Corpack plans to build onto its point of sale empire

Corpack Industries, Knutsford, is looking to become a more powerful player in the point of sale business. It has formed a new division which is it planning to bolster through new acquisitions. Corpack acquired the corrugated packaging division of MY Holdings (Printing World, March 8) which consisted of four companies. One of these, Doncaster Screenprint, will now sit alongside another Corpack company, Clark Stephen Packaging, Cumbernauld, Strathclyde, in a division called Corpack Colour Display.

The linkage effectively gives the sales staff a nationwide umbrella with which to market products. Corpack also seeks to maximise the strengths of the two companies. Clark Stephens, an 80-years-old firm, is seen by Corpack's co-founder Tony Evans as possessing expertise in design, with a large studio and state of the art Cad systems.

Doncaster Screenprint is seen as more of a printing company, especially flat screenprinting. Doncaster Systems also has a large market base in the north and east Midlands, which is an area Clark Stephen is yet to exploit. In product terms, Corpack Colour Display is already offering its customers a new 3D instant display. Called Autoshelf, the corrugated display is patented by ArrowArt of the US, from which Corpack bought the UK rights.

Although the two companies which make up Corpack Colour Display will be working together, they will continue to be run as individual businesses under the management of Rod Ainslie at Clark Stephen and Bob Brindle at Doncaster Screenprint.

Further investment in the division is planned. Clark Stephen is expecting to see a new screenprinting line installed at some point in the next year, and Mr Evans says Corpack is on the look out for other P-o-S companies throughout the UK which would fit neatly into the division.

DETAILS IN BRIEF Corpack forms PoS division New 3-D product range Investment in equipment Looking at acquisition targets