Tom Burden
Founder, RightBox
Tom leads RightBox and works directly with the organisations it supplies.
About RightBox
A partner that understands the category, and the business around it.
RightBox is a corrugated packaging and procurement partner for large, complex organisations, bringing commercial discipline to a category that is often bought transactionally.
We sit between the business and the manufacturing base. RightBox doesn’t own manufacturing plants. We work with a network of approved partners and manage supply on our customers’ behalf. That position lets us see packaging the way procurement, operations and finance each see it: as spend to control, a process to keep running and a cost to understand.
Our work starts with the numbers: what is bought, where, against which specification and at what total cost. From there we build a sourcing and supply model that holds up operationally, at the volumes, lead times and site counts large organisations run on.
The result is fewer surprises for operations, clearer data for finance and a packaging category procurement can manage with confidence.
With 13 years’ experience supplying corrugated, RightBox now supplies more than 2 million boxes a year to over 500 customers in 15 countries.
13yrs
Supplying corrugated
2m+
Boxes supplied each year
15
Countries supplied
500+
Customers supplied
43
Partner manufacturing sites
Principles
How we work.
Total cost over unit price
We judge every decision on what it costs the business overall, not the cheapest line on a quote.
Data before recommendations
Opportunities are identified from evidence, quantified and prioritised.
Operations come first
No saving is worth disrupting a production line or a customer delivery.
Long-term relationships
Value builds over years of review and improvement, not a single tender.
Our model
Independent of any single mill.
RightBox doesn’t run its own corrugators. We work with a vetted network of manufacturing partners, and take responsibility for the result.
The right plant for each job
Specifications are placed with the partner best suited to the board, volume, print and location, not whichever line we need to fill.
Capacity without constraints
Volume can be spread across partners and regions, so growth or peaks don’t depend on one factory.
Built-in resilience
If a plant is disrupted, supply can move to an approved alternative, protecting continuity.
One point of accountability
You deal with RightBox. We manage partner quality, service and performance on your behalf.
Meet the founders
Learn about Tom and Axl.
RightBox was founded by Tom Burden and Axl Barber. They lead the business and work directly with the organisations RightBox supplies.
Axl Barber
Co-founder, RightBox
Axl leads RightBox and works directly with the organisations it supplies.
Next step
Meet Tom and Axl.
An initial conversation is the best way to understand whether RightBox is the right partner for your organisation.