30 March 2007
SOUND ORGANIC GROWTH PRODUCES EXCELLENT RESULTS AT COPAPHARM EUROPE
A healthy 8.5% increase in turnover at Copapharm Europe SCRL has been achieved purely through organic growth, reflecting the pharmaceutical alliance’s developing strength in the pharma packaging and labelling sector.
Copapharm Europe’s 2006 figures show a total turnover in 2006 of 264.8 million euros (244.2 million euros in 2005), and reflect the alliance’s increasing share of the supply of printed packaging to the pharmaceutical sector, with 85% of Copapharm turnover being in pharma and health care (up from 84% in 2005). The remaining 15% is mainly in bodycare, food, confectionary and consumer products.
Copapharm Europe companies specialise in producing cartons, labels, leaflets and associated services for leading pharmaceutical and healthcare customers, including a number of multi-national pharmaceutical companies. Last year the alliance, which employs 2200 people, produced 5.2 billion cartons, 3.5 billion leaflets and 1.6 billion labels.
Copapharm’s 10 member companies are Faller (Germany), Packart and Rotanotice (France), Palladio and Zannini (Italy), Goldprint (Belgium), Storey Evans (Great Britain) and Icesa, Pans and Cartonplex (Spain). They have a total of 19 manufacturing sites across Europe, in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Serbia Montenegro, Spain, the UK and Ireland. These companies work closely, both individually and collectively, with pharmaceutical manufacturers to supply appropriate packaging requirements. Together, they have a total capacity of 6.9 billion folding carton units, 4.6 billion leaflet units and 2.8 billion label units across Europe.
Chairman of Copapharm Europe, Bruno Chorzelewski, described the growth as ‘very encouraging’ and added:
“Customers value the ’on-the-ground expertise’ provided by the sites of the individual Copapharm companies, giving a local and direct service at the same time as having combined facilities and capacity across Europe for multi-site pan-European supply. The creation of Copapharm Europe SCRL from the Copapharm Alliance has helped in the completion and signing of a number of single supply agreements delivering products to customers’ multi sites from Copapharm sites in several countries.”
Copapharm Europe companies are continuously developing technologies to raise packaging standards, including secure file transfer, new anti-counterfeiting measures and the use of Braille.
Further information on Copapharm Europe is available from the Copapharm Europe website at www.copapharm.com, by emailing info@copapharm.com or by telephoning Sylvia Wieloch on 0049 6732 93 63 52.
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