Zeus has announced its acquisition of The Weedon Group, one of the UK’s largest independent integrated corrugated manufacturers. This acquisition underscores Zeus Group’s increased focus on sustainable packaging, investing in paper-based solutions over plastic-based production.
Weedon Group has revenues in excess of GBP 30 million per annum and over 250 staff across two UK locations in Manchester and Staffordshire. The acquisition of Weedon Group takes Zeus’s expected annualised revenues to Euro 560 million.
Keith Ockenden, Zeus Group CEO said: “The acquisition of Weedon Group is a key facet of Zeus Group’s Vertical Integration Strategy. We now have robust in-house capabilities along the entire paper supply chain, from raw material processing to manufacturing, right through to distribution and retail. Our investment strategy is also focussing on paper-based solutions over traditional plastic-based production.”
The Weedon Group is an integrated manufacturer of corrugated packaging, including E-commerce, retail-ready packaging, prefilled point of sale display, and industrial transit packaging. Supported by its Manchester-based corrugator Weedon Group offers its customers full Retail expertise POS Fulfilment capabilities with bonded warehouse facilities plus full design and testing facilities.
Zeus is the independently owned global packaging group.
