WAUKEGAN, Ill.—The Visual Pak Companies acquired Cosmetic Labs of America (CLA) from Unilever, Chatsworth, Calif., a premier West Coast contract packaging company producing formulas and packages within the personal care and cosmetic industries.
"At a time when many of our competitors are struggling or looking to downsize, we are aggressively looking to grow both organically and through acquisitions to strengthen our company," said Clayton Bolke, CEO, The Visual Pak Companies. "This acquisition enhances both our product offering and our geographic footprint to better serve existing and new customers."
Oscar Saldarriaga, general manager of CLA, will join The Visual Pak Companies continuing to lead and manage CLA business activities.
"This is a synergistic acquisition that will benefit both companies' growth plans," said Saldarriaga. "Combining Visual Pak's vertically integrated packaging service offering with CLA's strengths in product development and custom packaging will have an immediate and long term benefit to customer's growth plans. We are also excited that CLA's employees will become part of The Visual Pak Companies team."
CLA realizes the importance of providing reliable contract manufacturing service to its customers. It will work closely with the three other Visual Pak blending and filling plant locations in the Waukegan area doing business under the American Blending & Filling name. American Blending & Filling currently produces liquid, cream and gel products for the household, health & beauty and personal-care markets, filling product into tubes, bottles, jars and other package types of all kinds and provides comprehensive R&D and turnkey sourcing services.
