MWV Consumer & Office Product and Ballarpur Industries Limited Partner
MWV Consumer & Office Products and Ballarpur Industries Limited Partner to Bring Planning and Organizational Solutions to the Indian School and Office Products Industry FiveStar®, DayRunner® and Cambridge® Solutions Now Available in the Indian Consumer Marketplace
Tweet-- MWV Consumer & Office Products (NYSE: MWV), a leading manufacturer of planning and organizing tools, office products and school supplies, is partnering with Ballarpur Industries Limited (BILT) to distribute MWV Consumer & Office Products market-leading brands, including Five Star®, Day Runner® and Cambridge®, to retail and business-to-business customers throughout India.
Through the agreement, BILT will oversee the selling, marketing and distribution of MWV’s internationally recognized brands throughout India, and will work to broaden access for MWV products to the retail and non-retail distribution channels to meet the growing demands for Indian school and office products.
“The emphasis on education in India coupled with growing consumerism and local businesses has created strong demand for world-class tools and solutions that help students, consumers and professionals plan, organize and manage their lives,” said Joseph Forgiano, executive vice president, MWV Consumer & Office Products Emerging Markets Group. “MWV’s partnership with BILT gives us the opportunity to positively impact the local consumer to improve day-to-day living, learning and working conditions.”
“BILT is thrilled to be partnering with MWV to bring leading planning and organizing products to our customers,” said Yogesh Agarwal, COO, BILT. “As India continues to develop and consumer needs increase, access to solid productivity and organizing tools is imperative.”
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About MWV Consumer & Office Products
MWV Consumer & Office Products, a division of the MeadWestvaco Corporation, is the leading manufacturer and marketer of the most trusted brands in school supplies, office products, planning, and organizing tools, including Mead®, Five Star®, AT-A-GLANCE®, Cambridge®, Academie®, Day Runner® and Amcal® brands, among others. MWV Consumer & Office Products produces notebooks, folders, decorative calendars, stationery products, and time management and personal organizers for every stage of life. For more information, please visit www.mead.com.
About MWV
MeadWestvaco Corporation (NYSE: MWV), provides packaging solutions to many of the world’s most-admired brands in the healthcare, personal and beauty care, food, beverage, media and entertainment, and home and garden industries. The company's businesses include Consumer & Office Products, Specialty Chemicals, and the Community Development and Land Management Group, which sustainably manages the company’s land holdings to support its operations, and to provide for conservation, recreation and development opportunities. With 22,000 employees worldwide, MWV operates in 30 countries and serves customers in more than 100 nations. MWV manages all of its forestlands in accordance with internationally recognized forest certification standards, and has been named to the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index for the fifth consecutive year. For more information, please visit www.mwv.com.
About Ballarpur Industries Limited (BILT)
Ballarpur Industries Limited (BILT), part of the US$ 3 billion Avantha Group, is India’s largest manufacturer of writing and printing paper. Subsidiaries include Sabah Forest Industries, Malaysia’s largest pulp and paper company, and BILT Tree Tech Limited (BTTL), which runs BILT’s farm forestry programme in several states in India. Ranked among the global top 100, BILT has seven manufacturing units. In India BILT has a dominant share of the high-end coated paper segment, with over 50% of the coated wood-free paper market, 85% of the bond paper market and nearly 45% of the hi-bright Maplitho market. Some of BILT’s leading brands include Royal Executive Bond, BILT Matrix and BILT Ten on Ten. For more information, please visit www.bilt.com.