"You cannot get more central than Crick. We pull containers off rail at DIRFT and they're on the M1 within minutes. For national trunking it's simply the best-positioned spot in the country."
Co-packing and repacking for Crick brands — multipacks, shrink wrap, relabelling and rework, done in the warehouse your stock already sits in.
Co-packing and repacking for Crick: multipacks and banded sets, sleeving and shrink wrap, relabelling and barcode correction, promotional packs and rework of rejected stock. Simple repacks from £0.45 per unit, relabelling from £0.75, with a first-off sample approved before any run. Reached via M1 (J18), A5, A428 and M6 (J1), 8 minutes from the DIRFT core.
Product rarely arrives in the format the customer buys. Co-packing is the gap, and doing it where the stock already sits saves a whole movement.
Twin packs, three-for-two banded sets, gift packs and seasonal bundles built and finished so they can be sold as a single line.
Barcodes corrected, country-of-origin and language labels applied, retailer-spec labels added and old labels removed properly.
Stock rejected at a retailer, damaged in transit or labelled wrong is inspected, reworked and made sellable rather than written off.
The same two tiers as every WSUK service. Short-term rate card for one-off and project runs. Long-term contract rates apply to repeat pack formats where the work instruction is already established.
Pay-per-use published rates with no commitment.
Locked-in rates on multi-year SLAs.
Multipacks, banding, sleeving and shrink wrapping.
Barcode, compliance and retailer-spec labels.
Rejected, damaged or mislabelled stock made sellable.
Indicative ranges based on standard requirements. Bespoke / hazardous / temperature-controlled goods are quoted separately. Get an exact quote for your volumes →
Crick is small, but in logistics terms it is enormous. This unassuming Northamptonshire village in the NN6 postcode sits directly atop DIRFT - the Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal - and beside Junction 18 of the M1, where the M6 also begins at Junction 1. It is, quite literally, the rail-freight heart of the UK's Golden Triangle. The Rugby core is around eight minutes away, and few points in Britain place a business closer to the intersection of motorway and rail than this.
DIRFT is the reason Crick punches so far above its weight. The terminal moves containers between rail and road at national scale, and the vast distribution centres that ring it - occupied by household-name retailers and grocers - depend on that connection to feed the country. The nearby Crick Industrial Estate adds further space, but it is the rail terminal that defines the area's purpose: this is where trunk-haul freight transfers from train to truck for onward delivery across the Midlands and beyond.
For all its national significance, Crick sits among familiar Northamptonshire and Warwickshire neighbours. Rugby is minutes up the A428, Daventry a short run along the A5, and Lutterworth with its Magna Park cluster lies just north via the M1. A base at Crick means being at the pivot point of the whole triangle - the place national 3PLs choose precisely because road, rail and the country's densest concentration of distribution capacity all converge in one spot.
WSUK builds multipacks, promotional packs and shelf-ready outers for brands across Crick and Northamptonshire, finished to the buyer’s spec, with a first-off sample approved before any run and the finished pack barcoded as its own SKU.
M1 (J18), A5, A428 and M6 (J1).
~8 min from the DIRFT / Rugby Golden-Triangle core.
Rail freight, national distribution and 3pl.
Operating from the Golden Triangle on M1 (J18), A5, A428 and M6 (J1) — around 8 minutes from the DIRFT core, and within easy reach of Rugby, Daventry and Lutterworth.
From first contact to live operation, our typical onboarding takes less than a week.
Volumes, SKUs, peak season, integrations. One 10-minute call is enough.
Transparent line-item pricing on a single page — no hidden fees, no jargon.
Walk the floor with our ops team. Bring your operations lead, not just procurement.
Stock in, scanning live, integrations active. Daily standups for the first two weeks.
Local answers for Crick, plus the questions every co-packing & repacking client asks.
It sits directly on top of DIRFT, the Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal, right beside M1 Junction 18 and the start of the M6 at Junction 1. That combination of rail and motorway makes tiny Crick one of the most significant logistics locations in the country.
DIRFT is a major rail-freight terminal that transfers containers between train and lorry at national scale. Basing near it lets you tap rail trunk-haul for long-distance inbound, then distribute by road, cutting cost and carbon on high-volume flows.
Extremely close - around eight minutes. Crick effectively is the core, sitting at M1 Junction 18 where the M6 also begins. You won't find a base more central to the triangle's road-and-rail convergence than this.
Lutterworth's Magna Park, the UK's largest distribution park, is a short run north on the M1, while Daventry's estates lie along the A5 and Rugby's are minutes away via the A428. It's the densest warehousing area in the country.
Absolutely - it's the classic choice. National 3PLs cluster here because DIRFT, the M1, the M6 and the country's biggest distribution parks all converge within minutes, making Crick unrivalled for high-volume, multimodal national distribution.
Multipacks and banded sets, sleeving and shrink wrapping, promotional and gift packs, shelf-ready outers, relabelling and barcode correction, and rework of rejected stock. Simple repacks from £0.45 per unit, relabelling from £0.75.
Yes — send a sample first. We inspect it and tell you honestly what proportion is recoverable and the cost per unit before you commit the pallets. It almost always beats writing the stock off.
No, and that is the main saving. The work happens in the same Crick-serving warehouse your stock already sits in, so you avoid two freight movements and a week of transit.
A first-off sample is built and approved by you before the run starts, with a QC check per batch afterwards. Nothing runs at volume until you have seen one.
Yes — barcoded as its own SKU, counted into stock and pickable immediately, so a promotional pack can be built and despatched to a retailer in the same week.
| What you get | WSUK | Generic 3PL / DIY |
|---|---|---|
| Live within 24–72 hours | Yes | Rarely |
| First-off sample approved before any run | Yes | Rarely |
| Done where your stock already sits | Yes | Rarely |
| No setup fee & no minimum run | Yes | Rarely |
| Rejected stock reworked, not written off | Yes | Rarely |
| Finished packs barcoded and pickable same day | Yes | Rarely |
We provide co-packing and repacking across Crick, Northamptonshire and the wider Golden Triangle — Rugby, Daventry and Lutterworth and beyond. Explore nearby service areas.
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