Klabin awarded by Exame magazine

Klabin received good news last Monday night: the company was elected the best company from the pulp and paper sector by the 2010 edition of Melhores & Maiores (The Best and The Biggest) of Exame magazine.

The annual edition of Melhores & Maiores is the principal financial ranking of the country’s largest companies and is designed to measure the individual performance of these companies. This edition, which arrived on the newsstands on Thursday the 8th, contains a list of the 1,000 biggest companies in Brazil, the results of the 100 biggest corporate groups and also the best companies in 18 sectors of the economy elected in accordance with the success they achieved running their businesses in 2009.

Over 3,500 companies were analyzed using managerial and economic criteria; indicators which were also taken into account included assets, profitability, liquidity, value generated per employee among others. Klabin was evaluated in all these areas.

The company is highlighted in the study, where its 2009 performance is concerned, mainly because of the strategy it used to sidestep and overcome the global financial crisis. During the period, Klabin conserved its cash and wagered on and invested in the production capacity of Paper Machine 9, installed in the Monte Alegre Plant in Telemaco Borba, and on the high quality of its products. The biggest Brazilian manufacturer of paper for packaging and paper–made packaging also knew how to control costs, while maintaining the required investments for the operation and safety of people and installations. Furthermore, confident of a post-crisis rebound in demand, the company went out to find new customers.

Focused on accomplishing more with less, reviewing processes and improving environmental standards, the company has managed to achieve good results in lowering energy and water consumption in all its plants and also in the reduction of power generation from fuel oil.

The prize-giving ceremony took place on the 5th of July, in São Paulo and among those present were members of the Board of Administration, the company’s managing director, Reinoldo Poernbacher and other members of the Executive Board.