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Nampak is Africa’s largest packaging manufacturer and offers the most comprehensive product range, manufacturing packaging in metal, glass, paper and plastic. The company is comprised of numerous divisions that specialise in their own unique packaging materials products and machinery. Individually, the group’s divisions are industry-leading suppliers to the key targeted markets they serve. Combining forces collectively within Nampak’s operating units enhances the company’s strength in products while reinforcing Nampak as a global supplier of packaging solutions. This is a benefit particularly designed to assist in locating and providing the best products for customers across paper, plastic metal and glass substrates.

Nampak’s vast portfolio of packaging solutions finds application primarily in the food and beverage market sectors, as well as household and industrial products, cosmetics and toiletries, pharmaceutical and medical markets and the cigarette and tobacco industries.

With a geographic footprint that stretches upwards from South Africa, through the rest of Africa and into Europe, Nampak is strategically located to meet nearly every customer need either locally or through export. Nampak provides a wide variety of value-added services, including the supply of specialised equipment, packaging design, technical support and one of the leading research and development facilities worldwide.
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Location
South Africa, Gauteng, Sandton
Employees
1001-5000
Phone
+27 11 719 6300
Founded date
1968

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May 9, 2025Notorious ransomware group gets a taste of its own medicineThe ransom-seeking cybercriminals behind the extortion group Lockbit appear to have suffered a breach of their own, according to a rogue post to one of the group’s websites and security analysts who follow the gang. On Wednesday, one of Loc...
Feb 21, 2025New CFO at ReunertMark Kathan, newly appointed group chief financial officer at Reunert Reunert has named a new group chief financial officer: Mark Kathan will take on the role from 1 March following the imminent retirement of long-serving CFO Nick Thomson. ...
Mar 26, 2024Nampak hit by cyberattackJSE-listed packaging firm Nampak told its shareholders on Tuesday that it has suffered a cyberattack in which an unknown third party has gained access to its IT systems. In a notice published on the JSE’s stock exchange news service, Nampak...
Dec 16, 2019Most – but not all – South African companies are struggling in Zimbabwe. Here are the winners and losers.News analysis A moneychanger at the Chirundu border post between Zambia and Zimbabwe displays some of the older high denomination banknotes from Zimbabwe in 2008. (Photo by Gideon Mendel/Corbis via Getty Images) Zimbabwe is facing a heap of...
Apr 20, 2017240 cartons of IMFL, valued at Rs 60 lakh, seized in dry BiharMUZAFFARPUR: Excise sleuths seized 240 cartons of India made foreign liquor (IMFL) from a truck near Basra Shukla village in Jaitpur police outpost area of Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district late on Wednesday night. Acting on a tip off, excise of...
Feb 11, 2013South Africa’s Nampak Invests $179m In Bottle, Can ProductionNampak Group would invest 1.6 billion rand ($179 million) in two businesses that produce bottles and cans, strengthening its position in the beverage-can and glass packaging sectors, Africa’s biggest packaging group said at the weekend. Bus...
Mar 1, 2011Platinum Equity Acquires Nampak Cartons and Healthcare Packaging Business in EuropeLos Angeles, CA —Platinum Equity announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Nampak Cartons and Nampak Healthcare from South Africa-based Nampak Limited [JSE:NPK]. Nampak Cartons produces cartons for the food and beverage secto...

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FAQ about Nampak

When was Nampak founded?

Nampak was founded in 1968.

What has the press written about Nampak?

Parsers VC has collected 8 articles mentioning Nampak, among them “Notorious ransomware group gets a taste of its own medicine” (May 9, 2025) and “New CFO at Reunert” (Feb 21, 2025).

Is Nampak still active?

Yes, Nampak is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Nov 4, 2026.