Easternpak Achieves Papa John’s Excellent Supplier Status

Easternpak successfully passes Papa John’s supplier re-audit, taking place on 4 April 2012. The corrugated packaging manufacturer received ‘Excellent’ status by scoring of 97.2% on the stringent supplier audit. The audit took place in Easternpak plant in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, conducted by NSF-CMi Senior Audit Manager- India Gulf & Middle East, Suhas Bedekar.

Easternpak supplies corrugated pizza boxes to Papa John’s restaurants in Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, KSA, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, and the UAE. Papa John’s Packaging Audit Program uses a standard score card system to evaluate supplier systems and premises. The international chain of restaurants classifies suppliers according to audit scores.

Fouad Khalil, Easternpak General Manager, states,

“Easternpak passed Papa John’s audit with Excellent status, scoring 97.2%. This demonstrates synchronized teamwork, high level of dedication to continuous improvement and alignment towards the same goals.

Our company smoothly passed this audit with the efforts of all employees. I would like to thank each member of Easternpak family, not only for passing the audit and achieving one of the highest rankings, but for their strong commitment and efforts to break record after record and to shift Easternpak from good to great.”

In addition to pizza boxes, Easternpak manufactures other corrugated packaging for the catering sector, such as cup carry-out trays, double-decker pizza boxes, single serve takeout boxes, and takeout boxes for meals.

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About Easternpak

Founded in 1994, Easternpak manufactures retail ready packaging, shelf ready packaging, point-of-purchase (POP) displays, promotional cartons, and corrugated boxes for the agricultural, beverage, catering, dairy, hygiene disposables, industrial, petro/chemical, processed food, pharmaceutical, soap and detergent industries.

Easternpak serves Saudi Arabia, MENA region and several European markets and is ISO-9001:2000, HACCP, GMP and BRC IoP Global Standard certified.

Easternpak is a member of INDEVCO Paper Containers, a division of the multinational INDEVCOGroup.