on a shelf reads as a set, which is why shops use them in window displays as much as at the till. The same box does both jobs, so a shop does not need one product for packing and another for decorating.

- The box is small enough to sit beside a plate of sweets without covering the table.

- It holds a handful of candy, a few chocolates or one small piece of jewellery, so it suits a sweet table or a gift table.

- The pack is listed as suitable for ages 3 and up, which is the note a children's gift usually needs.

- Made from thicker board, so the pyramid keeps its edges straight when several are packed together.

Favour boxes and small folding cartons are the work our factory has done the longest, and the die-cut lines are drawn in house. Orders that come back every season stay on the same die, so this year's gingerbread man lines up with last year's. Alongside this box we cut pyramid and pillow boxes, cupcake and cake boxes, mailer and rigid boxes, plus the ribbon, the tag and the insert that go with them. A buyer who wants four characters in one carton, or one character in four sizes, gets both on the same order. Packed flat and counted by piece, a Christmas order of several thousand arrives as a small carton rather than a pallet of built boxes.