Switzerland and the Baltic States are new members of the PackSynergy network
The expansion of PackSynergy AG continues: Switzerland and the Baltic States are the new members of the PackSynergy network. It is the largest network of medium-sized, owner-managed packaging retailers.
6 March 2020
As the largest network of medium-sized, owner-managed packaging retailers, the PackSynergy network has also opened up Switzerland and the Baltic States since 1 March 2020. With Coplax Verpackungen AG and SOMI UAB, the network of regional market leaders now has 20 member companies with around 40 locations in 18 countries.
Having already gained new members from Denmark, the UK, Serbia, Croatia and northern Germany in 2018 and 2019, the network is now expanding to include Switzerland and the Baltic states. PackSynergy CEO Thomas A. Baur will manage the association as a network brand in future and sees PackSynergy as a fundamental competitive tool for the packaging industry in Europe.
PackSynergy CEO Thomas A. Baur is delighted about the new members Coplax and SOMI UAB. (Image: PackSynergy)
PackSynergy CEO Thomas A. Baur is „delighted to be working with the Companies Coplax and SOMI UAB We are delighted to welcome two new, committed partner companies to our PackSynergy family. With the Baltic States and Switzerland, our network is growing by two important packaging markets.“
Coplax Packaging AG
Coplax Verpackungen AG, based in Zug, Switzerland, is an international family-run company and belongs to the Switzerland's leading packaging specialist. As a system provider, Coplax develops holistic packaging concepts from product-related packaging advice to CAD packaging development, warehousing and professional logistics, right through to the needs-based delivery of packaging materials.
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„Products and services meet the highest quality requirements. All Coplax processes are DIN EN ISO 9001 certified,“ says Roger Welti, Managing Director of Coplax. With regard to the new PackSynergy membership, Welti is particularly looking forward to „the international exchange of experience with the partner companies, the strengthening of our market position through cooperation within the network and optimised purchasing conditions within the network.“
SOMI UAB
SOMI UAB with Head office in Vilnius covers the entire Baltic States with 4 locations in Lithuania. The company was founded in 1992 and has been in business for over a decade. Market leader in logistics and packaging.
„In addition to large international companies, our customers also include the majority of companies in the Baltic states and public organisations,“ explains Ingrida Slidžiauskienė, Executive Director of SOMI. Slidžiauskienė expects the partnership within the PackSynergy group to „give us even more clout, new ideas, products and solutions, as well as an additional boost for the further development of the company. In a world without borders for buying and selling, expertise and solutions are becoming the most important assets. We are therefore very much looking forward to the partnership and the transfer of knowledge within the PackSynergy team.“
PackSynergy as a European network brand
PackSynergy CEO Thomas A. Baur also brings news from the latest PackSynergy network member meeting. „Together, we have decided to expand our PackSynergy brand. as a European network brand in the future and manage them. In this way, we explicitly combine our regional strength with our European presence. PackSynergy gives international customers and suppliers cross-border access to our continent's locations and markets. At the same time, the association of PackSynergy members in the extended network with suppliers and industry partners forms an essential knowledge pool and industry think tank.“
With a view to the European packaging market, Baur sees his association as „a elementary competitive instrument. This is because the companies can remain independent and self-determined companies in the PackSynergy partner team and still assert themselves against chain store and investor-driven competitors thanks to the power of the network.
[infotext icon]PackSynergy is Europe's largest network of owner-managed packaging retailers. Its member companies are medium-sized market leaders in their respective regions and operate as a co-operative network of independent companies. The companies in the PackSynergy network offer packaging materials and packaging technology for industry, retail and catering, develop customised solutions, design packaging processes and provide logistics services just in time and across national borders.
Founded in 1998, PackSynergy today counts 20 member companies with around 40 locations in Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Finland, Great Britain, Croatia, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and the Czech Republic[/infotext].
