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Your Packaging Innovator

Our corporate values

IMPRINT Project management: Wipf Holding AG, Brugg Concept/Editing/Realisation: Wipf Holding AG, Brugg April 2017

Our corporate culture rests on six pillars

Innovation, quality, reliability, customer orientation, team spirit, and social stewardship are the key pillars on which the 100-year-old family-owned company is built.

The Wipf Group’s cultural values has been developed and consolidated over generations. The human and entrepreneurial qualities it endorses are becoming more and more crucial for our successful development: • The personal and open attitude we adopt toward each other and our customers; • the latitude to design and develop innovations as well as new procedures and processes that create productivity advantages and strengthen our market position; • the ability of our teams and lean operating units to make quick decisions, seize opportunities, and introduce necessary changes and improvements without delay.

While our corporate management is largely decentralized, our common standards and shared values create a strong sense of togetherness; they convey confidence and trust both within the company and toward our customers. As shown in this brochure, our values can be summarized by six principles that inspire our daily work and our customer relationships.

Find out more in this brochure or visit our website at www.wipfgroup.com.

Christian H. Wipf Chairman of the Board of Directors

We are a privately-owned Swiss enterprise

The Wipf Group is a Swiss SME with a 100-year heritage.

For generations, our corporate culture has focused on traditional Swiss values such as dependability, quality, honesty, and trustworthiness. All affiliates and divisions are managed in the same spirit as self-reliant profit centres.

“We are aware that neither the best organization nor capital nor the size of the company can ensure the sustainable and healthy development of our business, unless both entrepreneur and employees are imbued with the right spirit.

But spirit refuses constraints, and valuable contributions can only come from free will.�

Heinrich Wipf sen. 1942, on the occasion of the company’s 60-year anniversary

Our fundamental values are our strengths

A passion for quality, reliability, and a quest for excellence are fundamental values that are reflected by our products and services as weil as by our attitude in day-to-day operations. Supported by the know-how and commitment of our em­ ployees, these values are the basis for the continuing success of our company through growth and profitability.

“We are committed to manufacturing products that meet strict requirements.

Our basis is always a keen perception of quality combined with the ability to deliver.”

Heinrich R. Wipf in the Group brochure “Specialists With Visions”

Innovation is our hallmark

Responsive and flexible work in project groups that co-operate with customers in finding solutions is what distinguishes us from our competitors.

We not only design new packaging systems but also develop innovative concepts in marketing and logistics. By continuously introducing new products, we have gained a reputation as a Packaging Innovator in our industry.

“In our markets, we differentiate ourselves with flexibility and speed in the development of innovative concepts.�

Christian H. Wipf

The success of our customers makes us successful

Our quality and our ability to develop innovative and sound long-term solutions help our customers achieve success. By focusing on specific market segments and customer requirements, we have become market leaders in these segments.

“Without our customers, we would be nothing, with our customers, we can be the best.�

Christian H. Wipf

Our employees are co-entrepreneurs

Know-how and a team spirit are our assets, and our employees are our most important resource. A high level of competence is expected and encouraged.

We manage by agreed objectives and delegate the greatest possible degree of decision-making authority and responsibility to our employees in their activities on behalf of our customers and our company.

“The quality of a company is a precise reflection of the quality of its employees and executives.�

Heinrich Wipf sen. in a ceremonial address at Seetal Papier AG

Social stewardship governs what we do

We see ourselves as responsible citizens and members of our society. In addition to our in-house commitment to social benefits, continuing education, and employee safety and health, we maintain good contacts with the communities and authorities of our region and actively endorse environmental protection.

“As a company, we share the responsibility for the well-being of our society.�

Christian H. Wipf

Wipf Group - 100 years tradition and innovation

In 2014, the privately owned Wipf Group celebrated its 100th birthday. The culture has repeatedly made it possible to transform itself and adjust to new challenges and developments.

On 1 January 1914, Heinrich Wipf (1st generation) incorporated Wipf & Feldmann in the centre of Zürich. He acquired all machines and activities from his apprenticeship supervisor Carl Lüdin, whose company of the same name produced paper bags in a factory building on the Limmat River. After having completed his training, Heinrich Wipf worked for Carl Lüdin as an accountant and was later promoted to authorized signatory. Because Lüdin had no successor, he suggested that Wipf take over the company. It was the beginning of a very successful corporate history.

Heinrich Wipf Active 1914 - 1944

Heinrich R. Wipf Active 1958 - 1999

Heinrich Wipf sen.

Active 1926 - 1974

Christian H. Wipf Active 1991 - today

Due to a lack of space on the original premises, Heinrich Wipf and his business partner Hans Feld-

mann moved the company to a new location somewhat outside the city centre. Even at that time, the emphasis was on investing. In 1926, for example, Wipf & Co. – with Heinrich Wipf (2nd generation) in charge – commissioned a modern 3-colour rotary press for paper bags. In the years that followed, the company boomed and grew continuously. In 1970, Heinrich R. Wipf (3rd generation) moved the business to a new production site in Volketswil – yet another important milestone in the company‘s history.

Today, the Wipf Group ranks among the most eminent and innovative packaging specialists in Europe.

Christian H. Wipf, Chairman and CEO of the Wipf Group, represents the 4th generation of the owning family. The traditional Swiss values like quality, dependability, and honesty as well as the firmly established brands WICOVALVE®, WICOSEAL®, POLIALUVEL®, POLIVEL®, RC-Film®, ELCO®, Swiss Direct Marketing® and Flyerline® remain constants while the products, services, and technologies will evolve in an environment characterized by rapidly changing market and customer expectations.

The company is committed to the site advantages of Switzerland as well as to progressive and socially responsible working conditions. 6 operating companies and over 600 employees focus on delivering premium-quality products and services. Doing business sustainably and caring for the environment – this is the philosophy endorsed by the Wipf Group with a full commitment and latest technologies. For example, group-wide CO2 emissions were reduced by over 50% in the past years.

Wipf Group - History at a glance

Your Packaging Innovator

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