MY Healthcare name disappears as Nampak rejigs operations

The rebrand coincides with a rejig of the pharmaceutical and healthcare packaging business’s management team that is aimed at improving efficiencies across its 11 sites in Europe.

Three regional directors – Gerard Harford for the UK, Enrico Folchini for Italy and Frank Fillips for northern Europe – will oversee the rebrand alongside divisional finance director Olivier Antille and divisional purchasing and projects director Jon Clark.

Nampak Healthcare, which is part of the South African Nampak group, employs 900 people across Europe and produces cartons, patient information leaflets, labels and foils for blister packs.

Nampak Europe managing director Tom Reid said that the new name would build on the group’s global brand and that the group would continue to invest heavily in its manufacturing sites.

He added: Our new management team reflects the pan-European nature of our business today and will ensure that we maximise synergies between our sites so that we remain at the forefront of our field.

The rebrand comes at the end of a busy year for MY Healthcare. In July 2008, the company’s factory at Thorpe, Surrey was destroyed by a fire and it was subsequently decided that the plant would not be rebuilt.

Later in 2008, the group bought Bradford-based pharmaceutical packaging firm Storey Evans   and earlier this year the company invested £3m in a new Drent Goebel press for its leaflet printing operation in Newmarket.

MY Healthcare is not the first major name in carton printing to disappear from the market in recent times. Chesapeake dropped the 158-year-old Field name at the start of 2008 as it, too, aimed to align all its businesses under the parent company’s brand.

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