The vision of the merger was to create a clear European leader in a tough envelope market and to speed up growth within the ProPac concept: A unique range of products and solutions for light packaging and gift wrapping.

The perfect geographical match between HAMELIN's Envelopes Division and BONG combined with scale savings, and the individual strengths of the two companies will ensure a bright future for the new BONG.

The new company has a turnover of SEK 3,5 billion (about 350 million Euros), and some 2.400 employees in 15 countries.

Today, BONG is the leading European provider of envelopes and specialised packaging products with strong market positions in Scandinavia, Germany, France, UK and Russia. In particular ProPac exhibits fast growth in its Mailing, E-business and Retail concept.

More information is available on the BONG website: www.bong.com