Always Feminine Care — Wholesale Supply from Belgium

Feminine care is a planned, non-discretionary line: reordered on a cycle rather than bought on impulse, and noticed the same week a facing runs empty. FMCG Depot supplies Always sanitary pads, liners and pantyliners in export quantities from Aalter in Belgium, as part of the baby & family care export range we ship through Antwerp and Rotterdam to buyers in more than 60 countries. The useful part of this page is the container, not the assortment list. Pads and liners are light for the space they occupy, so the load is planned by volume rather than weight, and that governs how it is combined, stowed and priced.

The Always pad and liner range, by absorbency and format

Trade buyers list this category by SKU family rather than by individual pack, and the families are consistent across most European artwork: Ultra in its standard, long and night pack variants; Maxi in the value formats; and the daily liner and pantyliner range that sits beside them on the same bay. Within each family the packs split by absorbency step, by wings or no wings, and by count — smaller counts for cash-and-carry, kiosk and impulse trade, larger counts and multipacks for supermarket, discount and e-commerce channels. Tell us which families and which counts your fixture actually runs and we quote against the stock genuinely available at that moment rather than against a published range list. Most buyers who take feminine care from us price Pampers wholesale supply on the same enquiry, because the two lines share a shopper, a shelf and — as below — a container.

• Always Ultra — standard, long and night pack variants
• Always Maxi — value formats for high-rotation channels
• Daily liners and pantyliners in normal and long counts
• Wings and non-wings options across the absorbency steps
• Singles, larger counts and multipacks selected by channel
• Genuine brand-owner stock in original manufacturer packaging

Which formats a channel actually lists

Pharmacy and parapharmacy buyers range narrow and deep, holding the recognised counts and reordering them constantly. Supermarket buyers want the full ladder present so the shopper never trades out of the brand. Cash-and-carry accounts move on smaller counts and price-marked formats, while discount channels and marketplace sellers want a short list of high-turn packs in volume rather than range breadth. Send us your channel with the enquiry: the right answer for a pharmacy group is not the same set of cases as the right answer for an online reseller.

Why feminine care and baby care travel in the same container

Hygiene paper goods are low-density cargo. A container loaded only with pads and liners fills its cubic space long before it approaches its permitted payload, which means a single-line feminine care booking leaves paid-for weight capacity unused on every sailing. This is the exact inverse of a detergent load, which reaches its weight ceiling with cube to spare. The practical consequence for a buyer is that feminine care is rarely the cheapest thing to ship on its own, and almost always the cheapest thing to ship alongside something else — either another bulky hygiene line that shares its rotation, or a denser line that closes the payload gap. That is why the strongest orders on this page are mixed ones.

How a low-density hygiene load is planned

The build of a hygiene load is set by four interacting things: the outer carton dimensions of the packs you select, the pallet specification your destination accepts, the stacking height the cartons carry without deforming the packs beneath, and the container type booked. Change the pack count and the whole build changes with it, which is why we publish no configuration — a figure that is right for one Ultra count is wrong for the next. We work it out against your actual case mix and state the carton build, pallet build, quantities and loading plan in writing on the pro-forma against the allocation offered, before anything is committed.

Branded EU stock against unbranded and OEM supply

Search for sanitary pads at wholesale and much of what comes back is unbranded or own-label production offered by manufacturers, not branded stock offered by distributors. Those are two different products sold to two different buyers. We supply genuine brand-owner Always stock, EU-sourced, in original manufacturer packaging, with artwork, declarations, batch coding and date coding intact. We do not overlabel, repack or supply lookalike equivalents. If your requirement is own-label manufacture we are not the right supplier for it; if it is branded stock that a customs officer and a retail buyer both recognise, batch traceability is the reason to buy this way.

Pack language, market conventions and destination fit

Feminine care packs carry the language set, declaration format and pack conventions of the market they were produced for, and European artwork is not automatically the right artwork for every destination. Some import authorities expect specific language on the outer pack, and some retail customers set their own requirements on top of that. This is a question to settle at enquiry stage rather than at shipping stage, because it determines which stock we go looking for on your behalf. Tell us the destination market and what your authority and your retail customer require, and we confirm in writing what the available stock actually carries and what would still need arranging at your end.

Where Always feminine care rotates hardest

Demand for European-sourced branded feminine care concentrates in a few recognisable lanes. Gulf and wider Middle Eastern importers buy European artwork for modern trade and pharmacy. West African importers, Nigeria prominent among them, take volume on the value counts through wholesale-to-independent distribution. Southeast Asian and Caribbean buyers lean to the premium families for supermarket listings. These are patterns in our enquiry book, not a market study, and they matter for one reason: the lane changes the format split, and the format split changes the load plan.

Documents that travel with a hygiene consignment

Goods move EXW, FOB, CIF or DAP with a commercial invoice, a packing list itemised to case level, and EUR.1 movement certificates or Certificates of Origin issued where your entry requires them. Our logistics pages set out what each document does and when preferential origin is worth requesting; here it is enough to say a hygiene container clears faster when the packing list matches the physical build exactly, which is why we state the build before loading. If you are still assembling a supplier base, our complete guide to wholesale FMCG sourcing covers what to verify first.

Consolidating the rest of the container

Because a feminine care load runs out of space before weight, the sensible companions are dense lines that use the payload left over. Household laundry does that job well: importers routinely add Ariel wholesale supply for European and Middle Eastern shelves, or Tide wholesale supply where Tide is the name their market recognises, and a few pallets of detergent turn a light container into a balanced one. Buyers listing a pharmacy or parapharmacy fixture more often add Vichy wholesale supply, which is denser again and sells to the same channel. Mixed loads are quoted as one shipment, on one set of documents, under one Incoterm.

Before you fix the ordering pattern

Feminine care rotates predictably, which makes it a candidate for holding stock close to the market rather than shipping to order every cycle. If duty timing or working capital is shaping your ordering rhythm, our explainer on when bonded stock makes sense is worth reading before you fix the pattern for the year, because the answer changes what quantity you should be asking us to price.