170 year-old Leeds firm launches first overseas premises with new office in Australia

Yorkshire Post

West Yorkshire packaging firm Roberts Mart has launched its first overseas office in the company's 120 year history, opening a new premises in Australia, Michael Crossland reports.

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00:00 Hello I'm Michael Crosland, Business Reporter with the Yorkshire Post and we have some news today

00:04 from the family-run sixth generation commercial packaging firm Roberts Mart which is based in

00:10 Leeds. The company has announced its first overseas office in its 170 year history which is being

00:16 opened in Australia. The company was first launched in 1952 and set up as a paper merchant on Lady

00:23 Lane in Leeds. It later went into handmade bag making and then commercial printing. Fast forward

00:30 to today the company now focuses on commercial packaging and employs a staff of 220 people.

00:38 The company's paired the launch of its new Australian office with the launch of a new

00:41 home compostable packaging material which takes the form of a printed film designed to be used

00:48 on products which have a short shelf life. The firm's marketing director Ben Roberts said the

00:53 company was very excited to be launching both its new product and its first overseas office. So

01:00 exciting times for the company. That's all we have at the minute, I'm Michael Crosland

01:05 reporting for the Yorkshire Post.

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