German Patent Application DE 39 32 441 discloses a reclosable folding box that includes a front wall and a rear wall as well as two side walls which connect the front wall and the rear wall, a base part and a top closure tab. The closure tab is connected, via a fastening flap, to an insertion tongue. This folding box does not provide any possible means for hanging it on a hook.
German Patent Application DE 4322555 likewise discloses a reclosable, cuboidal folding box. This folding box comprises a rear wall, which is formed by an outer side-wall part and an inner side-wall part, a front wall, two side walls which connect the front wall and the rear wall, a base closure and a top closure. The outer side-wallhung up as desired. Furthermore, the appearance of the box is adversely affected and it is no longer possible for the box to be displayed to the customer.
Conversely, producing the folding box from thicker, more stable, material means that, although the hanging tab can be subjected to tensile loading to a much greater extent, a large amount of material is wasted unnecessarily at the same time because the rest of the walls of the folding box are over-dimensioned.
DE 19541904 discloses a similar folding box. The folding box comprises a front wall, a rear wall, a right-hand side wall, which connects the front wall and the rear wall, and a left-hand side wall. The box has a base closure, which is formed by four base-closure tabs, and a top