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What goes into an ₹850 corporate box
A plain line-by-line costing of our kraft corporate box, and where the price moves when you change it.
Our corporate kraft box starts at ₹850 for 25 boxes or more. Offices often ask what that pays for, so here is the breakdown for a standard box.
The kraft box itself, with a paper insert that holds things in place, costs us about ₹95. Inside go 200 g of filter coffee powder from a roaster in the city, about ₹210, and 250 g of groundnut and sesame chikki from one of our family kitchens, about ₹160. A printed card with your message, a cotton ribbon and tissue add ₹45. Packing by hand takes about six minutes a box, and with delivery to a single office address in Bengaluru, labour and transport come to roughly ₹140. GST and our margin make up the rest.
The price moves in a few predictable ways. A logo sticker and printed ribbon add ₹18 to ₹30 a box and five working days. Delivering to each employee’s home instead of one office adds ₹70 to ₹120 a box in Bengaluru and more for other cities. Swapping chikki for a dry fruit tin raises the box to about ₹1,300.
For 100 boxes or more we can bring the base price down by about 8 per cent, because coffee and chikki are bought in one batch. We always send one sample box first, and take a 50 per cent advance only after you approve it.
