Nuceria Group joins All4Labels

Leading Italian package printing group Nuceria has joined forces with All4Labels to boost the group’s global reach. Through the merger with Nuceria, the All4Labels Group will reach a total turnover exceeding 500 million euros with 29 production facilities across the globe.

The Nuceria Group, founded in 1989 by Antonio Iannone as a printer of tapes, is today is one of Italy’s leading package printing groups, with a staff of more than 250 located across four production plants in Milan and Turin in the north, and Nocera and Salerno south of Naples. Commented Adrian Tippenhauer, co-CEO, All4Labels Group: ‘This new combination marks another milestone in the success story of both All4Labels and Nuceria. Nuceria is an outstanding company. Through its innovative and customer-focused approach the Iannone family has managed to significantly outperform the market over the last decades, growing above 10 percent year-on-year. We are proud to welcome them to our team. Together we will be able to offer our customers a wider production footprint and globalize our wine and spirits activities as an additional market segment.’

To guarantee business continuity, the Iannone family will remain in charge of the group’s activities in Italy. Antonio Iannone will be responsible for the Italian operations, while general manager Guido Iannone takes up responsibilities at board level. ‘Becoming part of this great family is for all of us a source of great stimulus for improvement and growth. We will bring our energy and creativity into this partnership,’ said Guido Iannone.

The post-merger global integration process started at the beginning of July and will last for six months.

Complimentary operations

All4Labels was formed in 2016, when it became the world’s third largest label converting group with the merger of Rako Group, Baumgarten and X-Label.

The headquarters of the group is located in Witzhave near Hamburg, Germany. When the company was formed there were four joint CEOs, each with different areas of responsibility: Matthias Kurtz (supply chain), Adrian Tippenhauer (sales and business development), Tim Fiedler (finance) and Jan Oberbeck (sales & business development).

Guido Iannone, will become a member of the All4Labels global management board and takes over responsibility for one of the global sales business units.

Below this group structure are joint teams focused on R&D, machine engineering, best practice, quality management and sustainability.

Geographically, All4Labels already spans key regions of the globe, with plants throughout Latin America, central and eastern Europe and China – and now across Italy.

Europe is still seen as an area with major growth potential. Wine and spirits is one area where the group is focusing, and Nuceria is particularly strong in this sector following its 2014 acquisition of Appia Etichette, in the wine-growing area of Piedmont, an acquisition which added 6,000sqm of production space. All4Labels is already strong in the wine and spirits market segment in Latin America, opening up possibilities for global branding projects and the exchange technical and marketing information within the expanded group.

Nuceria and All4Labels already share a long list of blue chip global brand customers, and both companies have demonstrated a commitment to efficient supply chain management, reduced cycle times and waste elimination. As reported recently in L&L, Nuceria is actively involved in release liner sustainability projects with its Italian customers.

In terms of technology, All4Labels has a strong focus on digital – not just presses (Rako was a major HP Indigo customer with a hall of machines including multiple 20000s), but also digitization of the whole label supply chain. Nuceria made its first move into digital with the acquisition of Appia Etichette, and both All4Labels and Nuceria have recently diversified into hybrid digital-flexo technology with the purchase of Nilpeter Panorama machines.

Nuceria Group’s Milan and Turin operations are focused primarily on pressure-sensitive labels, while the plants in the south of Italy produce a wide variety of package printing products, including shrink sleeves, wet-glue (sheet-fed offset) labels, folding cartons and flexible packaging. Nuceria is currently making a major investment in wide web flexible packaging, having gained experience in mid-web widths.