CCL Industries signed a binding option agreement to acquire France-based shrink-sleeve label producer Sleever, which has 11 plants and about $213 million in 2025 sales. The deal, valued at about $151 million, is expected to close by mid-2026.

Italian SACMI, through SACMI Packaging & Chocolate, acquired a 65% majority stake in France's Groupe Emballage Technologies, which owns Etpack, Sermatec and Pactisoud. The deal was made official on 19 December 2025.

Hinojosa Packaging Group finalised the acquisition of ASV Packaging, a French folding carton manufacturer, adding about 200 employees in France. Hinojosa had held a 49% stake since July 2023.

Groupe Guillin, through its subsidiary WEFOLD DIFFUSION, entered exclusive negotiations to acquire the businesses of Cartonnerie Moderne, Défi Imprimerie and Alpes Emballages, which make food cardboard packaging with about EUR 13 million combined 2023 revenue and around 30 staff at three French sites.

PET preform maker SGT Group of Rezé, France, announced its acquisition of Axium Packaging, a Saint-Étienne injection and blow molding firm with 385 employees and production in France, the Czech Republic, Italy and Germany.

Japan Pulp and Paper submitted a binding proposal on September 24, 2024 to buy 100% of Inapa France from its insolvency administrator for EUR 25 million, based on an enterprise value of EUR 73.1 million. The offer competes with a EUR 20 million bid from Next Pack for the packaging business.

PSB Industries will acquire 100 percent of ALQP's share capital at €32 per share to merge Quadpack with its Texen business into one group. The combined group, with sales of €350 million, will have industrial presence in six countries.

Trioworld Group signed an agreement on June 25, 2024 to acquire Sopal SAS, owner of French food packaging companies Palamy and Beaudet et René Jean Emballage (BRJ), through a purchase of all shares. The deal is subject to closing conditions and French regulatory approvals.

Greif entered exclusive negotiations to acquire IPACKCHEM Group SAS, a maker of jerrycans and small plastic containers, from an affiliate of SK Capital Partners in a cash deal valued at $538 million. Closing is expected by the end of Greif's second quarter of fiscal 2024, subject to French consultation and regulatory clearances.

Hinojosa Packaging Group closed a 49% shareholding agreement in ASV Packaging, a French maker of sustainable food and beverage packaging. The deal expands Hinojosa's presence in the French and Spanish markets.

Spanish carton maker Hinojosa Packaging entered exclusive negotiations to acquire a 49% stake in French corrugated packaging maker ASV Packaging, which has 210 employees and 64 million euros in revenue. The deal would also give the two groups joint control of Halopack tray production in Iberia and France.

Berlin Packaging is acquiring Verrerie du Comtat, a glass packaging supplier in Sorgues, France, serving wine and olive oil producers. It is the second Berlin Packaging acquisition in EMEA in 2022, and all employees and locations will be retained.

Selig Group, owned by CC Industries, has acquired Manufacture Générale de Joints (MGJ), a foam-based liner supplier headquartered near Lyon, France; MGJ will keep operating from its France facility.

Pacur, a Gryphon Investors portfolio company, signed a definitive agreement to acquire CAROLEX SAS, a French PETG sheet extruder, from epsotech Holding GmbH. The deal is expected to close by year end 2021 and terms were not disclosed.

Berlin Packaging has signed a binding commitment with O-I France SAS to acquire the Le Parfait glass jar and lid business and brands, with closing expected around year end 2021. Le Parfait glass jars are made at plants in Puy-Guillaume, France and Sevilla, Spain.

Private equity firms Azulis Capital and Arkea Capital entered the capital of Nantes-based packaging distributor Fidel Fillaud, which reported €76 million in 2020 sales, while founding family keeps control.

Investment fund LBO France acquired a majority stake in Baobag, a French maker and distributor of large-capacity flexible packaging, alongside AfricInvest, BNP Paribas Développement and management. The deal was announced in Paris on 24 September 2021 and no value was disclosed.

Guillin, a European food packaging group, has completed the acquisition of Gault et Frémont, a maker of paper bags, cardboard boxes and baking paper with four sites in France and Belgium, from UI Investissement. Gault et Frémont reported 2020 sales of 63 million euros.

Mutares completed the acquisition of RDM La Rochette S.A.S. from the Reno De Medici Group. The Valgelon-La Rochette, France plant makes virgin-fibre folding boxboard for pharma and food packaging, with revenues near EUR 120 million and about 300 employees.

Klingele Paper & Packaging Group has acquired the Société Guadeloupéenne de Carton Ondulé corrugated board plant in Baillif, Guadeloupe, from International Paper, to operate as Klingele Cartonnerie de Guadeloupe.

SK Capital Partners, LP completed its previously announced acquisition of IPACKCHEM Group SAS, a Paris-headquartered supplier of barrier packaging for crop protection and specialty chemicals. The deal value was not disclosed.

UI Investissement has entered exclusive negotiations to sell packaging maker Gault & Fremont, based in Saint-Pierre-des-Corps, France, to the listed packaging group Guillin.

Groupe Guillin has entered exclusive negotiations with UI Investissement to acquire Groupe Gault & Fremont, a French and Belgian maker of paper bags, cardboard boxes and baking paper with 270 employees across four sites. The announcement is dated March 2, 2021.

