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Best Kitting and Assembly Companies in Chicago (2026)

Eight kitting, assembly and contract packaging companies make this Chicago ranking, each with at least one building in the metro, in towns from Waukegan and Elgin to Joliet and Oak Forest. They are ranked on kit formats, kitting at the local building, retail labeling, published programs and quality checks, and the buildings and kitting services on each card were checked on the company's own website. The table compares kit formats across all 8, and the cards below it run in rank order with each company's buildings, strengths and watch-outs.

  • 8 companies ranked
  • 27 buildings in Chicago between them
  • Updated November 2026

By the editorial team · How we rank

Illustration: kitting bench with component bins and assembled kits

Top kitting companies in Chicago at a glance

  1. 1BelPakDisplays, club packs and gift sets for CPG and beauty brands
  2. 2Bay CitiesPOP and pallet display pack-out for club and big-box retail
  3. 3RJW Logistics GroupPOS display builds and retailer-specific repacks for CPG suppliers
  4. 4The Visual Pak CompaniesPallet displays, PDQs and club packs for CPG brands
  5. 5Saddle Creek Logistics ServicesStore display builds, multi-packs and subscription kits at scale
  6. 6G3 EnterprisesVariety packs and club store programs for beverage and food brands
  7. 7Staci AmericasDirect-seller starter kits, samples and marketing kit programs
  8. 8FidelitoneBundles, variety packs and retail display builds

Compare kit formats in Chicago

Which kinds of kitting each company publishes and whether it labels kits to retailer requirements.

#CompanyIn ChicagoSubscription boxesGift setsDisplaysPromo kitsRetail packagingRepackAmazon bundlesAssemblyRetail labels and EDI
1BelPak2 buildings
2Bay Cities1 building
3RJW Logistics Group14 buildings
4The Visual Pak Companies4 buildings
5Saddle Creek Logistics Services2 buildings
6G3 Enterprises1 building
7Staci Americas2 buildings
8Fidelitone1 building

A tick means the company names that kind of kitting work on its own website.

The 8 best kitting and assembly companies in Chicago

1

BelPak

Displays, club packs and gift sets for CPG and beauty brands

Visit belpak.com

BelPak is a contract packager headquartered in Elgin, where it lists a primary packaging plant, with a secondary packaging site on Copenhagen Ct in Franklin Park. Its secondary packaging services cover kitting, display assembly, club packs and gift sets. It fits food, pet care, health and beauty and CPG brands that want store displays and subscription boxes from the same packager.

Kitting work it publishes

  • States a 99.6% on-time-in-full rate

Strengths

  • 8 kit formats named, from promotional kits to industrial kits
  • Labels and loads temporary displays: FSDUs, shipper displays, sidekicks, clip strips
  • SQF, HACCP and GFSI certifications stated for its facilities

Worth knowing

  • No kitting minimums on its site
  • Which plant runs which kit format is not stated
  • Subscription boxes
  • Gift sets and holiday kits
  • POP displays and PDQs
  • Promotional and sample kits
  • Retail-ready packaging
  • Repack and relabel
  • Light assembly
  • Industrial kits
2

Bay Cities

POP and pallet display pack-out for club and big-box retail

Visit bay-cities.com

At a 233,119 sq ft building on Cicero Ave in Oak Forest, opened in 2026 with more than 100,000 sq ft of production space, Bay Cities runs POP and pallet display packout, blister packing and shrink film packaging. Its display work is aimed at wine, beverage, food and consumer electronics brands selling through club and big-box stores, and it designs and makes the corrugated displays it then fills.

Strengths

  • Compliant retail rollouts named for Costco, Walmart and Home Depot
  • Chargeback prevention and EDI compliance on club display programs
  • Kitting, rework, labeling, bundling and shrink wrap alongside display packout

Worth knowing

  • No subscription box or promotional kit work named
  • POP displays and PDQs
  • Gift sets and holiday kits
  • Retail-ready packaging
  • Repack and relabel
  • Light assembly
3

RJW Logistics Group

POS display builds and retailer-specific repacks for CPG suppliers

Visit rjwgroup.com

RJW is headquartered in Romeoville and lists 13 Chicago-area warehouses plus a 788,320 sq ft building in Plainfield, and it says each warehouse is integrated with its value-added services, display assembly, repacking and labeling among them. It suits CPG suppliers whose retail consolidation loads need POS displays built or unit counts reconfigured to a retailer's spec.

