MORE THAN 40 YEARS HISTORY
2018 AUSTRIA Europapier takes a participation in the packaging specialist Carl Bernh. Hoffmann GmbH in Jeging, Austria moderne-verpackung.at |
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2015 AUSTRIA
Europapier acquires the VisCom business unit of PaperNet europapier-werbetechnik.at |
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2013 EUROPAPIER
reactivates its sales activities in Ukraine and sets up Europapier Eastern Europe, a joint-venture. |
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2012 EUROPAPIER GROUP
acquires 100 % of the local paper merchant businesses in Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia from PaperlinX. |
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2010 EUROPAPIER BECOMES PART OF HEINZEL GROUP
The group with headquarters in Vienna comprises the international pulp and paper trading company Wilfried Heinzel AG, pulp and paper producers Zellstoff Pöls AG, Laakirchen Papier AG and AS Estonian Cell as well as waste paper treatment and distribution company Bunzl & Biach. |
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2007 EUROPAPIER strengthens its market position in Bosnia & Herzegovina by acquiring and merging with Hercegtisak, a local paper merchant with an office and school supply business. |
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2004 RUSSIA Europapier extends its market by 140 million people with the acquisition of the sales division of Mondi Syktyvkar, Russia. Europapier’s territory now reaches from Frastanz on the western border of Austria to Irkutsk in Eastern Siberia. |
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2003 EUROPAPIER acquires the Polish merchanting business of International Paper, and Europapier Impap is born. |
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2002 BULGARIA Europapier completes its expansion into the Balkan countries with the establishment of Europapier Bulgaria. |
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2001 BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA In the year of its thirtieth anniversary, Europapier sets up operations in Bosnia & Herzegovina, another country of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia: |
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1998 UKRAINE Europapier establishes a sales office in Ukraine which is closed few years later due to business environment conditions. |
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1997 ROMANIA Europapier starts a greenfield operation in Romania, a market of over 20 million people. |
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1996 CROATIA One year later Croatia with its more than 1.000 islands and 5.835 kilometer coastline becomes part of Europapier Group. |
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1995 SERBIA & MONTENEGRO
The expansion into the Balkans continues: Europapier sets up operations in Serbia & Montenegro. |
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1994 POLAND With the acquisition of Sonevix in Poland Europapier enters a country of nearly 40 million people, which means more than doubling its market. Europapier expands Sonevix’s core business, i.e. visual communication, by establishing printing and writing as well as office paper units. |
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1993 SLOVENIA & CZECH REPUBLIC The expansion continues southward, when Europapier enters its smallest market Slovenia with just over two million inhabitants. The foundation of Europapier Bohemia in Czech Republic marks the next step in Europapier’s northeastward expansion. |
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1991 SLOVAKIA
The same year Europapier enters the Slovak market by setting up operations in the capital Bratislava, situated 60 kilometers from the Austrian boarder. |
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1991 HUNGARY Just two years after the fall of the Iron Curtain, Europapier is the first western paper merchant to enter the Eastern European market by establishing a company in its neighboring country Hungary. |
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1971 ESTABLISHMENT OF EUROPAPIER IN AUSTRIA Europapier Austria with headquarters in Vienna is established by the four paper mills Neusiedler (current Mondi), Nettingsdorfer, Salzer and Steyrermühl. |