Every kind of kitting, at any scale — presentation-grade gift programs to 20,000-unit-a-day runs — backed by e-commerce fulfillment and 80,000 sq ft of temperature-controlled storage in Nashville, TN.
Kitting is combining separate items into a single, ready-to-ship unit — built to your spec, every time. A single item sealed in a poly mailer and headed to a B2B end user is a kit. An 80-plus-piece box sold at a premium to consumers on TikTok is a kit. A store-specific carton with the right sizes, signage, and stickers for one location is a kit. We run that entire range, every week.
You'll hear other names for this work — co-packing, product bundling, assembly. They all land on the same production floor, and we treat kitting as the umbrella: if items come in separately and leave as one correct, complete unit, that's what our team does all day.
We handle kitting and assembly of every kind, at any scale — but presentation is where we stand apart. Gift-quality kits built to exact brand standards: custom boxes, tissue fill, inserts, and gift and loyalty programs that arrive looking exactly the way your brand intended.
The same precision goes into everything else we pack — multi-SKU builds sorted by store, region, or recipient; ink jetting; shrink wrapping; labeling; inspection and rework. Small custom run or national high-volume program, one-time project or ongoing program, the care is the same.
Kitting quality comes down to the people on the line — and ours have been doing this together for a long time. Some of our kitting leads have more than twenty years in kitting and assembly. Our core production group has worked side by side since the mid-2000s — across three different 3PLs before building this operation together.
That continuity is why complex projects run clean here. The team that scoped your job is the team that builds it — and because so much kitting work is one-and-done, there's no learning curve to lean on. Decades of combined experience let them set the best-practice build for quality and efficiency before the run starts, catch problems before they reach the line, and hold the same standard on unit 20,000 as on unit one.
And because we're owner-operated, the people running the floor are the people you talk to — accessible, accountable, and quick to make a call when your project needs it.
Our kits have landed at national retailers, major banks, universities, restaurant chains, pet brands, pro sports teams, and collegiate athletic conferences — names you'd recognize immediately.
We don't publish them, and that's the point. When a promotional-products company hands us a campaign, they're handing us their client relationship. Protecting your client list from your competitors is part of the service — your clients' names stay between us, on every project, without being asked.
No names, as promised — just the projects, exactly as they ran.
47,500 pieces. 2,350 unique orders. 3 days.
A one-time, kitted-to-order project for a national retail program: more than 40,000 shirts plus 7,500 bandanas and stickers arrived at our dock, were built into 2,350 unique store orders — no stocked inventory, no standing pick line, every order its own configuration — and shipped nationwide in three days. Components in, kits out, project closed.
Campaign kitting for national promotional-products companies — presentation-grade, multi-SKU kits built to brand spec, sorted by recipient, and shipped on their behalf to recognizable brands across retail, CPG, healthcare, financial services, technology, and education. Some programs recur; many are one-and-done — built right the first time, because there is no second time.
Attendee gift kitting for trade shows and exhibitions at Music City Center and Gaylord Opryland — large-volume event kits built, staged, and delivered on the event's clock.
Ongoing kitting and labeling for a Nashville-area CPG brand — Amazon FBA kitting prepped to requirements, plus e-commerce and B2B order fulfillment as the brand has grown.
Week in and week out, our team kits more than 20,000 units — and on streamlined single-item runs, we've built over 20,000 kits in a single day.
Our fulfillment campaigns for business-to-business communication are complex, custom projects. Southern has the experience, expertise, and attention to detail needed to execute complex, presentation-quality kitting that delivers timely marketing messages and drives bottom line for our partners. Rest better at night, use Southern!
Southern Trading Solutions is an excellent partner for complex kitting and fulfillment — from custom packaging to ongoing programs. Fast, flexible and always efficient. In my many cases of urgent needs over the years, Michael has always come through in budget and on time.
On kitted-to-order distribution projects, we stand up a live visibility portal for your team — no spreadsheets, no "any update?" emails.
Secure sign-in by email — no passwords to manage, and your project data is visible only to your team.
Promotional products campaigns are a specialty of ours. National promotional-products companies rely on us to kit and ship on their behalf — complex, custom, deadline-driven projects where the box that arrives is the brand impression.
We build campaign kits to your client's exact spec, sort by recipient or destination, and ship under your program's requirements — to end recipients across retail, CPG, healthcare, financial services, technology, and education. Whether your campaign runs every quarter or exactly once, the build method is locked before the first kit is sealed. Your client sees a flawless kit. You see hit ship dates, live tracking, and clean reporting back — and your client's name never leaves the building.
Running a campaign? Request a quote — tell us the piece count and the ship date, and we'll tell you how we'd run it.
Mostly vocabulary. Kitting is the umbrella term: combining separate items into one ready-to-ship unit, built to spec. Co-packing and product bundling describe the same work from different industries' points of view. Whatever your team calls it, if components come in separately and need to leave as complete, correct units, we handle it.
No — we work at any scale. Small custom runs get the same team and the same care as national programs.
Both. Kitting to order is a core part of what we do — components arrive, kits are built to spec and shipped, and the project closes. No storage commitment or ongoing contract required.
It depends on the kit — but for reference, we've received, built, and shipped 47,500 pieces as 2,350 unique orders in three days. Tell us your components, your spec, and your deadline, and we'll tell you honestly whether we can hit it.
Yes — we've kitted attendee gifts for trade shows and exhibitions at Music City Center and Gaylord Opryland, at very large volumes. If your event is on the calendar, we can build to its date.
Yes — kitting and labeling prepped to Amazon's requirements, as part of our FBA Prep services.
Yes to both. We store more than 5,000 pallets of client material in our 80,000 sq ft temperature-controlled warehouse — component storage before runs, finished-kit storage after, and long-term storage with no kitting component at all. One building, one team, no transfer step.
We're in La Vergne, TN — 0.6 miles from I-24 and about 20 minutes from downtown Nashville — serving Middle Tennessee and shipping nationwide for clients across the Southeast and beyond.
Piece counts, components, ship date — whatever you know so far. We'll come back with how we'd run it and what it costs.