Strengths

  • Retailer-specific UC128 labeling and case printing
  • Repacks finished with boxing, bundle wrap or shrink wrap
  • 15.5 million sq ft of warehouse space across its network

Worth knowing

  • Built for CPG retail consolidation; no ecommerce or subscription kitting stated
  • POP displays and PDQs
  • Retail-ready packaging
  • Repack and relabel
  • Light assembly
4

The Visual Pak Companies

Pallet displays, PDQs and club packs for CPG brands

Visit visualpak.com

Visual Pak, headquartered in Waukegan, runs display, blister, carton and club pack work across five packaging facilities in Waukegan and Kenosha, Wisconsin, that total over 1.2 million sq ft. Beauty, home care, pet care, automotive and food are the markets it serves, and it packs, labels, barcodes and palletizes to big box and club store requirements.

Strengths

  • Full, half and quarter pallet displays, PDQs and rainbow pallets, including multi-vendor pallets
  • Makes its own thermoforms and paperboard before assembling the packs
  • Automated lines for blister sealing, clamshells, multi-packs and shrink wrap

Worth knowing

  • MOQs vary by division; some display pack-outs need a tooling investment
  • No subscription box programs named
  • Gift sets and holiday kits
  • POP displays and PDQs
  • Retail-ready packaging
  • Repack and relabel
5

Saddle Creek Logistics Services

Store display builds, multi-packs and subscription kits at scale

Visit sclogistics.com

Saddle Creek runs 2 Joliet buildings, on Logistics Drive (1,115,000 sq ft) and Brandon Road (990,140 sq ft), and lists store display assembly, multi-packs and kitting as SCBrand+ services across its network. It works with consumer products, food and beverage and apparel brands, and ships retail orders to routing guide, ASN and EDI rules.

Kitting work it publishes

  • Kitting and assembly for a record Vinyl Me, Please release expected to top 50,000 orders

Strengths

  • 6 kit formats, including gift sets, promotional kits and repacks
  • Variety packs, plus kits built to stock or per order
  • Subscription program that ships kitted orders with marketing inserts

Worth knowing

  • No kitting minimums stated
  • No quality certifications named on its kitting pages
  • Subscription boxes
  • POP displays and PDQs
  • Retail-ready packaging
  • Gift sets and holiday kits
  • Promotional and sample kits
  • Repack and relabel
6

G3 Enterprises

Variety packs and club store programs for beverage and food brands

Visit g3enterprises.com

G3 Enterprises runs four rail-served Bedford Park warehouses totaling 1.3 million sq ft, one of them AIB certified food-grade, and offers variety packs, displays and relabeling across its network. Its contract packaging serves beer, wine, spirits, beverage and packaged food brands.

Strengths

  • Mixed-SKU variety packs for retail, club store and promotional programs
  • Retailer-specific labeling and barcode updates in its contract packaging
  • Packaging inspections on shelf-ready displays, shrink wrap and rework

Worth knowing

  • Names no subscription, gift set or ecommerce kitting
  • No kitting volumes published
  • POP displays and PDQs
  • Promotional and sample kits
  • Retail-ready packaging
  • Repack and relabel
7

Staci Americas

Direct-seller starter kits, samples and marketing kit programs

Visit staciamericas.com

Staci Americas fills ecommerce orders and marketing materials from a 106,627 sq ft building in Bolingbrook and an 86,000 sq ft building in Batavia, and lists custom kit assembly among its services. It builds starter kits, samples and marketing kits for direct sellers and for health and wellness, beauty and CPG companies, mixing product with printed booklets and promotional items.

