Tissue manufacturers join together to create retail business
Northwood Group has acquired a significant share in Consuma Paper Products (CPP) and will combine with Northwood’s Birmingham-based retail business to create a retail-focused firm.
The move will increase the groups’ capacity and enable it to create cost-effective products at its Birmingham and Grantham facilities.
Northwood’s retail business, Northwood Consumer Limited (NCL), and CPP will create multi-site tissue manufacturing, offering a complete range of rolled and folded tissue products.
Northwood has supplied CPP with tissue for more than 20 years and has provided both virgin and recycled tissue either from its own UK Mills or from global supply partners.
Oday Abbosh, Founder & CEO of Better All Round, CPP’s parent company said: “Joining forces now is a natural extension of our relationship with Northwood, bringing together the best of two groups in serving our customers. Together, we will have increased capacity and be able to leverage new technology to deliver on our sustainability agenda for the benefit of all our customers.
“In a market that remains under significant pressure from a broad set of macro and geopolitical events, this will allow our customers to benefit from scale, multiple synergies, and shared expertise”.
More recently, the partnership has evolved further with Northwood’s UK mills manufacturing recycled paper for some of CPP’s retail customers, enabling them to reduce their carbon footprint.
The partnership aims to become ‘The Sustainable Paper Company’ with local supply, vertical integration across the supply chain, consolidated truckloads and new technology in the paper space delivering on lower energy usage as well as using less fibre.
Paul Fecher, Chairman of Northwood Group said “Our heritage in tissue production, sourcing and converting across the Away from Home and Retail sectors, together with our forward-looking investments in state-of-the-art machinery, allow us to offer innovative products to our combined clients in the private label area.”
