Bunzl
| Formerly | Bunzl Pulp & Paper Limited (1940–1982) |
|---|---|
| Company type | Public limited company |
| LSE: BNZL FTSE 100 Component | |
| Industry | Distribution and outsourcing |
| Founded | 1854 (Pozsony, Hungary) |
| Headquarters | London, England, UK |
Key people | Peter Ventress (Chairman) Frank van Zanten (CEO) |
| Products | Distribution of catering equipment, cleaning products, paper and plastic packaging, food processing equipment, medical gloves and disposable hygiene products, personal protective equipment, vending machine supplies |
| Revenue | £11,776.4 million (2024) |
| £799.3 million (2024) | |
| £501.0 million (2024) | |
Number of employees | 24,500 (2025) |
| Website | www |
Bunzl Public Limited Company is a British multinational distribution and outsourcing company headquartered in London, England.
The activities of the company have changed a number of times during its existence, frequently incorporating the disparate business interests of the founding Bunzl family, which trace their history back to a haberdashery opened in Pozsony in 1854. The current company was established in London in 1940 as a manufacturer of cigarette filters, crêpe and tissue paper, and the production of fibres, pulp, paper, building materials and plastics were all brought into the firm – and subsequently sold – over the following decades. Bunzl restructured itself as a company purely focused on distribution through a divestment process which began in the early 1990s and ended with the 2005 spin out of Filtrona.
Bunzl has been listed on the London Stock Exchange since 1957 and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.