MALMO, Sweden, November 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ —

The Rosti Group has today completed the purchase of a majority shareholding in Tebplast (Tebplast Plastik San.Tic.A.S.) from the Teber family. Tebplast, based in Istanbul, is a leading Turkish injection molders specializing in the IML (In Mold Label) top filled rigid packaging market for the food and beverage industry. The Teber family remains as shareholders and Erdem and Engin Teber stay in their present positions as Managing Director and Operations Director respectively.

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Tebplast, formed in the 1980’s, today operates 40 IML production lines with 110 employees. Tebplast achieved an excellent reputation as highly responsive quality supplier of IML products to the dairy, fresh food and chilled and frozen food markets with 50% growth in sales in the last year alone. Tebplast is one of a handful of companies in Turkey with the BRC food manufacturing accreditation and offers product design, tooling management, manufacturing and logistics services to market leaders in both Turkey and overseas.

Rosti Tebplast will be incorporated into the Packaging division of the Rosti Group, headed by Mr Magnus Emeus, who commented “We are very happy with this acquisition and the synergy opportunities created between our businesses. Combining the Tebplast capabilities with the competence and sales network of the Rosti Group will create great growth opportunities both inside and outside Turkey. I congratulate Erdem and Engin Teber on their excellent strategic and operational development of the company and look forward to our future cooperation. We are delighted to welcome Erdem and Engin to the Rosti Management family. “

Mr Erdem Teber added “This is a very important milestone in the history of Tebplast and we are delighted to have Rosti as a majority shareholder. We see clear synergies going forward which allow the company to accelerate its growth even further”
Rosti Group already has a significant proportion of its sales in the packaging market supplying the food and beverage industry with caps and closures. The new Rosti subsidiary, Rosti Tebplast, will give Rosti access to the top filled plastic packaging markets with a leading reputation in IML, with cost effective solutions not only to the Turkish market but also with regular deliveries to Western Europe
Borje Vernet CEO of the Rosti Group added “We are making good progress in implementing our long term strategy, by growing the business both organically and by acquisitions, towards our 2016 target of EUR600 million sales. We have made 2 good acquisitions in the last year and we are confident that we will be adding further acquisitions in the medium term. We have the knowhow, the finances and the vision to make this happen.”

Key facts relating to the combined Rosti Group:
Total Employees　 2600
Number of molding machines 550
Operations in 8 countries
11 manufacturing facilities
Turnover 350m Euros

Editors’ notes:
Rosti is a global plastics injection molding company and subcontract manufacturer to the Automotive, Packaging, Consumer and Professional Appliances, Business Machine, and Life Sciences markets. Rosti has facilities in the UK, Poland, Sweden, Germany, Turkey, China, India, and Malaysia with accreditation in ISO9000/1/2, ISO 13485, TS16949, FDA/IMS, BRC/IoP, ISO 14001, OSHAS 18001 (H, S+E) and many other world manufacturing standards, with a combined turnover of 350 MEUR and 2600 employees. Rosti is owned by the Swedish investment group Nordstjernan. For further information, please visit http://www.rosti.com and http://www.nordstjernan.se.

For further information please contact
Magnus Emeus , Head of Rosti Packaging, email mem@rosti.com
Tez Kurwie, Group Sales and Business Development Director, email tk@rosti.com
Börje Vernet, CEO Rosti Group, email bvt@rosti.com
Tel.: 0046-40204701

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