An American manufacturer of instruction sheets, labels, and the cartons they go in.
From the West Coast to the East Coast, GMS Industries has your packaging covered.
Custom Corrugated Folding Cartons Labels Instruction Sheets Rigid Boxes Bags
Built on relationships that last
By the numbers
Our headline lineup. Built by one family-led team.
Folding cartons, labels, instruction sheets, and corrugated boxes — the four families we lead with. Designed, printed, assembled, and shipped by the same family-led team.
Folding Cartons
Meticulously printed folding cartons that put your product first on the shelf. Litho, digital, finishes, foils — every job specced to the press.
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Labels
Pressure sensitive labels engineered to survive cold chains, hot fills, and an Instagram close-up.
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Printed Instruction Sheets
Inserts, manuals, booklets, and pamphlets that finish the unboxing — printed alongside your cartons in the same plant.
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Corrugated Boxes
Custom corrugated and single-face laminate shippers built for the weight and the brand on the side.
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Specialty packaging for the projects that need it. Available, but not how most clients start with us.
Rigid Boxes
Luxury rigid setup boxes for premium unboxing — a niche, higher-cost option for projects that need it.
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Printed Bags
Custom printed paper bags for retail, gifting, and promotion.
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A packaging company that does things differently.
We started in 1989 with one belief: a packaging vendor should feel less like a vendor and more like part of your team. Thirty-seven years later, that belief still runs the place. The Glidden family signs the checks, answers the phones, and walks the plant floors. Some of our clients have been with us for thirty-seven years — longer than most marriages.
- Family-owned — led by Kris Glidden (CEO) and Cory Glidden (COO), co-owners
- GSA-Certified — eligible for federal and enterprise set-asides
- A US manufacturer of instruction sheets, labels, folding cartons and corrugated boxes — manufacturing in the U.S. and Mexico
- Quote-driven, never catalog-priced — every job specced to your product
We package what people put in their carts, fridges, and medicine cabinets.
CPG is our home turf — frozen-foods clients have been with us for 14+ years. We build cartons, labels, and corrugated for the verticals below.
Food & Beverage
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Consumer Packaged Goods
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Pharmaceuticals & Nutraceuticals
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Cosmetics & Beauty
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Home & Hardware
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E-commerce & Retail
Learn more about E-commerce & RetailSome relationships outlast the packaging.
Everything below is a matter of public record or a contract number you can look up.
37 years with our longest client
Founded in 1989. Our longest-running client relationship is as old as the company itself.
GSA Schedule #47QSMS26D004X
An active federal contract any government buyer can verify on GSA Advantage before issuing a PO.
Second-generation family-owned
The Glidden family has run GMS since 1989 — the brothers who own it still answer the phone.
Named in The CEO Magazine as a Kwikset supply-chain partner
In a CEO Magazine profile, Tim Goff — President of Hardware and Home Improvement at Assa Abloy — described Kwikset's network of supplier partners, “like packaging manufacturer GMS Industries,” as playing a vital role in the company's supply chain, noting many of those suppliers have worked with Kwikset for decades.
Read the articleFrom the first call to the loading dock.
Tell us about it
Email sales@gmsindustries.com, call, or send a sample — even a napkin sketch. A real person picks it up.
We spec the job
Materials, dimensions, run size, print method. You get a real quote with real numbers.
Proof and approve
Our in-house design team turns artwork into a print-ready proof. You sign off before a single sheet runs.
Manufacture
The right plant for the job — across our U.S. and Mexico manufacturing — runs it on schedule.
Ship to your DC
Direct ship or distribution to your DCs — on schedule, on the labels you specified. Your call on routing.
Have a project in mind? We'd love to work with you.
Send a quick brief and a real person from the GMS family will get back to you within one business day — not next quarter.