Discover our history :
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1947
Creation of « Papeterie du Poitou Ltd. » by the Porcheron family, near Poitiers in Western France. The company is specialized in selling and trading food packaging solutions for butchery shops.
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1962
Papeterie du Poitou launches its own production of food wrapping paper, still dedicated to butchery shops.
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1965
Papeterie du Poitou innovates and starts to print giftwrap paper. The designs are printed in Flexo.
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1975
The company grows more and more, industrializes its production process and invests in its first gravura printing machines.
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1981
Papeterie du Poitou is recognized in France and starts to sell abroad.
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1989
The company expands from 6,500sqm to 8,000sqm and employs 55 people.
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1996
Due to its exponential growth, the company needs to relocate into a 20000sqm plant, in Beaumont, north of Poitiers.
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2003
The family business changes owner and becomes “Beaumont Group – Papeterie du Poitou”
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Today
Beaumont Group – Papeterie du Poitou employs 70 people and keeps working hard to meet the expectations of its market and the satisfaction of all its customers.
Some figures:
70 employees / 10 paper bag making machines / 4,000 references on stock / 6 consumer roll machines / 5,600 customers / 12M€ turnover.