New Management Team Brings New Name To The Marketplace

A new management team is to roll out a rebranding campaign for one of Europe’s leading players inpackaging for the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries.

Tom Reid, ManagingDirector Nampak Europe, has unveiled the team that will oversee the change fromM.Y. Healthcare to Nampak Healthcare this Autumn.

With its pan-Europeanoperation comprising 11 manufacturing sites and an administration centre inLuxembourg, Nampak Healthcare employs 900 people and offers a specialistproduct portfolio comprising cartons, patient information leaflets, labels andfoils for blister packs.

The UK management teamunder Gerard Harford, Regional Director UK, has been put in place toco-ordinate the UK sales operation, maximise synergies between the sites anddrive factory efficiencies.

Regional Director forItaly, Enrico Folchini and Regional Director for Northern Europe, Frank Filippshave also been appointed, in addition to Olivier Antille as Divisional FinanceDirector and Jon Clark as Divisional Purchasing & Projects Director.

Tom Reid said: “The newname for our Healthcare Division builds on the global Nampak brand and all thequalities it encapsulates. Nampak Healthcare will continue investing instate-of-the-art technology so that we can meet the stringent requirements ofcustomers now and in the future.”.

Nampak Healthcare isbacked by the considerable resources and financial stability of the globalNampak Group which manufactures the most diverse range of packaging products inthe world. The Group, which operates in 17 countries in Africa and Europe,employs 20,000 staff, exports to over 60 countries worldwide and has an annualturnover of £1 billion.