This segment is comprised of two businesses:
On the continent we have corrugated packaging manufacturing in France, Italy, Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia. Our footprint in France has expanded this year with the acquisition of Otor, now DS Smith Packaging France. We also have an associate corrugated packaging business in Ukraine.
Revenue: £599.4 million
Employees: c. 3,800
Manufacturing locations: 27
Market positions:
- No1 in France for corrugated packaging supplied to fast moving consumer goods customers
- No1 in Ukraine for corrugated packaging
- Strong local positions in Italy, Poland and Slovakia
Market and business background
- The market for corrugated board across continental Europe is estimated at c. 30 billion m2 (Source: FEFCO (European Federation of Corrugated Board Manufacturers)) of which France and Poland comprise c. 15% and c. 7.5% respectively.
- Our continental European business now includes the operations purchased as part of the Otor acquisition. In total we now have 27 sites throughout Europe, in France, Italy, Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia. DS Smith in continental Europe produces c. 1.3 billion m2 of corrugated board on an annualised basis. DS Smith also manufactures recycled paper, with annualised output of c. 300 thousand tonnes, approximately half of which is corrugated case material, largely used by our corrugated packaging operations, and the remainder is solid board, sold externally.
- Our customer base for our corrugated packaging is 65% fast moving consumer goods, with our largest customer in continental Europe comprising under 4% of the revenue of the division.
For further information visit:
www.dssmith-kaysersberg.com
www.dssmithpackaging.fr
Head Offices:
DS Smith Kaysersberg
CS 10
77 Route de Lapoutroie
68240 Kaysersberg
France
Tel: +33 (0) 3 89 78 30 00
DS Smith Packaging France
8 Terrasse Bellini
92800 Puteaux
Paris
France
Tel: +33 (0)1 49 01 48 48
