Minimum Quantity for Wholesale Bottle Orders

[Hewnspirits]

We're getting closer to the day when we'll need to have our bottling and packaging

worked out and I'm trying to get a feel for what to expect from wholesale bottle distributers

in terms of minimum order numbers. Any insight would be mucho appreciated.

[tl5612]

I might be able to help - although please note that I am based in the UK, so things might be slightly different.

Catalogue bottle from company like Saverglass (France), MOQ is one pallet (about 960, 70/75cl bottles). Price falls by about 10% if you order 10 pallets.

Custom made bottle from China, MOQ can be as low as 10k units.

Custom made bottle from UK manufacturer, MOQ is higher at around 30k units.

[Hewnspirits]

Thanks TL....Curious what folks here in North America are seeing as well.

[Absinthe Pete]

That seems about the same. Not sure about the discount as I've only ever ordered one pallet at a time. For custom bottles what I've heard is if you order 30,000 then the mold is free and the bottles comes out to about $1 each.

[Hewnspirits]

Thanks Pete.....If you don't mind me asking, who do you get your bottles from?

[Absinthe Pete]

I get my bottles from bottle manufacturers. Oddly when you try to buy bottles from cheese manufacturers they look at you weird.

I get mine from Bruni Glass. Saver and United Bottles are also pretty popular.