EBB Acquires Warren Board

In their last filed accounts (October 2019), Warren Board had sales of £28 million and specialise in the supply of Board to the Carton Print Sector.

The acquisition of Warren Board will make EBB the largest board merchant supplier in the UK & Irish market. This latest move by EBB further strengthens the commitment to this sector, following the acquisition of UniBoard (Dublin) in July 2019.
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Warren Board will continue to operate from both their Leicester based warehouse (which stores over 10,000 pallets of product), and their West Bromwich converting facility (which has the capacity to convert over 5,000 tonne of product a year). During 2021, EBB plan to integrate the Warren Board sales within the EBB Service network, offering enhanced delivery of the widest product portfolio throughout the UK and Ireland.
The EBB Group, across all divisions in The UK and Ireland, will now hold over 50,000 pallets of paper and board, available for next day delivery.

Quote: Matt Elliott, MD Elliott Baxter & Co Ltd
“Barry and his team have built a fantastic business, with great staff, loyal customers and excellent mill partners. Warren Board has been a leader in the supply of Carton Board grades for many years in the UK, as a competitor we have admired their professionalism, their stock range and the way they deal with the Carton Printers. Our new combined strength with Warren Board will see improved choice and better service to all of our UK and Ireland based customers.
The Elliott Baxter Group is now, not just the largest Independently owned Paper Merchant in UK & Ireland, but also the largest Carton Board Merchant in UK & Ireland.”

Quote: Barry Pincott, founder of Warren Board
“After 44 years building Warren into the company that it is today, the time is right for Anne Ferguson and I to fully retire.
With the help of our excellent Board of Directors, without whose help we could not have achieved the success we have today, it was felt we needed a partner who could invest and help us grow to reach our full potential.
We have known the Elliott family for many years and knew they were the right people to trust with our company. The synergy is perfect and could not be more hand in glove.
For many years we have been the largest independent Carton Board distributor in the UK, and now within EBB we can only see more success for the group as a whole.“

Quote: Chris Sandwell, Sales & Marketing Director - Elliott Baxter & Co Ltd
“We are delighted with the acquisition, the increased product range, additional storage capacity and strength of the Warren Board brand fit perfectly with the EBB Group.”