The Netherlands
www.boltongroup.net
Sales: $1.0 billion

Privately-held Bolton is still run by its 90 year-old founder Joseph Nissim. Household and laundry care and personal care and well-being each account for 18% of sales; beauty care, just 6%. Food represents 45% of sales and adhesives, 6%.

By region, Italy accounts for 48% of corporate sales, followed by France (16%), Rest of Europe (8%), Benelux (6%), Rest of World (6%), and Germany, Greece and Spain (5% each).

Earlier this year, Bolton acquired Génie, the leading brand in France’s hand-washing laundry segment with a 71% share.

The Netherlands
www.boltongroup.net
Sales: $2.3 billion

Bolton knows tuna and toilet bowl cleaner and eyeshadow. The company manufactures a wide range of products. By category, household care accounted for 18%; personal and health care, 18%; and beauty care accounted for 6%. Outside Happi’s field of interest, food represented 45% of sales in 2013 and adhesives and glue represented 13%. By region, Italy is Bolton’s No. 1 market, accounting for 49% of group sales, due in part to the success of the Collistar brand, which the company acquired in 1992. France is next at 16%, followed by Rest of Europe (8%), Benelux and Rest of World (6%), and Spain, Greece and Germany, 5% each.

The Netherlands
www.boltongroup.net

Sales: $2.4 billion

The Bolton Group is a privately-held consumer products company with interests in a range of product categories. Food accounted for 45% of corporate sales last year, followed by personal and health care (18%), household care (18%), adhesives and glues (13%) and beauty care (6%). It operates in 125 countries in Europe, the Middle East, the Americas and Australia.

The company may be Europe’s biggest supplier of canned tuna, but it’s got its hooks into the anti-aging segment as well. Last year, the Bolton Group unit expanded its Special Anti-Age line to include Collistar Bio-Revitalizing Cream with a collagen and hyaluronic activator and a novel application method. The formula is composed of three types of hyaluronic acid each having a different molecular weight, three essential amino acids, six vitamins, 80 minerals and an active antioxidant extracted from ocean algae to protect against oxidative stress and block enzymes which destroy collagen and elastin. The Vector Matrix roller applies the cream deep into the dermis for enhanced results that cannot be achieved by a topical action alone, according to the company. The face cream is available in two versions for normal and dry skin and, alongside the Vector Matrix, a set of massage techniques is included to make the best possible use of the tool.

For the body, Collistar launched Thermoactive Thalasso scrub that contains 90 different types of sea salts of varying grain sizes and a mix of active ingredients to give an energy boost and reinvigorate the body. Six different plant extracts perform a dual action in stimulating lipase enzymes to break down fatty deposits and at the same time prevent the formation of new ones, according to brand executives.