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We believe that the community in which we operate
should benefit not only from our economic success,
but from the time and energy which we invest.
Packages, as a responsible corporate citizen,
has always undertaken to make a positive contribution
to the community it works in through employee
volunteer efforts and corporate initiatives.
Our community efforts reflect our corporate culture
by building strength and value through mutual
assistance and goodwill.
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Rural Sector Improvement |
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Pakistan is rated amongst the world's top
five milk producers, even though it has no organized
milk sector. Transport to the cities had traditionally
been the domain of the contractors, who were unable
to maintain the quality of the milk during transit.
Consequently, when Packages' milk packaging plant
needed a reliable daily source of milk, they were
forced to buy directly from the dairy farmers
when they were unable to reach an agreement with
the contractors. Today, the estimated daily intake
of the aseptic dairy plants in the country exceeds
3 million liters and has become a constant source
of substantial income to a large sector of the
rural population. This, in itself, has been a
major contribution from Packages towards the uplift
of the rural sector.
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Propagating
Horticulture |
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Today, Packages is as well known for its roses
as for its industrial activities. The number of varieties
of roses in our gardens exceeds 300 and
includes plants, bushes and creepers, as well
as exotic specimens such as miniature, green and
even black roses. The company also holds an annual
rose show for 2 to 3 days in spring for its patrons,
customers, employees and their families.
The company has established a fair-sized nursery
from which, till recently, almost 500 rose cuttings
per year were provided, free of cost, to institutions
and people interested in horticulture. Apart from
growing its own roses, Packages has also taken
a keen interest in the activities of the Horticulture
Society of Pakistan and, for the last four decades,
has been responsible for managing the annual Chrysanthemum
and Spring Flower Show in Lahore.
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Encouraging
Sport |
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To encourage young sportsmen all over the
country, Packages has been organizing the annual
Jafar Memorial Interschool Hockey Tournament
for the last thirty six years in memory of Syed
Muhammad Jafar, an ex-Olympian who died in his
youth. This popular tournament has proved very
useful in the early selection of promising hockey
players of the future. 41 schools participated
in the 36th championship held in Lahore
and an estimated 35 players of the National Hockey
Team have been identified through these competitive
matches over the years.
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Worldwide
TECHNICAL aid programs |
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The first involvement of Packages in a foreign
assignment was in 1970, when a contract for
providing technical services to Kibo Paper
Industries Ltd., Tanzania, was signed. The
corrugated board manufacturing plant, set up in
1966, was operating at a low capacity and had
accumulated substantial financial losses. The
management was taken over by a team of four
experts from Packages, and company operations
started generating profits within the first year
of this switchover. |
The second opportunity followed soon after. In
1971, Packages extended similar services to a
company called P T Guru in Jakarta, which was
set up as a printing/packaging operation in 1970
and had run into serious financial and
production problems. Packages sent another team
of experts to Indonesia in 1971, and succeeded
in turning the company around in a very short
time period.
In the same year, the National Development
Corporation of Tanzania requested Packages to
take over the operation of another of its
companies called Printpak Tanzania. The same
success was achieved here, and a printing ink
manufacturing plant was installed. A team of
experts also commissioned, constructed and
operated Tanzania's first paper mill. |
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In 1979, a six million dollar plant called Nasco
Packages was set up in Jos, Nigeria for the
manufacture of offset cartons, flexible
packaging and corrugated containers. The plant
went on to become one of the main packaging
companies in Northern Nigeria, and a great
financial success.
Towards the end of 1979, Packages provided
expertise in the installation and management of
a modern corrugated box manufacturing plant in
Kuwait named Carton Industries Company SAK. A
packaging plant in Yemen, engaged in the
manufacture of polyethylene film was also
technically supported for a short while during
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Just when its assistance to these countries was
coming to an end, Packages accepted the singular
challenge of helping a floundering company in
Russia. Tetra Pak AB (Kuban) was a packaging
complex of three factories with facilities for
manufacturing folding cartons, flexible
packaging and corrugated boxes. In a two-and-a-half years' association, assistance was provided
in formulating a management information system,
streamlining production operations and training
local staff.
Thus, in its history of about five decades,
Packages has somewhat repaid the debt of
gratitude it owes to the developed world by
helping needy and disadvantaged companies in
other developing countries.
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