IG Design Group plc
- Market Cap (£m) 92.5
- Listing AIM
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Company Descriptions
IG Design Group is a global company that designs, manufactures and distributes products to help customers celebrate life's special occasions. Its product offering comprises five main categories: Celebrations (gift wrap, crackers, bags and cards), Gifting, Stationery, Craft & Creative Play and Not-for-resale consumables (mainly paper bags for retailers). The group produces both own design and licensed product. IG Design works with more than 11,000 customers globally and its products are stocked in more than 210,000 retail outlets in over 70 countries. Its largest customer is Walmart, where IG Design has won Giga-Guru status for its work on supply chain carbon reduction.
Investment Summary
IG Design is a customer-focused, industry-leading operator in what remains a very fragmented global market. The group therefore has significant potential to grow further. Following two major US acquisitions, Impact and CSS, the primary focus of its growth strategy has returned to organic growth to deliver margin expansion and profit growth. Complementary acquisitions will be considered, either to increase scale in existing categories, or to gain market entry into new product categories, which can be leveraged across the wider group, driving further operating efficiencies. The group's three strategic pillars to deliver sales and profit growth are working with retail winners, design & innovation, and efficiency & scale. The group's experienced management team has a strategic and focused approach to delivering increased shareholder value with clearly defined and quantified Key Performance Indicators.
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Company Management Team
Gerald Kuehr
Chief Executive Officer Designate
Gerald served as Chief Executive Officer of Partner in Pet Food (PPF) from 2020 to 2025, where he repositioned the business from an Eastern European, volume-driven private-label player into a pan-European category leader operating across ten markets with 3,000 employees. During his tenure, he also completed five acquisitions.
Prior to this, Gerald held senior global leadership roles at Unilever, most recently as Global Chief Customer Officer.
Gerald is not currently a director of any external companies.
Gerald brings over 30 years of international leadership experience in blue chip consumer businesses.
Rohan Cummings
CFO
Rohan joined as Chief Financial Officer on 3 July 2023.
Rohan joins from Devro plc (which was until recently listed on the LSE) where he has been the group’s CFO since 2020. During his tenure, Rohan was instrumental in the delivery of revenue growth and increased profitability. Prior to joining Devro, Rohan was Chief Financial Officer of Asahi International, part of Asahi Group Holdings, the Japanese listed beverage and food group. Between 2002 and 2016 Rohan held a range of international finance roles with SABMiller culminating as CFO of Birra Peroni in 2014. He played an important role in the carve out of the businesses acquired by Asahi Group in 2016 as part of the ABInbev acquisition of SABMiller.
Rohan is a Chartered Accountant has a MBA and brings to the Board a broad finance and international background. Rohan is a commercially focused finance leader with a track record of making significant contributions to successful growth initiatives.
