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Packaging - 2002
Werit of Germany is planning to open a new £5m plastic containers factory on the Northbank Industrial Park in Salford early next year, with the creation of up to 75 jobs.
24-Dec-2002
Associated British Foods has sold its Allied Glass Containers packaging business to a management team backed by Close Brothers Private Equity.
17-Dec-2002
G-Plas has acquired additional premises and development land to extend its PVC films manufacturing operation in Crumlin, as part of a strategy to double in size over the next two years.
10-Dec-2002
Thomas Potts has sold BP Cook, its Harlow-based screen-printing subsidiary, to a former managing director.
03-Dec-2002
Babcock International has sold BMH Chronos Richardson, the Nottingham-based weighing and packing group with about 100 staff, to Premier Tech of Canada for a nominal sum.
03-Dec-2002
Bousfield, the supplier of printing equipment, has been acquired by Openshaw of Todmorden, creating a combined group with about 500 staff.
26-Nov-2002
William Clowes is considering plans to relocate its book printing business and 180 staff from Beccles to a new site in Lowestoft.
19-Nov-2002
Montgomery Litho has bought Hunter & Foulis, the Haddington-based printing company, out of receivership, saving 40 of the 70 jobs.
19-Nov-2002
Dataform has acquired Print Directive of Dudley for undisclosed terms, increasing its workforce to 115.
19-Nov-2002
Magnet Harlequin, the Uxbridge-based printing company, has undergone a management buy-out.
12-Nov-2002
Boston Matthews has acquired Munchy, the manufacturer of extrusion equipment, and production is being relocated from Wallingford to the Boston Matthews site in Worcester.
08-Nov-2002
CB Print Finishers of Newcastle has been bought out of administration by a management buy-out, and will now be called Hay Binders.
29-Oct-2002
MY Holdings has acquired Gallagher Printers of Waterford, in order to expand its healthcare cartons business in Ireland.
29-Oct-2002
Taylor Ward Taylor, the Exeter-based manufacturer of gifts and home accessories, has acquired R&C Imports, the Manchester-based giftware import and distribution company.
24-Oct-2002
Mundet UK, the converter of cigarette filter papers, has been acquired by Trierenberg of Austria, and its factory in Glossop is now planning to double capacity.
16-Oct-2002
Bishops Printers is setting up a new £1.5m headquarters for its printing business in Portsmouth, and expects to create 15 new jobs next year.
16-Oct-2002
Pims Holdings has acquired Jensen Press, the Yeovil-based litho printer, for undisclosed terms.
15-Oct-2002
Buccleuch Printers of Hawick has acquired the former McQueen's printing business at Langlee in Galashiels for undisclosed terms.
15-Oct-2002
Rexam is to acquire Nienburger Glas, the German glass container manufacturer with 1,270 staff, from Interbrew for £68m.
15-Oct-2002
United Glass is to invest £23m in the modernisation of its bottle manufacturing plant in Alloa over the next three years.
15-Oct-2002
Initial Packaging is to acquire Mopack Systems of Strabane and Holland & Pickering of Heywood, in a £7m deal that will create a new holding company called One Vizion.
08-Oct-2002
Boxfoldia, the carton manufacturer, is to undergo a management buy-out and relocate to smaller premises in Redditch.
08-Oct-2002
British Polythene has sold its automotive protective films packaging business to TVIP Corby.
04-Oct-2002
Wyndeham Press has sold Riverside Packaging Printers, the Newbury-based packaging company with 50 staff, to Northern Packaging Distributors.
01-Oct-2002
Avery Dennison has sold three labelling converting plants in High Wycombe, Germany and the Netherlands to a group of former managers operating under the name of Sentega.
01-Oct-2002
Promotional Packaging is planning to create a further 50 jobs at its new contract packing site in Lincoln.
30-Sep-2002
Hovat has acquired Wydata, the Tilbury-based barcode, stationery and digital printer, in a £5m deal.
24-Sep-2002
Kimberly Clark is seeking planning permission for a £25m investment at its paper mill in Barrow, which will involve the installation of extra drying equipment.
24-Sep-2002
SCA of Sweden has acquired two UK tissue manufacturers from Benedetti International for £9.4m - Birmingham-based Pendigo and Leeds-based KSS - and is now looking to consolidate its non-household operations at a new mill in Oakenholt, Flintshire.
