Everything about Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget totally explained
Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget (SCA) is a
Swedish pulp and paper manufacturer and
consumer goods company. It has approximately 50,000 employees and a turnover of approximately 100 billion
SEK (10 billion
euro). Its main products include personal care products (incontinence products, baby diapers and feminine hygiene products), tissue, packaging and publication papers. The company's ten largest markets are (in order):
Germany,
United Kingdom,
United States,
France,
Sweden,
Italy, the
Netherlands,
Spain,
Denmark,
Australia,
Mexico and
Belgium.
SCA was founded by
Ivar Kreuger in
1929 as a holding company for ten Swedish forest industry companies. Following Kruger's bankruptcy, in 1932, the company came to be controlled by the
Handelsbanken bank. Handelsbanken and associated funds and companies continue to control SCA to this day. In 1975 SCA acquired
Mölnlycke AB, a leading western European producer of disposable hygiene products, and in 1990 SCA acquired transport packaging company
Reedpack. In 1995 the Germany-based paper and packaging company
PWA was acquired. In 2001 a division(Wisconsin Tissue) of the US company
Georgia-Pacific Tissue was acquired. In 2004 SCA acquired the tissue and hygiene products businesses of CHH (Carter Holt Harvey) from IP (International Paper).
In 2007 SCA announced it was acquiring the European tissue operations of P&G (
Procter & Gamble) for EUR 512 million. This was agreed by the
European Commission in September 2007. SCA will own Tempo, Bess and Bluemia brands plus 5 plants in Europe and Hong Kong, and own European rights to
Bounty and
Charmin. SCA will need to divest Softis in Germany and Austria
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Leading SCA brands
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Zewa,
Edet,
Velvet,
Sorbent and Regio (consumer tissue)
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*Tork,
Main Street,
Familia,
Coronet,
Park Avenue Ultra (away-from-home tissue)
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Libresse,
Saba, Libra (feminine hygiene)
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*Libero,
Drypers,
Drypantz, Treasures (Baby diapers)
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TENA and Serenity (incontinence products)
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