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Bunzl
British multinational distribution and outsourcing company / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Bunzl Public Limited Company is a British multinational distribution and outsourcing company headquartered in London, England.
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Formerly | Bunzl Pulp & Paper Limited (1940–1982)[1] |
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Company type | Public limited company |
LSE: BNZL FTSE 100 Component | |
Industry | Distribution and outsourcing |
Founded | 1854; 170 years ago (1854) (Pozsony, Hungary) |
Headquarters | London, England, UK |
Key people | Peter Ventress (Chairman)[2] Frank van Zanten (CEO)[3] |
Products | Distribution of catering equipment, cleaning products, paper and plastic packaging, food processing equipment, medical gloves and disposable hygiene products, personal protective equipment, vending machine supplies |
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Number of employees | 22,500 (2024)[5] |
Website | www |
The activities of the company have changed a number of times during its existence, frequently incorporating the disparate business interests of the founding Bunzl family, which trace their history back to a haberdashery opened in Pozsony in 1854. The current company was established in London in 1940 as a manufacturer of cigarette filters, crêpe and tissue paper, and the production of fibres, pulp, paper, building materials and plastics were all brought into the firm – and subsequently sold – over the following decades. Bunzl restructured itself as a company purely focused on distribution through a divestment process which began in the early 1990s and ended with the 2005 spin out of Filtrona.
Bunzl has been listed on the London Stock Exchange since 1957 and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.