How Samuel Grant Packaging's Packaging Audit Helps UK Businesses

A Samuel Grant Packaging audit is a consultative review of your current packaging, intended to help you specify materials properly rather than buy on price alone. It suits UK businesses that are dealing with damage, inconsistent packing, or rising material and compliance costs and want an evidence-based starting point. The company combines audit work, data and hands-on experience, and invites businesses to call for a comparison packaging audit.

What the audit is for

Samuel Grant Packaging describes its approach as practical and consultative: the goal is to help customers "specify packaging properly, not just buy on price." In practice, that means the audit is a decision-support exercise — it looks at what you pack, how it performs in transit and in your operation, and where protection, material use and cost can be balanced better.

This matters because packaging decisions are often made on unit price alone, which can hide the cost of damage, rework, excess material or poor pallet stability. An audit reframes the question from "what is the cheapest box or film?" to "what specification performs reliably at the lowest total cost in use?"

How the assessment works

The company positions the audit around three inputs:

• Packaging audits — a structured review of your existing packaging and how it is applied.
• Data — using information about your operation and packaging performance to support recommendations.
• Hands-on experience — advice from a long-standing team of packaging experts, backed by the company's history as a family-owned B2B protective packaging specialist since 1891.

The audit sits alongside the wider range the company offers, which includes corrugated, cushioning and void fill, paper products, strapping and transit products, polythene and plastics, stretch films, adhesives, tapes and labels, and pallet stability systems. That breadth is relevant to the audit: recommendations can draw on corrugated, void fill and pallet stability together, rather than treating each as a separate purchase.

Outcomes the audit is aimed at

According to the company, its packaging solutions are designed to:

• Reduce damage — through better-matched protective packaging and pallet stability.
• Improve throughput — by making packing more consistent and easier to run.
• Control cost — by balancing protection, recyclability and total cost in use rather than chasing the lowest purchase price.
• Support compliance — including sustainable packaging and EPR (Extended Producer Responsibility) support.

A useful way to judge whether an audit is worth your time is to check whether any of these are live problems. For example, if a product line suffers recurring transit damage, or if packing time per order has crept up, those are the kinds of issues an audit is meant to surface and address.

When an audit is a good fit — and when it isn't

How to arrange a comparison packaging audit

The company's site provides a direct route: it invites businesses to call for a comparison packaging audit, and there is a contact option alongside the audit information. The practical steps are:

1. Identify the scope — pick the product lines or pallet types where damage, cost or packing time is the concern, so the audit has a defined subject.
2. Gather what you already know — current packaging specifications, damage or returns data, and any compliance or EPR requirements you are working to.
3. Contact the company to request the comparison packaging audit and confirm what information they need from you.
4. Review the recommendations against the outcomes above — damage, throughput, cost in use and compliance — and decide which changes to trial.

The site does not publish audit pricing or turnaround times, so confirm scope, cost and timing directly when you make contact.