23-Sep-2002
Ormolu Group is planning to relocate its Trafford Press printing business in Manchester to a new site nearby over the next few months.
17-Sep-2002
Exel is to acquire a number of supply chain management and packaging services operations in the US and UK from Power Packaging, including assets valued at £4.6m.
04-Sep-2002
Molins is looking to spend up to £20m on acquisitions to expand its packaging machinery business.
04-Sep-2002
Rexam is looking to spend up to £100m a year on acquisitions to expand its consumer packaging business, and is particularly interested in plastics and the European glass market.
30-Aug-2002
SJP UK, the St Neots-based board and label company, has been bought out of administration by ScandStick of Sweden.
28-Aug-2002
James Townsend & Sons, the Exeter-based label printer with 90 staff, has undergone a management buy-out backed by NMB-Heller.
28-Aug-2002
Payne Strapping has merged with Samuel Strapping Systems to form MJ Maillis UK, a combined manufacturer of steel and plastic strapping with operations in Nottingham, Hinckley, Kilnhurst and Strood.
28-Aug-2002
Jefferson Smurfit has acquired the Chelmsford-based stationery business of CA Coutts for £2.2m.
27-Aug-2002
CLF Packaging, the Huntingdon-based corrugated cases firm with 35 staff, has undergone a £1m management buy-out, and has also acquired Essex-based competitor Box-Wise for £0.5m.
27-Aug-2002
Hyway Printing has been bought out of administration by Montrose Press, with backing from venture capitalist Corval Investments.
20-Aug-2002
Optecon, the printing and direct mail company, is to create about 140 jobs at its new 85,000 sq ft headquarters in Leicester.
20-Aug-2002
Rexam has completed the sale of two Danish plastic containers businesses - Rexam Holmia and Rexam Closures & Containers - to Polimoon Holding of Denmark for £7.2m.
13-Aug-2002
Low & Bonar has sold Spila, its loss-making Italian plastics subsidiary, to Albanova, for a nominal sum.
02-Aug-2002
Wheatley Packaging, the flexible packaging printer with 140 staff, has been acquired by Frantschach Group, the Austrian printer.
23-Jul-2002
Mastermailer, the developer of a new stationery system that eliminates the need for envelopes, is planning to create up to 40 jobs at its new £2m manufacturing and administrative headquarters in Caerphilly.
23-Jul-2002
Rexam is to invest £40m in two new beverage can-making lines at sites in Naro Fominsk, Russia, and La Selva, Spain.
22-Jul-2002
DS Smith is to acquire Zewathener, the German bag-in-box packaging group with 80 staff, by buying a 51% stake from SCA Packaging and the remaining 49% from the current management.
17-Jul-2002
Macfarlane is to acquire Tom Brands Electrical Services, the Gourock-based provider of supply chain management services, for £2m.
05-Jul-2002
Bunzl has acquired Kenco Sales of Seattle for undisclosed terms, in order to expand its plastic and paper products business in the US.
02-Jul-2002
Bunzl has sold its paper distribution business to PaperLinX of Australia for £139m, and the proceeds will be used to reduce debt.
27-Jun-2002
Jefferson Smurfit, the Irish packaging group, is to undergo a £2.4bn management buy-out backed by US private equity firm Madison Dearborn Partners.
18-Jun-2002
Williams Lea has acquired Alistair McIntosh, the West Yorkshire-based print outsourcing company with 200 staff, for undisclosed terms.
17-Jun-2002
Beshara Press of Tewkesbury and sister company CentrePoint of Nottingham are to be acquired by Midlands Publishing Holdings.
11-Jun-2002
Avalon Printing Software of Leicester has been acquired by VantagePoint Systems of Canada for about £0.5m, and will become VantagePoint's retail packaging division.
11-Jun-2002
Decorative Sleeves, the manufacturer of shrink sleeve labels, is to relocate its Wakefield factory and 54 jobs to Pioneer Park, as part of a multi-million pound investment programme that will also involve the expansion of its Norfolk site.
10-Jun-2002
Willett International, the coding and labelling company, is planning to relocate its CIJ manufacturing operation from Corby to Asia over the next 12 months, while the research and development centre will move from Corby to Cambridge.
