UK converter Glossop Cartons has named Simon Boden as business improvement manager.
In this new role, Mr Boden will target improved operational efficiency at the growing business, increasing production capacity and reducing customer lead times, while maintaining output of the highest quality. As Glossop Cartons’ first business improvement manager, he is responsible for ensuring that processes are efficiency aligned with the company’s strategic objectives.
Mr Boden brings with him 35 years of packaging industry experience, most recently as production director at Mayr Melnhof Packaging Iberica.
Jacky Sidebottom-Every, joint managing director at Glossop Cartons, said, ‘As the business grows, both organically and via new business, it is vital that our production operation runs as efficiently as possible in order to continue to give our customers the highest quality products within increasingly competitive lead times.’
Glossop Cartons’ growth was most recently marked by the announcement of a property expansion of over 50%, as it acquired a new 2300sqm industrial building, in order to further improve operational efficiency and facilitate investment in new manufacturing equipment.
His appointment is part of Glossop Cartons’ plan to invest in its management team in order to enable further growth via the acquisition of additional industry expertise, and to allow joint managing directors, Ms Sidebottom-Every and Brian Sidebottom, to focus on corporate strategy. His appointment follows that of operations director Dave Bartlett, who was recruited last year.
