Verpack Strengthens its Operations in the Luxury Sector

The Group's operations cover all carton applications: traditional printing and UV, carton boxes, transparent packaging, medium and large sets of presentation boxes and thermoformed blockers.

31/10/06 Chesapeake becomes CLP PACKAGING and thereby benefits from business and operational synergies through the subsidiaries of the VERPACK Group.

The sales of CLP Packaging, a specialist in paperboard and plastic folding cartons and rigid set-up boxes, should attain approximately €25 million in 2006. Thereby the Group will double its sales and reach €50 million with a team of 330 people and become a leader in packaging for the luxury, wines and spirits industries through its subsidiaries Cartonnages Guillaume, Allpack (composite tubes) and from now on CLP.

The Group's operations cover all carton applications: traditional printing and UV, carton boxes, transparent packaging, medium and large sets of presentation boxes and thermoformed blockers.

The Group has 6 plants in France and a development and production unit in China.
 
"We are capable," says Jean Claude Viers, President of the Group, "of offering our customers a full range of services, from consulting during the design for a packaging project, be it simple or complex, to the printing and conditioning, in our plants in France or in Asia."

With this new acquisition the VERPACK Group focuses on its two core businesses: paperboard and plastic packaging, thus pursuing its external growth strategy for a new campaign towards international markets.
 
Thierry Leprat, formerly of the Danone Group where he directed the BSN packaging subsidiary from 1997 to 2001, joined the Verpack Group on 19 September 2006 as chief operating officer of CLP Packaging.