Essel Propack

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EPL
Company type Public
NSE:  EPL
BSE:  500135
IndustryTube Packaging
Founded1982 in Mumbai
FounderSubhash Chandra
Headquarters Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Anand Kripalu (MD & CEO)
RevenueIncrease2.svg₹2,773 crore (US$330 million) (2019)
Owner The Blackstone Group (52%) [1]
Number of employees
2700+ (2014)
Website www.eplglobal.com

EPL Limited (formerly Essel Propack Limited) is a global tube-packaging company owned by The Blackstone Group headquartered in Mumbai. [2] It is a specialty packaging manufacturer of laminated plastic tubes for the FMCG and Pharma space. [3] [4]

In 2013, Essel Propack employed more than 2,600 people, and operated 24 facilities in 11 countries, [5] selling more than six billion tubes each year and claims to be the world's largest plastic tubes manufacturer. [6] As of 2009, the company had a global market share of 33% in the toothpaste tube packaging industry. [7]

History

The company was formed from the merger of two pre-existing companies, Essel Packaging and Propack AG led by then CEO Cyrus Bagwadia. [8] [9]

In 2002, Essel Propack set up a 60,000 sq.ft, US$15 Million manufacturing plant in Danville, Virginia, to make toothpaste tubes for Procter & Gamble's North American market. [3] [10] [11] In the same year, the company set up its fourth plant in China. [12]

The company was acquired by The Blackstone Group in 2019 during an assets sale of the debt-ridden Essel Group. [2] The company was renamed to EPL Limited in October 2020. [13]

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