Kitting work it publishes

  • One client's 5,000+ kitted orders land at month end; 90% of the base kit is pre-assembled so each order is completed and shipped on arrival

Strengths

  • Builds thousands of kits a day, with complex kits of up to 20 products
  • For one client's 5,000+ month-end orders, 90% of each base kit is pre-assembled
  • Boxes, labels and shrink wraps kits in-house

Worth knowing

  • No gift sets, displays or subscription boxes named; the kitting page is pitched at etailers and multi-level marketers
  • Promotional and sample kits
  • Retail-ready packaging
8

Fidelitone

Bundles, variety packs and retail display builds

Visit fidelitone.com

Fidelitone's listed Chicago site is a multi-client D2C and B2B fulfillment center at 1260 Karl Court in Wauconda, and it lists kitting, variety packs and retail display builds among its value-added services. Its kitting serves health and wellness, beauty, pet products and consumer electronics brands.

Strengths

  • Bundling and shrink wrap for B2B, retail and ecommerce orders
  • Promotional cards and inserts added to retail display builds
  • Assembly and testing alongside labeling and tagging

Worth knowing

  • States no retailer label or routing-guide rules for kits
  • No kitting case studies or volumes published
  • POP displays and PDQs
  • Retail-ready packaging
  • Light assembly

Kitting and contract packaging in Chicago

121 packaging and labeling services businesses operated in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area in 2024, by the BLS annual average count, a figure that takes in every contract packager, labeler and kitter coded to the industry. The 8 companies ranked here have buildings in 14 towns, and Joliet and Bolingbrook are the two towns with more than one of them: RJW and Saddle Creek in Joliet, RJW and Staci Americas in Bolingbrook. RJW alone has 14 sites across 6 of those towns, 6 of them in Romeoville.

Three of the 8, RJW, Saddle Creek and Staci Americas, also rank on the Chicago 3PL list, which compares general fulfillment warehouses on space, minimums and pricing. BelPak, Bay Cities and Visual Pak are packagers. G3 converts bulk inventory into retail-ready packs inside its own warehouse network, often in the same facility that stores it, which is how co-packing inside a 3PL warehouse runs.

Trucked kits from Illinois can reach 83% of the continental US population within a two-day drive. Rail-served buildings such as G3’s in Bedford Park sit in the hub that roughly 500 freight trains a day pass through, about a quarter of all US freight trains. Air shipments can go out through O’Hare, which logged about 8.48 billion lbs of all-cargo landed weight in 2025, 6th among US airports in preliminary FAA data.

Questions to ask a Chicago kitting company

  1. Will my kits be assembled in the Chicago-area building that stores the components, or trucked to another site first?
  2. Can I approve a sample kit before the run starts, and who signs it off on your side?
  3. When a component delivery comes up short at receiving, how and when do you tell me?
  4. What is your minimum kitting run?
  5. Which retailers' routing guides and label specs do you already ship kits to?
  6. If my kits hold food, which of your Chicago-area buildings carries the food-grade certification?

Chicago kitting FAQ

Which Chicago kitting companies build store displays?

Staci Americas is the only one of the 8 without POP or store display work. Bay Cities fills displays it designs and makes itself, and Visual Pak builds PDQs, wing displays and multi-vendor pallets.

Which kitting companies in Chicago run subscription boxes?

BelPak and Saddle Creek are the 2 of the 8 that name subscription boxes. Saddle Creek runs a subscription fulfillment program that adds marketing inserts to kitted orders, and BelPak builds the boxes on the secondary packaging lines that also turn out its gift sets and club packs.

Which Chicago kitting companies can ship kits to big-box retailers?

All but Fidelitone, 7 of the 8, state retailer labeling or shipping compliance for kits; Fidelitone lists SPS Commerce integration but no retailer label compliance for kits. Bay Cities names compliant rollouts for Costco, Walmart and Home Depot, BelPak names Walmart, Target and Amazon requirements, and RJW prints retailer-specific UC128 labels.

Which Chicago kitting companies are food-grade certified?

Food-grade certification is listed by 4 of the 8: BelPak, RJW Logistics Group, G3 Enterprises and Bay Cities. G3's is the AIB certification of one of its Bedford Park buildings, and BelPak states its facilities operate under SQF, HACCP and GFSI certifications.

How many packaging and labeling companies are in the Chicago area?

Across 2024 the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area averaged 121 packaging and labeling services businesses, by the BLS count.

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