Nicholl Food Packing – now part of Advanta When Nicholl Food Packaging acquired its major competitor in 2001, it became one of the two largest European suppliers in its sector. Not bad for a company that had only been in business for twelve years. Now part of Advanata, Nicholl supplies aluminium containers for the catering and fast food/ethnic take-away trades, for institutional caterers and for the bakery industry, next time you buy a Mr Kipling cake, it will be packaged in a Nicholl foil cup. The company operates from three manufacturing plants in the UK, the head office being in the West Midlands. Its vertical presses turn out 800 million medium to large containers every year. A major refurbishment of the site’s storage and distribution facilities took place in 2001. As the wareho

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