Berlin Packaging announced the acquisition of French glass and metal packaging companies Sodis-Uhart and Audoubert, adding more than 9,000 square meters of warehouse space in southern France. It is Berlin Packaging's eleventh European acquisition since 2016.

The Pusterla 1880 group finalized the acquisition of the Adine Group, which includes box maker Adine, printer Chiffoleau and plastic thermoformer Thermoform, in France. The deal aims to strengthen its luxury packaging offer.

Sonoco acquired Can Packaging, which makes paper cans and packaging machines at two French facilities in Habsheim, for a transaction valued at EUR 41.7 million. The deal was announced on August 4, 2020.

Kokusai Pulp & Paper completed on 21 July 2020 the purchase of Sequana's and Bpifrance Participations' Antalis shares, giving it 83.7% and majority control, and plans a simplified cash tender offer at EUR 0.73 per share.

Belgian group VPK Packaging acquired part of the capital of family-owned French corrugated packaging firm Viallon Emballage, expanding into the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. The deal value was not disclosed.

Belgian packaging group VPK Group has agreed to merge with French corrugated packaging maker Viallon Emballage, expanding into the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.

Crédit Mutuel Equity became a minority reference shareholder with 25% of Paris-founded packaging maker Verpack in a leveraged buyout advised by Pax Corporate Finance, with Stéphane Viers becoming Chairman.

French private equity firm Sparring Capital acquired a majority stake in Pure Trade, a French maker of luxury packaging and promotional products for cosmetics and fragrance. Initiative et Finance and Isatis Capital exited.

Kokusai Pulp & Paper (KPP) signed binding agreements with Sequana and Bpifrance to acquire their 83.7% stake in paper and packaging distributor Antalis, representing about 75.2% of its share capital. The deal is subject to conditions precedent.

PSB Industries is in negotiations with manufacturer Groupe Pochet to acquire its plastic packaging business Qualipac, a beauty packaging company.

French manufacturer Neyret is taking over 100% of SERAM and its subsidiaries through its holding company NTH, creating a world leader in textile and multi-material decoration and identification for luxury products.

Sidel announced on July 18, 2019 that it acquired Cognac Moules Emballages Plastiques (COMEP), a French producer of PET bottle moulds based in Salles-d'Angles with around 60 employees and over 4,000 moulds produced per year. COMEP will operate as a separate sales channel for moulds and tooling.

France's Autorité de la concurrence cleared International Paper to acquire DS Smith Packaging Normandie's two plants in Torigni-sur-Vire and Cabourg, Normandy, as a remedy for DS Smith's acquisition of Europac.

French corrugated packaging manufacturer Cartonneries de Gondardennes (CGW) signed an agreement to take over competitor Lacaux Frères, an integrated producer of corrugated board and packaging. The transaction is expected to complete in April 2019.

Berlin Packaging announced the acquisition of Verrerie Calvet, a glass and container packaging supplier in Aimargues, France. Verrerie Calvet will be integrated into Bruni Glass. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Cartonneries de Gondardennes Wardrecques Group (CGW) signed an agreement with the shareholders of Groupe Lacaux to acquire it, with completion expected in April 2019. The combined group will have turnover of about €200 million and around 660 employees.

Cosmetic packaging group Texen took over the flexible packaging business of plastic packaging maker PRP Creation of Oyonnax, France, in February 2022.

Gault & Frémont, backed by UI Gestion, has acquired paper bag makers Emballages du Dauphiné and Daujas, which serve industrial bakeries and retail. The deal ensures the transfer of the founder's stake to managing director Carmen Pirès.

French packaging group BBA Emballages announced the acquisition of Attis, a Paris-region wholesale distributor of food packaging for restaurants. The deal adds over 1,300 product references and about EUR 10 million in revenue.

Smurfit Kappa acquired Papcart, a French offset printing and consumer cardboard packaging company with two sites in Gétigné and Jarnac, to expand its luxury, wine and spirits, FMCG and bag-in-box portfolio. The deal was reported on 21 February 2019.

Cartonneries de Gondardennes Wardrecques Group (CGW) signed an agreement in February 2019 to acquire all shares of the Lacaux Group, with the final acquisition expected in April 2019. The new group will have turnover of about €200 million and a workforce of about 660.

Austrian flexible packaging group Schur Flexibles reached a general acquisition agreement with France's UNI Packaging, which has seven production sites in France, the UK and Austria.

Portugal's Amorim acquired a 60% stake in Bourrassé, a cork stopper producer based in Tosse, Landes, for EUR 29 million. Amorim holds an option on the remaining capital until 2022.

Saica acquired French group Emin Leydier, a paper and corrugated packaging maker with eight French plants and 1,029 employees, adding 800,000 tonnes of recycled paper capacity. The deal was announced on 28 February 2018 and no price was disclosed.

Virojanglor, a French metal packaging maker, agreed to acquire Interesting Sourcing, a France-based manufacturer of multi-material packaging. Virojanglor expected consolidated revenue of about 25 million euros in 2018.

GPack Group signed an agreement with Oaktree Capital Management to acquire Alliora Coffrets in Fougères, France, with Alliora's capital increased by 7 million euros to expand its gift-box business.

Citic Capital agreed to buy French packaging company Axilone from Oaktree Capital Management, announced on November 6, 2017. Banks have lined up about €420m of leveraged loans to finance the buyout, with Axilone's EBITDA around €55m.