Best Food Packaging Companies in France
The 93 best Food Packaging companies in France in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: ASV Packaging.
France's Food Packaging sector, ranked here by disclosed equity funding and recent funding momentum across 93 tracked companies, is concentrated at the top: Asv Packaging accounts for $10M of the $11M total disclosed, with Frial a distant second at just under $942K. That's a thin funding base, and it tells you something real about how this corner of the market is structured, mostly established players and a long tail of bootstrapped operators.
Globally, the picture is bigger. The food packaging market hit roughly $353.7B in 2023 and is forecast to nearly double to $592.8B by 2033 at a 5.3% CAGR, driven by convenience food demand and shifting eating habits. What I find striking is the theme divergence right now: coverage of the sector is actually falling even as hot sub-themes, recycled content, plant-based materials, plastic recycling, algae-based packaging, pull serious attention. Concerns about plastic contamination in food are accelerating that shift, pushing both regulators and buyers toward alternative materials faster than the broader funding numbers suggest. Guillin Group and Nutripack show zero disclosed funding but carry real operational weight in France, so the leaderboard here rewards transparency, not just scale.
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Ranked: Best Food Packaging companies in France
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ASV Packaging Manufacturer of folding boxes, pouches, and cardboard packaging 48Growth top 35%Funding top 48%Market bottom 44%Tech bottom 44% All 6 signals ▾Growthtop 35% Fundingtop 48% Marketbottom 44% Techbottom 44% Globalbottom 25% Newsbottom 22% Growth: Fresh capital in last 24 mo Funding: Raised $10.2M across 1 rounds · 1 rounds over 3 yrs (0.3/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 48/100 | $10M | 17 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2020 | WixSentryBootstrap+9 | — | — |
| 2 | Frial Provider of frozen food products packing services | $942K | 62 mo ago | Acquired | Philippe Cadet CEO | 1980 | WordPressMySQLPHP+14 | — | — |
| 3 | GUILLIN Group Provider of food packaging products | — | 48 mo ago | Public | Sophie GUILLIN CEO & MD | 1972 | WordPressMySQLPHP+21 | — | — |
| 4 | Nutripack Provider of eco responsible food packaging services | — | 78 mo ago | Late Stage | Philippe Berthe CEO | 1990 | WordPressMySQLPHP+21 | — | — |
| 5 | WIT FRANCE Wine packaging products | — | 132 mo ago | Series A | Laurent Crasto Founder | 2007 | — | — | — |
| 6 | 5 sept etiquette 5 Sept Etiquette is a provider of adhesive labels and associated services for the food industry, cosmetics… | — | — | Acquired | — | 1969 | — | — | — |
| 7 | alltub group Alltub Group is in flexible aluminum tubing for the packaging of pharmaceutical, cosmetic, food and… | — | — | Private | — | 2005 | WordPressMySQLPHP+10 | 3 patents Design of extrusion dies for synthetic fiber spinning presses | — |
| 8 | Alpem Manufacturer of paper packaging products. The company focuses on the transformation of paper used for packing… | — | — | Acquired | — | 1964 | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+12 | 11 patents Food packaging pouches and preformed bags for cooking, including windowed designs and production methods | — |
Top 5 Food Packaging companies in France
#1
Acquired · Chateauroux, Centre Val de Loire · founded 2020 · 210 employees$10.2Mraised▾
Manufacturer of folding boxes, pouches, and cardboard packaging
- Jan 2025Seed$10.2M
- Jul 2023Seed—
#2
Acquired · Paris, Ile de France · founded 1980 · 450 employees$941.5Kraised▾
Manufacturer of frozen food products and ready-to-eat meals. The company offers all formats of frozen products such as IQF (individually quick frozen), IVP (individually vacuum pack), IWP (individually wrapped pack) and skin pack along with integrated packaging services for tailor-made graphic designs, enabling retailers to receive white label products which are compliant with regulatory requirements.
- Apr 2021Grant (prize money)$941.5K
#3
Public · Ornans, Bourgogne Franche Comte · founded 1972 · 2909 employees—raised▾
Provider of food packaging products
#4
Late Stage · Flines-lez-Raches, Hauts-de-France · founded 1990—raised▾
Provider of eco responsible food packaging services
- Dec 2019PE—
#5
Series A · Blanquefort, Nouvelle Aquitaine · founded 2007 · 13 employees—raised▾
Manufacturer of glass tube containers intended to offer wines to be stored in individual formats. The company's containers are sealed with crimped screw caps with the same guarantee of quality and preservation as in traditional bottles, enabling consumers to consume wines and spirits even in small formats.
- 2015Series A—
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Food Packaging coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
Common questions
Rohit lives in the feed. He covers what's moving right now — the funding rounds, launches and shifts breaking across the trade press — and ties them back to where the sector is heading.