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

Privately-held Bolton Group is parent to Collistar makeup and skin treatments and a wide range of personal and household care products that include Neutro Roberts body care, Sanogyl dental care, Omino Bianco laundry care and Carolin floor cleaners, among many other products that are well known among European consumers, including canned tuna. In fact, Bolton’s food unit accounts for nearly half (49%) of the firm’s total revenues, with household and laundry at 17%, personal care at 16% and beauty at 5%. (Bolton also has an adhesives business, which represents 13% of sales.)

Bolton has increased production at its Calenzano, Italy plant, ramping up output of Manetti & Roberts roll-on deodorants. Specifically, production jumped from six million units packed in 2010 to 10 million units in 2015, according to the firm.

Earlier this year, Neutro Roberts was relaunched with a new logo that is said to merge the Manetti & Roberts pharmacy logo with the classic blue Neutro Roberts logo.
Joseph Nissim, who is well in his 90s, is reportedly still at the helm of the company he founded.

The Netherlands
www.boltongroup.net

Sales: $2.3 billion (estimated)

Execs at The Bolton Group maintain that sales doubled in the past 10 years. During that time, the company has acquired 11 major companies and brands. Furthermore, during the past seven years, it has established new subsidiaries in five countries.

Household and personal care products represent only a portion of the company’s business. Food represents 43% of sales, followed by personal and health care (19%), household care (19%), adhesives and glues (13%) and beauty care (6%).

By region, Italy accounts for 49% of sales, followed by France (16%), Rest of Europe (7%), Benelux, Greece and Spain (6% each), and rest of world (5%). Bolton Group is a leading player in Italy via its top-selling Collistar brand.

19. Bolton Group

The Netherlands

www.boltongroup.net

Sales: $1.2 billion (estimated)

Bolton Group, a privately held company, began as a regional distributor in 1949 and has grown to an international firm sporting 50 product lines with a strong portfolio of household, personal care and beauty products.

Bolton Group has doubled sales in the past 10 years, has almost doubled its advertising investments in the past five years, has acquired 11 major companies and brands in the past 10 years, and has established new subsidiaries in five countries in the last seven years.

But household and personal care products only represent a portion of the business. According to the company, 16.6% of its corporate sales stem from personal care, 20.2% from household care and 5.9% from beauty care products. Food products accounted for 44% of sales, adhesives 13.1% and pet care, its newest business, represented 0.2%.

The Netherlands
www.boltongroup.net
Sales: $900 million (estimated)

Privately-held Bolton Group began as a regional distributor in 1949 and has grown to an international firm sporting 50 product lines ranging from food and adhesives to household, personal care and beauty products.

According to Bolton Group, 16.6% of its sales stem from personal care, 20.2% from household care and 5.9% from beauty care products. Food products accounted for 44% of sales, adhesives 13.1% and pet care, its newest business, represented 0.2%.

The Netherlands
www.boltongroup.net
Sales: $1.1 billion

For Bolton Group, personal care products represent 16.1% of sales, household care is 20% and beauty care 5.6%. Industry sources estimate the company’s household and personal care sales to be $1.1 billion. The remainder of the company’s revenues stem from food, pet care products and adhesives.

Collistar’s Abdo-Force is a special supplement that works in tandem with a topical product.

Bolton’s Collistar unit continues to roll out new products every year, and like other cosmetics and beauty firms, it is building its men’s stable and promoting the beauty from inside-out concept with new supplements designed to work in tandem with topical products. Along those lines, the brand has launched an “intensified” version of its Perfect Abdominals Treatment, a topical product that which is now complemented with Abdo-Force, a new supplement specifically for men.

Also new for 2009 is a cellulite treatment supplement called Cell-24, which is sold in capsules and drops. Both supplements are available only in Italy.