Corrugated boxes shipped to Arkansas
Meat and poultry processing employed 34,773 people in Arkansas in 2025, 3.1 percent of all private jobs and 7.5 times the national share. Food manufacturing as a whole came to 51,799.
Who orders boxes in Arkansas
Poultry plants need heavy cases built for cold storage; the state had 93 million cubic feet of refrigerated warehouse space. Benton County in the north-west, home to large retail headquarters and their suppliers, had 2,670 warehousing jobs, and Pulaski County (Little Rock) led with 7,477.
Delivery and freight
Crittenden County, across the river from Memphis, is in that metro; see the Memphis page for those ZIPs.
Boxes delivered in Arkansas: ask for a price
Add the Arkansas ZIP the boxes go to, the inside size, grade and count. Freight is part of the quote.
- Inside size
- length x width x depth, in inches
- Style
- RSC, full overlap, telescope, die-cut or bulk
- Wall and grade
- read it off the stamp on your current box
- Count
- boxes per order, and how often you reorder
- Packed weight
- box plus contents
- ZIP
- where the boxes are delivered
After you send it
- We reply by email, usually with questions first if anything is unclear
- You confirm the specification, and a sample or drawing if it is a new design
- We send the price, the delivery window and the count tolerance
- On approval the order is scheduled and shipped to your dock
Worth knowing in Arkansas
Northwest Arkansas is home to large retail headquarters and the suppliers who sell to them, many of whom keep offices around Bentonville and Rogers. Those suppliers follow the retailer's packaging requirements for case size, labelling and pallet patterns. If you supply a retailer with written requirements, send them with your quote request; we quote the carton to comply.
Northwest Arkansas, around Bentonville, Rogers and Springdale, holds the head offices of a large retailer and a large poultry processor, and their suppliers keep offices and warehouses close by.
Trades here and the boxes they order
- Meat and poultry processing: Heavy double wall cases for chilled and frozen product
- Food manufacturing: Shipping cases sized to the product and the palletizer
- Refrigerated warehousing: Cases that keep their strength in coolers and freezers
- Fruit and vegetable preserving: Seasonal cartons for canned, frozen and packed produce
- Plastics product manufacturing: Large light boxes and pallet-size bins for molded parts
Sources: BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2025; Census ZIP Code Business Patterns, 2023.