IG Design Group plc
- Market Cap (£m) 91.4
- 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.
Ari Bensoussan
Chief Financial Officer
Ari has nearly 30 years’ experience across finance, strategy and M&A in global consumer businesses. He joins from Thai Union Group PCL, a global seafood leader, where he has served as Chief Financial Officer, Europe since 2021. Prior to this, Ari spent almost 25 years at Nestlé, holding a number of senior roles including Head of Finance and Group Controller at Nestlé Waters as well as Head of Operations Strategy and Mergers and Acquisitions Director for the Nestlé Group. Ari holds extensive international, commercial and industrial experience.
