Pampers — Wholesale Diaper Supply from Spain

You are buying cubic metres

Nappies are the purest volumetric cargo in this catalogue. A compressed poly pack weighs almost nothing for the room it takes, so a nappy container reaches the cubic capacity of the box while its permitted payload is barely touched. Nobody who loads them regularly thinks about weight at all; the entire exercise is fitting geometry into a rectangle.

That has one blunt commercial consequence. You are paying freight for space, so the unit cost drops sharply between a part-load and a full box, and buying nappies in part-pallet quantities is one of the most expensive habits in this trade. We do supply cases and pallets and there are perfectly good reasons to take them — testing a size split, plugging a gap in a listing, seeding a new account — but a buyer planning a year of supply should be modelling containers. Pampers sits inside our baby and family care range, and the rest of this page is about the two decisions that actually determine whether that container sells through: the size curve and the build.

The size curve is the order

Nobody who buys this brand at wholesale is buying a brand; that decision was made for them by the shopper years ago. What they are buying is a curve. The range climbs in numbered steps, newborn at one end and the junior sizes at the other, and every market works its way up that scale in a different set of proportions.

Several things pull it in different directions at once. Birth rates set the base of the ladder. The age at which children come out of nappies sets the top, and it varies more between markets than most buyers expect. The split between modern trade and independent retail sets the counts: Where supermarkets carry the volume, the order concentrates on the middle steps in big bags; where kiosks and independents do, it spreads across more steps in small ones. Purchasing power moves all of it, because in a squeezed market households buy smaller packs more often and skew to whichever sizes their own children are in rather than stocking ahead.

Get that curve wrong and the failure mode is specific and painful. The middle sizes clear in weeks, the ends of the ladder sit there, and the pallet nobody wants occupies exactly the warehouse space you needed for the reorder. We put no percentages on this page, because a curve borrowed from another importer in another country is worse than starting from nothing. If you hold sell-through data by size, send it and we will build to it. If you do not, we will reason it out with you on the enquiry from the market, the channel and the counts your shelf can physically hold.

Wipes are the dense line in a light load

Wipes look like an extension of the nappy order and behave nothing like one. They are wet product: a case of wipes is heavy for its size in a way nothing else on this page is, and in a load otherwise built entirely from air that makes them genuinely useful. They go at the bottom of the build, they contribute real payload to a container that has none to spare, and they stabilise a stack of very light pallets.

Commercially they are picked up rather than planned for, which means the sensible way to order them is as a proportion of the nappy volume instead of forecasting them on their own. They also want more care in storage than nappies do, since a liquid-containing pack is less tolerant of extremes at either end of the temperature range than a dry compressed one. If wipes are a meaningful share of your order rather than a top-up, say so, because it changes the build.

"How many pallets fit?" — what actually decides it

Buyers ask this on every first enquiry and they are right to. There is no constant to hand them, so what follows is the list of things that set the answer, roughly in the order they bite.

1. Size mix. Newborn packs and junior packs are two different loading problems; the same case count occupies a different volume.
2. Outer carton dimensions of the specific counts selected, which change with every count.
3. Pallet specification your destination accepts, which is not always the one we would otherwise build to.
4. Stacking height the cartons carry without deforming the packs beneath — the binding constraint more often than the floor space is.
5. Container type booked, including whether a high-cube is available on your service.

Change any one of those and the answer moves, so the build is worked out against the specific cases on your enquiry, and the carton quantity, the pallet configuration and the loading plan go in writing on the pro-forma while you can still change your mind about them. The general principles behind that calculation are set out in our guide to pallets and containers.

Compression packs and why the build matters more here

The pack a shopper picks up is a compressed poly bag, and it is also the primary shipping unit. There is no rigid carton between the product and the handling, so packaging integrity carries more commercial weight in this category than almost anywhere else. A split seam, a scuffed print face or a pack squeezed out of its shape is unsaleable at full price with perfectly good product inside it.

The countermeasures are all in the build: consistent tier alignment so no pack takes a point load, wrapping tight enough to hold the stack but not so tight that it crushes the top tier, corner protection where the height calls for it, and a stow plan that keeps light pallets out from under heavy ones. In a mixed load that last point is not a preference. We note the build on the packing list so your goods-in team can check what arrived against what was loaded.

Regional naming conventions, and why buyers ask

More enquiries open with this than with anything else. Production for one region and production for another do not share sub-brand names, do not number the sizes the same way, do not count the packs the same way, and do not print the same languages or declaration formats. An importer supplied out of North America for a decade is fluent in one of those systems and reads the other as a different product — which, on a shelf where the purchase is a habit and the pack is the cue, it effectively is.

What we supply is EU-market stock in the producer's own outer packaging, as an independent distributor of genuine goods rather than an appointed agent of the brand owner. If your listing was built on a different convention, say so at enquiry, because it changes which sizes and sub-ranges map onto your existing shelf plan, and that mapping is confirmed in writing before anything is loaded.

One last practical note on routing. Because this cargo is all volume, the inland leg from Madrid matters more here than on a dense line: it is roughly three hundred and fifty kilometres to Valencia and about six hundred and twenty to Barcelona, and a full load of nappies is a full truck long before it is a heavy one. Which gateway suits a given sailing is covered in our comparison of the two ports. Buyers who add feminine care to the same booking usually price the Always range at the same time, since the two share a shopper, a shelf and the same loading problem.