Press release - NNZ 100 years

NNZ, the 100-year-old Groningen family business and multinational, wants to revolutionise packaging

A well-kept secret: NNZ operates 24 subsidiaries in 18 countries, employing 250 people in the global packaging market for the agricultural, industrial and retail sectors. The company celebrates its centenary on 22 October 2022. What makes the story of this northern Netherlands company so special?

* A unique insight into the sustainable future of packaging
As an independent consultant and socially responsible company, NNZ, still wholly owned by the Boot family, has a unique vision of how the packaging market – a highly topical concern – can be completely reshaped. An example of this is the packaging it supplies to the Danish company Nordic Harvest, a pioneer in vertical farming. The future of packaging is nowhere more visible than in NNZ’s innovation department. This is where the future becomes an exciting, tangible present.

* Fourth generation of the Boot family gradually taking over the helm
NNZ started 100 years ago in the Libau warehouse in Groningen. Roos van Vugt was the first member of the fourth generation to join the company, six years ago. She was recently voted sales manager of the year 2022 by the Netherlands’ Sales Management Association. Roos’s motto: “Success is not in reaching the destination, but in making the journey.”. The second member of the fourth generation to continue the family business is Patrick Boot, who will become CFO of NNZ USA in October.

* Singularly socially responsible company committed to employee wellbeing
As a socially driven company, NNZ is a pioneer in this field with its own family charter, which includes many safeguards for its employees and for the company’s continuity. ‘We are a company with a family’ is how the current third generation expresses it. Employees have countless stories that testify to this – and that they see NNZ as one big family is demonstrated by the large number of employees with long service records.

* Investing in the future to continue to live up to ethical standards
Ethics is is a word that means a lot to me, says CEO Len Boot. NNZ is committed to sustainability, good working conditions and the absence of child labour. The organisation also refuses to speculate on futures markets, for either raw materials or currencies. And it embraces in both letter and spirit the objective of the EU circular economy action plan to make all packaging recyclable, compostable or reusable in an economically viable manner by 2030. NNZ devotes particular attention to Bangladesh, a key jute-producing country. In late 2021, NNZ-funded construction began on a school in one of Bangladesh’s poorest areas. The school will be opened by NNZ in October 2022.

For further information, please contact:

CEO Len Boot

NNZ Group

Aarhusweg 1
9723 JJ Groningen
The Netherlands

Telefoon: +31 (0)50 5207830
Email: info@nnz.com
www.nnz.com