2006 · 2026 · Zonhoven
20 years of making the gift
Packaging makes the gift, since 2006.
The Depot supplies wine merchants, brewers, chocolatiers and caterers across the Benelux with gift packaging. Collections are drawn in Zonhoven and developed with our manufacturers. The stock on the page is the stock on the rack, personalisation starts at 25 pieces, and orders placed before 14:00 leave the warehouse within 48 hours.
Zonhoven warehouse, aisle C, location C-04-2.
The place
Kruisstraat 5, 3520 Zonhoven. The warehouse and the showroom share one address.
You come by appointment. Collections are touched, materials compared, boxes assembled. The warehouse works behind: lettered aisles, numbered racks, locations in mono. Every parcel is scanned, from picking to the loading bay.
Kruisstraat 5, 3520 Zonhoven
What does not change
The 2027 redesign does not start from zero. Four things stay exactly where they are.
The stacked block, the two red Ts at an angle and the square. A crate silhouette you recognise from three metres away, on a parcel and on a facade.
Encre, Kraft, Sceau. The red never shifts, not even for Christmas: it is what signs the parcel.
2006. Twenty Christmas seasons in a row, from the same corner of Limburg.
Collections drawn in house, samples developed with the manufacturers, personalisation in hot foil, screen print, digital print and laser.
Artisans of taste: wine merchants, brewers, chocolatiers, delicatessens, caterers, florists. Trades where packaging sells.
What changes
The diagnosis in the 2027 charter is not gentle. Five things move.
The Depot no longer presents itself as a warehouse that stores, but as the partner who sells its customers' gifts. 'Wide range, fast delivery' describes a catalogue. 'Your six Christmas bestsellers from 2025 are in stock' describes a service.
No more raw supplier names. 'Scatola 2 bottiglie Night' becomes 'Coffret 2 bouteilles Night · Ref. 100350S'. Object, capacity, collection, colour after the comma.
Every promise carries a figure or a date: 48 h before 14:00, free delivery from 250 EUR, 25 pieces minimum, dated arrivals. The packaging passport documents material, end of life and sorting, reference by reference.
Pro portal connected to Exact Online, Peppol invoice issued on dispatch since 1 January 2026, picking scanned per location. Manual work recedes, the promise holds.
Dutch and French are each written by a native, never translated word for word. English serves export. The three versions say the same thing.
Five milestones
The dates the redesign rests on.
- 2006
Founded in Zonhoven. First Christmas season.
- 2025
Twenty seasons held, collections drawn in house, personalisation workshop opened to customers.
- 2026
Twenty years. Peppol mandatory on 1 January, PPWR applicable on 12 August. 2027 charter delivered in November.
- 2027
Trilingual site, Pro portal on Exact Online, packaging passport per reference.
- 2028
Harmonised PPWR label. Reorder suggested per season and per customer.
The parcel is our first medium
It passes through the hands of hundreds of shopkeepers every day. It is treated as part of the brand, not as shipping packaging.
- 01The Sceau first
Encre tape and Sceau adhesive. You recognise the sender from three metres away.
- 02The readable packing list
On Couché, in Geist Mono: ordered lines, quantities, suggested storage locations.
- 03The passport for every reference
One A6 per product, to slip into the end customer's gift.
- 04Next season's sample
A ribbon, a label or a mini format from the coming collection, with its pre-order QR.
- 05The box folds back
Shipping boxes are scored to go flat and leave again. Instructions printed inside.
Ready to leave, Encre tape and 44 mm Sceau.
The stand
Six modules of one metre, six metres wide, 2.6 metres deep.
Encre back wall with the logo in negative at 2.4 metres, kraft shelving per trade, a personalisation table with live laser engraving, a one metre red Sceau as a sign. Boxes are shown filled with real customer products.
2027 stand, six one metre modules.
The workshop
Personalisation is our customers' first margin lever. We make it buyable.
Matte gold foil on kraft or coated card. From 50 pieces.
One colour per pass, flat, on raw kraft. From 25 pieces.
Four colour on short runs, file check included.
Wood, solid board, leather. Wine crate, cheese board, label.
A 3D proof before production, 10 working days, 25 pieces minimum. Your file stays with you until you approve.
Personalisation workshop, Zonhoven.
Who it is for
Six trades, six ways to sell a gift. Choose yours.
Leaving Zonhoven, Benelux round.
On the shelf of a wine merchant, December.
We keep what we have. We change the way we talk.
The Depot 2027 charter, diagnosis
Twenty years, and the next season to prepare
A sample of Christmastime 2027, a showroom visit or a question about personalisation. We answer within the day, in three languages.