A 35.3% Gross Margin Shrinks to a 5% Adjusted Operating Margin
Does a packaging company become more profitable as it moves closer to the customer’s factory, or do warehouses and labour consume the gains?
Millcraft has announced the acquisition of protective packaging company P3. P3 handles more than boxes: it assembles 3,000 to 5,000 packaging units a week, manages customer inventory, supplies products when needed and offers same-day delivery. At a comparable packaging distribution business, even a 35.3% gross margin narrowed to a 5.0% adjusted operating margin.
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A packaging company that assembles up to 5,000 units a week has become an acquisition target. U.S.-based Protective Packaging Products, known as P3, processes 3,000 to 5,000 units a week. This is the throughput of an assembly process that leaves the packaging ready for the customer to use.…
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