Timeline

2018: completion of further storage and loading areas

2017: For the steadily growing area of carton-based packaging, L&S become certified according to the FSC® standard.

2014: 30% expansion of storage capacity.

2012: L&S established capacity at the Henstedt-Ulzburg site for erecting cardboard trays.

2011: Introduction and application of a quality management system and a concept following HACCP principles. Linked with this was the ISO 9001:2008 certification from TÜV Süd.

2010: L&S relocated to the new production facilities in Henstedt-Ulzburg. Moving to this site provided the company with more office, storage and service space. Increasing customer requirements could now be met with even greater flexibility.

2009: L&S collaborated with a client to develop packaging for products for immediate consumption, which then received the Innovation Impact Award in the USA.

2008: L&S opened a sales and exhibition space on Tarpenring. The customised packaging solutions, which were becoming ever more important, were expanded with the establishment of an in-house graphics department creating an additional service area.

2007: The operating facilities at the Hamburg site were extended with a storage and service area being added.

2006: L&S launched its first own packaging ideas onto the market.

2005: Establishment of the online shop www.Verpackungs-Shop-LS.de .Packaging for food and consumables, as well as disposable items were added to the range.

2003: Expansion of the product range to cover the convenience packaging sector.

2001: Peter Busch stepped down from the management board. Frank Schuh became the sole director.

2000: Expansion of the product range to include BOPP films. Moved to own premises at Tarpenring 37 in Hamburg-Langenhorn.

1994: The company’s share capital was increased to €125,000. Frank Schuh, *1967, who was employed by the company in 1990, became an equal co-shareholder. Mr Frank Schuh was appointed as co-director of the company.

1992: The company was converted from a sole-proprietor company to a GmbH (limited liability company).

1990: Wood packaging, such as chip baskets and crates, supported L&S in its aim to become a full range supplier for the fruit and vegetable industry.

1989: Films, pouches and bags on a roll were added to the carrier bag range.

1980: The supply range was extended with the addition of plastic and cotton mesh packaging.

1970: L&S expanded its range, now supplying thermoformed trays and plastic nest boxes, mainly for the fruit and vegetable industry.

1968: Theodor Sievers passed away. Peter Busch continued the leadership of the organisation as a sole-proprietor company.

1960: L&S supplied retail chains, branded companies and the fruit and vegetable industry with PE pouches, and later with service bags and carrier bags, which went on to become the company’s core business.

1959: The trained industrial management assistant Peter Busch, *1939, began working at the company as an employee. With increasing communications and improved transport structures, export agencies were becoming less important. The Treaties of Rome, agreed in 1957, gave the organisation the opportunity to move into the field of selling European industry products in Germany.

1951: The company’s head office at Spitalerstraße 10 in the Semperhaus building was destroyed in the war. After moving to emergency accommodation on Raboisen, L&S relocated its office to the reconstructed Fölsch-Block building in Plan 5.

1924: Mr Lorentzen passed away. Mr Sievers became the sole proprietor.

1920: The partnership was founded by Messrs Lorentzen and Sievers. For travelling merchants form all over the world, L&S showed what the European industry had to offer. L&S was specialised in so-called Sundries and Hardware, which included products such as tools, construction hardware, agricultural equipment (blade hoes), rolling mill products (rickshaw rim hoop iron) and ship chains.