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Distant Village--Nothing Typical

America's premier specialist in hand-made and sustainable packaging - to your specifications. Packaging that speaks to your branding! Join the list of very distinguished clients in the fine markets of specialty food and beverages, fine resorts, chocolatiers, and more! A talented design team will create unique packaging from exciting materials to deliver eye catching boxes, bags, and baskets for your specialty product. Distant Village also has an on-line catalog with ready-to-ship Boxes, Baskets, and Bags. Ready to deliver in just 1-4 days! Discover Handmade Quality packaging and enjoy that exclusive edge!

Distant Village's continued expansion and growth has been fueled through growing revenue, a constant introduction of new and interesting products, a well-trained team of professionals, and just plain hard work, dedication paired with a commitment to excellence.

Richard Cohen founded Distant Village in July 2000. Having established work experience in international business, strategy, and technology, Mr. Cohen - a seasoned traveler to more than 50 countries - developed strong relationships with the world's finest designers of hand-made packaging. Distant Village has established exclusive design and production teams with international designers of handmade products. We strive to create mutually beneficial relationships throughout the global community through fair and ethical business practices. We hope to create benefits for our customers by introducing them to truly innovative well-conceived packaging solutions; for emerging international desingers; for the Distant Village team with enriching and rewarding opportunity; and for global communities with profit-sharing support.

The Global Community and Distant Village

Distant Village is an integral partner within the Global Community in which it operates. We strive to support our community members. We are commited to donate a portion of our profits towards organizations that contribute toward the progress and betterment of developing nation communities.

Quality Products

Nothing Typical. That is our motto and we hope that you will agree after taking a closer look. Our design teams confidently explore completely new packaging concepts. We want you to be excited, impressed, and intriqued when you see our newest styles, designs, and concepts. We enjoy hearing your feedback too! We are constantly adding new products - so there is always something new and interesting to see. We take a great pride in bringing our clientele truly unique and innovative products that make them shine like stars in front of their customers!

Our Mission

We are working hard toward the goal of being the world's premier provider of hand-made packaging from emerging international designers. We will provide our customers with high-quality products. We will provide excellent and responsive customer service. We will leverage proven technology and process improvement to establish efficient and effective operations. We will create respectful relationships with our customers, suppliers, and Distant Village team. We strive to bring more awareness of and support to the developing communities we work within.