04-Jun-2002
Keenpac Holdings of Leicester has undergone a management buy-out from Bridgepoint Capital, with Bank of Scotland Corporate Banking providing a £20m debt and equity package.
04-Jun-2002
Servicetoken, the manufacturer of paint packaging products, is buying the Akzo Nobel paint factory in Haltwhistle, and plans to double its workforce from 30 to 60 and create a trading estate and interactive arts centre on the site.
04-Jun-2002
Bunzl has acquired Lockhart, the Reading-based supplier of catering equipment with annual sales of about £60m, from Sodexho.
28-May-2002
Waddies, the Livingston-based printer, has been acquired by Ormolu Group for undisclosed terms, and will be combined with Ormolu's Pillans & Wilson business in Edinburgh.
28-May-2002
Clarity Group has acquired Gazebo Products, the London-based stationery supplier with 45 staff, for undisclosed terms.
28-May-2002
Torday & Carlisle has sold Colin Stewart Minchem and Silgel Packaging to AMCOL International of the US for £9.5m.
24-May-2002
DS Smith Packaging has set up a new sheet plant group to manage 14 corrugated packaging sites across the country, following last year's acquisition of a number of Danisco Pack plants.
24-May-2002
CBX Couriers is setting up a new contract packing company in Derby called Octopus Collation Solutions, and requires 20 seasonal staff.
24-May-2002
USC Europe is closing its can printing factory in west London with the loss of about 140 jobs, in order to relocate the work and 28 staff to its site in Merthyr Tydfil.
14-May-2002
Print City is to relocate its printing business and up to 30 staff from Huddersfield to a larger 12,000 sq ft building at the Zenith Business Park in Barnsley in July.
14-May-2002
Communisis is to acquire Centurion, the Rickmansworth-based print management services company with 135 staff, for £42m.
14-May-2002
Temprint and Cornwall Lithographic Printers have merged their Redruth-based printing businesses into a newly formed holding company called Pryntya, with combined turnover of £4.8m.
25-Apr-2002
Automatic Handling Europe has acquired SHS Handling Systems, the manufacturer of integrated corrugating and materials handling solutions, and will relocate its Northwich operation to the SHS factory at Ellesmere Port.
23-Apr-2002
Thomas Potts is to acquire Fairway Logistics, the Slough-based print management company with 78 staff.
11-Apr-2002
PHS Group has acquired Teacrate, the crate rental company with 106 staff at depots in London, Manchester, Bristol, Birmingham and Edinburgh, for £15m.
10-Apr-2002
Rexam is to sell its Image Products coated films and papers business to Sun Capital of the US for £42m.
08-Apr-2002
BP Chemicals is to sell its Performance Films packaging business, including plants in Barnsley and Poland with more than 400 staff, to Parkside Flexibles of West Yorkshire for undisclosed terms.
05-Apr-2002
Clifford Thames Printing of Chelmsford has been bought out of receivership by a management team and is being renamed Montrose Press.
03-Apr-2002
Bridge Direct, the Nottingham-based print management company with annual turnover of £9m, has been bought out of receivership by local rival PPL.
03-Apr-2002
TeCmail has acquired Inchbrook, the printing company, for undisclosed terms, taking its annual turnover to more than £40m.
02-Apr-2002
Irish Bonding Company is to invest £9m in a new bottling plant for Guinness and other Diageo drinks at Marshalls Road in Belfast.
28-Mar-2002
Coppice Alupack, the Bridgend-based manufacturer of aluminium and board containers for the food industry with annual turnover of £18m, has undergone a management buy-out.
25-Mar-2002
Lawson Mardon has announced plans to invest £5m at its packaging factory in Workington, including the installation of a new printing press.
20-Mar-2002
United Glass is investing £1.2m in improvements at its glass recycling and processing plant in Kelliebank, Alloa.
19-Mar-2002
International Greetings has acquired a 500,000 sq ft production and distribution centre in Hirwaun, South Wales, in order to expand its Scandinavian Design gift wrap business.
18-Mar-2002
OCE, the printing company, is planning to build a new UK head office complex for about 400 staff at Langston Road in Loughton over the next 18 months, subject to agreement over the purchase of land from Epping Forest Council.
