Abstract: A container suitable for shipping and dispensing a plurality of individual products is disclosed. The container conforms with accepted beverage industry handling and distribution practices, is conveniently transported from the point of retail sale by the consumer, and facilitates the consumer's dispensing of individual products from the container. The container includes a carton that is adapted with a zone of weakness to break partially away along predetermined lines of weakness. This structure forms a pair of interhinged trays having a common handle between them. The contents of each tray are then disposed in a position that facilitates placing the carton in the consumer's refrigerator without the need for adjusting the spacing of shelves.

Abstract: A carton having an incipient handhold that is adapted to partially break away from surrounding portions of a carton wall, and to sequentially collapse in a predetermined reverse folding or "concertina" fashion, to provide a folded load-bearing handhold structure.