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Company history
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| 1877 | Ernst Mayer founds the company and opens the Ernst Mayer envelope company in Heilbronn.
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| 1909 | A subsidiary is founded in Dresden. Mayer-Kuvert already have 500 employees. |
| 1944 | On the 4th of December, all production sites are destroyed by bombing. |
| 1983 | Edlef Bartl acquires the Ernst Mayer envelope factory in Heilbronn. With a specialised industry knowledge and wider ambitions, he has laid the foundations for the Mayer-Kuvert-network to become the industry leader in Europe. |
| 1991 | The company moves into its current premises. All production is now contained on one purpose built site. |
| 2003 | The Mayer-Kuvert-network becomes the largest privately owned envelope company in Europe. |
| 2007 | The group becomes the market leader in Europe. A strategic alliance with the Spanish Tompla group (European Envelope Partners) allows the group to give customer service in all European countries. |
| 2008 | The Mayer-Kuvert-network has a workforce of 2100 employees at 40 sites in 23 countries. The group produces in excess of 20 billion envelopes a year. The Global Services Group (GSG) is formed with the Tompla Group (Spain) Imura envelopes (Japan) and National envelope (USA). Within this alliance, the Mayer-Kuvert-network can supply customers in almost every country in the world. |