14-Mar-2002
Hackman Printers has acquired Caerphilly-based South Western Printers to create a new group called HSW Printers, and the combined workforce is expected to rise from 85 to 100 over the next year.
14-Mar-2002
Jubb is creating 50 new jobs at its plastic bottles factory in Leicestershire, due to the increased workload resulting from the recent acquisition of Barclay Stuart Plastics.
14-Mar-2002
Rutland Trust has sold its interests in Coppice Group, the Bridgend-based manufacturer of aluminium foil containers, to a new company called MELH 888 for £4.6m.
11-Mar-2002
Guiton Group, the publisher of newspapers in the Channel Islands, has sold its commercial printing business to J Howitt & Son for £1.1m.
07-Mar-2002
Ardagh is to acquire the Italian glass packaging operations of Consumers Packaging of Canada for £1.8m, and has also announced the closure of its Ringsend, Dublin, glass container plant.
01-Mar-2002
ControlP is to acquire the London operation of Colourflow out of receivership, in order to expand its Documedia Solutions printing business.
01-Mar-2002
Decorative Sleeves is planning to expand its display packaging plant in King's Lynn by 20,000 sq ft this year, and the 200-strong workforce is likely to rise slightly over the next few years.
01-Mar-2002
Polestar, the printing company, is to relocate its head office from central London to an 11,000 sq ft office in Milton Keynes in May.
26-Feb-2002
Linpac has sold its Cwmbran-based welded products division, which manufactures aerosols used to store glues and solvent, to management for £0.5m, securing 20 jobs.
26-Feb-2002
Low & Bonar is planning to expand its speciality materials business by spending up to £100m on a series of acquisitions this year.
21-Feb-2002
Gresham Trust has sold John Hampden Press, the manufacturer of branded retailer packaging with 125 staff, to management for £2.6m, and the business is being renamed John Hampden Packaging.
19-Feb-2002
Jubb has acquired Barclay Stuart Plastics, the Luton-based manufacturer of bottles and caps, and the two businesses will be combined onto its Leicester site.
19-Feb-2002
The Welsh Development Agency has announced that 10 new jobs are being created by Industrial Plastic Recyclers of Knighton, Powys, in order to convert plastic products into pellets for manufacturers.
19-Feb-2002
Viking Industrial Products, the supplier of adhesives, abrasives and packaging materials, has acquired Industrial & Safety Supplies of Leeds, creating a combined group with turnover of more than £3m.
14-Feb-2002
A&J Scott is to create up to 100 jobs over the next two years at its new timber pallet manufacturing plant in North Shields.
08-Feb-2002
Barony Universal has announced a £2m expansion at its aerosols supply business in Ayrshire, with the creation of 30 jobs.
05-Feb-2002
Fulmar has acquired Quadracolor, the London-based printing company, for £2m, and has also announced plans to relocate its WE Baxter commercial printing business from Lewes to a vacant site at Mitcham in Surrey.
04-Feb-2002
William Caple is to relocate its printing business from Leicester to sister company Southam FM in Warwickshire in February, which will involve the transfer of 40 jobs and the loss of a further 20 jobs.
31-Jan-2002
Plastek is to invest £1m expanding production at its plastic crates factory in Clydach Vale, with the creation of 55 jobs over the next four years.
30-Jan-2002
Jarvis Porter has sold its Leeds-based labels business to CCL Industries for £7m, and has also announced plans to rename itself Grovebirch.
28-Jan-2002
Hovat, the Kent-based food packaging company, has undergone a £3m management buy-out, and the subsequent acquisition of Ascom Addressing of Dartford will create one of the country's leading label printers.
22-Jan-2002
Betts is to create 50 jobs at its consumer packaging plant in Colchester, having decided to relocate its injection moulding business from Wrexham.
22-Jan-2002
Shotton Paper is to invest £77m in a new fibre pulp facility at its Deeside-based paper recycling plant, which will secure 500 jobs.
16-Jan-2002
Sealed Air is to close its protective packaging factory in Witham in January with the loss of 33 jobs, in order to relocate the business to a larger site in Kettering.
04-Jan-2002
Anglo American is planning to expand its Mondi International box-making division through the £234m acquisition of French forest products group La Rochette.
03-Jan-2002