Carton packaging: Italy’s Pusterla 1880 is teaming up with the UK company London Fancy Box

Jean-Yves Bourgeois

25 November 2013

Pusterla 1880 SpA (Pusterla) and The London Fancy Box Co Ltd (LFB) announce a strategic alliance that will lead to LFB becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of Pusterla during 2014, with Christopher and Matthew Lawson, principal shareholders of the LFB, joining the Meana family as minority shareholders in Pusterla 1880 at that point. This will create one of the largest luxury packaging groups in Europe!

Pusterla (40 million euros in turnover, 300 people) based in Italy with manufacturing facilities in Milan, France and Romania have been manufacturing since 1880. Their product range covers rigid boxes and carton supplying into the Wines & Spirits and Perfume & Cosmetics market as well as other luxury sectors. Pusterla is, and will remain, owned and managed by the Meana family.

LFB (20 million euros in turnover, 180 people) based in Dover UK shares a long history (115 years of family ownership) and supplies presentation packaging to the beautycare, entertainment, wines & sprits and publishing markets.

The combined experience and capability of the two companies will enable the most innovative solutions for customers in terms of design, flexibility, and capacity. The LFB management team will remain in place and be strengthened by the appointment of Roberto Marini, the current General Manager of Pusterla, as a non-executive director.

“We have been looking for some time to increase our luxury packing capacity in Europe. LFB represents the perfect fit for us with a complementary market position; we are delighted to have reached agreement with this this long standing and prestigious, family owned company,” commented Roberto Marini.

As per Christopher Lawson, CEO of LFB, he said this opportunity was “the most exciting for our business in a generation. The combined group will have an unrivalled capability to meet the demanding requirements of our market sectors within Europe.”