Abstract: A tray for receiving and supporting a group of bottles, particularly plastic bottles of a lightweight nature. The tray, made from precut paperboard or corrugated paperboard or other relatively stiff sheet material, has parallel top and bottom surfaces spaced vertically. The top surface has an opening complementary to the border configuration about the cylindrical sides of bottles within a rectangular group. This is presented in the form of scallops, each scallop being semi-circular to frictionally engage the barrel of a bottle about the border of the group. The heels of the bottles rest upon the bottom surface of the tray for vertical support. The bottles are frictionally engaged about their barrels to maintain the group of bottles within the tray by slight compressive tangential engagement of the bottles with one another.