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Southgate has evolved through organic growth and strategic acquisitions to become Europe’s largest trade supplier of machinery, equipment and associated consumables to the industrial packaging sector. Our investment into exclusive supply chain relationships with global manufacturers has created an unequalled range of products that offer outstanding value.For example, today we sell enough packing tape every year to circle the equator 6,672 times. That is a lot of tape. With an inventory base of over 8,000 pallets across 2,600 stocked products, spanning five strategically placed European Distribution Centres, we are confident that Southgate are evolving the industrial packaging and order fulfilment sectors through innovation, productivity and trusted product brands.In 2019, Southgate acquired its single biggest competitor of packaging machinery and equipment - Packer. This reflects our progressive diversification into wider markets, in particular the rapidly increasing order fulfilment sector.We own nine primary product brands, which each embrace a defined product category. Our product groups span; Strapping, Taping, Fulfilment, Machinery, Stapling, Transit, Budget, Postal and Bags and Security. Southgate systems provide solutions to fast-paced fulfilment centres. Void fill systems, including cardboard shredding machines provide cost effective methods for protecting products in transit and automatic strapping machines and stretch wrapping machines boost operating productivity and maximise product protection.Sustainable packaging is now high on every manufacturing and distribution company’s agenda, but for eco-friendly packaging to be truly viable, it must be equal in terms of cost-efficiency and performance to the products it will replace.Southgate has thus launched a recognition scheme – the Green High Five – to highlight its products that offer one or more of five criteria: sustainable, recyclable, reusable, biodegradable and waste reductive.While we are responsive to the demands of an increasingly ‘digital’ business environment, we are still at heart a ‘people’ business with an enthusiastic, friendly and knowledgeable team devoted to giving our customers the very best experience...