RKW has won the P&G External Business Partner of the Year Award for 2018 in the Baby Care category. By honoring RKW with this prestigious award, Procter & Gamble recognises the contribution that RKW makes to the growth of its business.

The RKW team is delighted to receive P&G’s External Business Partner of the Year Award (sixth from the right RKW CEO Harald Biederbick, to his left Klaus Hering, VP Sales & Business Development Hygiene & Industrial, to his right Claudia Sack, Director Sales Hygiene Europe, and Dr. Manfred Bracher, RKW Board Member and responsible for the Division Hygiene & Industrial)
Procter & Gamble recognised its top-performing external business partners for their outstanding contributions to its global supply network transformation during a summit in the US on 5 February, RKW was selected as the leading supplier in the Baby Care category for 2018.
Serving both the Baby Care and Feminine Hygiene categories, RKW is a global supplier to P&G. With the award, P&G acknowledges that RKW’s partnership is important to the growth of its business.
RKW CEO Harald Biederbick said: “Our company is founded on the values of respect and reliability. Partnership and trust are the basis of our business success and allow us to build lasting sustainable business relationships. These values are reflected in this prestigious award, for which I thank P&G on behalf of the whole team.”
Dr. Manfred Bracher, RKW Executive VP, added: “With an expanding global footprint and significant investments over recent years to support growth of our business with P&G, we are proud to be able to offer the quality and service that our customer expects of a top supplier.”
The RKW Group
The RKW Group is an independent, family-owned company headquartered in Frankenthal, Germany, and one of the world’s foremost manufacturers of film solutions. The German company is the market leader in hygiene and agricultural films, films for the beverage industry, and packaging for powdery goods.
In addition, the company makes films and non-wovens for medical applications, for the chemical and converting industries, and for the construction sector.
In the fiscal year 2017, RKW generated total sales of €905m. About 3,000 employees process 378,000 tonnes of plastic materials at 20 locations around the world.