All4Labels expands through GPS-Rotomet

The renamed GPS-Rotomet becomes a fully owned subsidiary of All4Labels, while Daniele Grotto and Andrea Cerisara, who founded and developed the business over decades, become shareholders in All4Labels and part of the management team. 

To ensure business continuity, Daniele Grotto also retains the chairmanship of GPS-Rotomet and Andrea Cerisara continues to run the roll-fed and shrink sleeve businesses. 

The shopping bags division of the GPS group is not part of the agreement and remains under the full control of the Grotto family.

GPS Label and Rotomet together account for a total combined turnover of approximately 50m EUR in 2019, with their two facilities in Schio, Italy, serving both local and multinational customers with shrink sleeve and roll-fed labels for the food and beverage and home and personal care markets. The company runs both mid-web offset and CI flexo press technologies and has around 130 employees.

Adrian Tippenhauer, CEO of All4Labels Group, said: ‘We are extremely pleased and proud to welcome Mr Grotto and Mr Cerisara and the entire GPS Label and Rotomet employees as new partners and members of the All4Labels Group. With the new team on board and their world-class manufacturing facilities in Italy, we are strengthening our position in the shrink sleeve and roll-fed market and benefit from many years of experience in this segment. I would as well like to thank our chairman Romeo Kreinberg and the Triton team, especially Herbert Doleisch and Fabrizio Gualdi, for the great support in this transaction. Without their dedication, it would have not been possible to bring this to a success.’ 

The Triton Private Equity group became an investor in All4Labels in November 2019, representing a major step forward in the financial support available to the company – the 43 companies currently in Triton’s portfolio have combined sales of around 17.4 billion EUR and 96,700 employees. Since its founding, Triton has completed more than 70 investments and supported more than 260 acquisitions.

Daniele Grotto, founder and owner of the GPS Group, said: ‘We are extremely pleased to have the opportunity to contribute our labels business to such a globally excellent player in the packaging industry as All4Labels. We have reached an extremely important goal that allows GPS-Rotomet to further push its development and growth while leveraging the commercial and industrial synergies offered by being part of a global group. I would like to thank Adrian Tippenhauer, Romeo Kreinberg, the management team and all stakeholders of All4Labels for the synergistic approach and thinking and for embracing Andrea Cerisara and myself in their team. We appreciate them giving us the chance to ensure continuity to our venture and directly contributing to such an interesting success story.’

Global network
GPS-Rotomet joins an All4Labels Group which already has a global network of 29 productions sites with more than 3,000 employees. Its annual turnover is over 520m EUR, and the company claims to service over 5,000 customers worldwide, printing over 60 billion labels a year. 

All this has been achieved in just four years since the original partners Rako Etiketten, X-Label and Baumgarten came together, combining production sites across Europe, Russia, China and Latin America. 

The last remaining piece of the jigsaw is of course the US, and Adrian Tippenhauer tells L&L a North American partner is now under active consideration. 

Technology-wise, All4Labels continues to specialize in the label and flexible packaging markets, offering the full range of products from wet-glue and PS labels to in-mold, shrink sleeves and wraparound labels to laminate tubes, labeled tubes, flexible packaging, folding cartons and thermoformed trays. 

The benefit of the Rotomet expansion will be felt particularly in the shrink sleeve and wraparound label capabilities of the group. 

All4Labels already has significant shrink sleeve and flexible packaging capacity at its Nuceria and Folienprint operations, with the latter producing digital shrink sleeve products using HP 20000 production equipment. Indeed, because of the historic expertise of Rako in digital printing, the All4Labels group has a deep investment in digital, with over 50 digital press installations globally. Hybrid and digital embellishment technologies are high on the priority list for future investment. 

Digital integration is also seen in All4Labels’ Label Intelligence division which specializes in combining digitally printed serialized labels with cloud integration for track and trace and product authentication applications.