Our Company
More Than Just Products We Deliver Control.
OUR COMPANY
More Than Just Products We Deliver Control.
Why Operational Leaders Choose BGR
Eliminate risk and lock in results.
Get measurable cost savings and performance improvements—guaranteed. If we don’t deliver, we pay you.
Fast adoption. Immediate impact.
Our experts ensure seamless onboarding, full transparency, and automation gap closure—without disrupting your operations.
Hidden Productivity Gains:
Every hidden inefficiency costs you. Our solutions eliminate hidden inefficiencies, reduce waste, and ensure uninterrupted production—so your site runs at peak performance.
Full control over your packaging spend.
Track costs across inventory, automation, and supply chain, eliminating waste and ensuring predictable, optimized spending.
Turn data into a competitive advantage. 99% operations run blind to hidden packaging costs — purchasing, inventory, and supply chain drain profitability without visibility. BGR transforms data into a competitive advantage, optimizing every packaging decision.
Turn data into a competitive advantage. 99% operations run blind to hidden packaging costs — purchasing, inventory, and supply chain drain profitability without visibility. BGR transforms data into a competitive advantage, optimizing every packaging decision.
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Whether you need to buy smarter, improve throughput, or streamline indirect spend—BGR gives you the control to win.
Control What Matters Most.
- For Buyers: Get packaging prices that meet or beat your current supplier—with locked-in savings.
- For Operations & CI leaders: Maximize packaging performance across the line, with improvements in throughput, inventory flow, and pack design—plus locked-in pricing to control costs.
- For Procurement leaders: Cut total packaging spend by consolidating pricing, products, and suppliers across all locations.
The Packaging Supply Chain (PSC™)
We turn hidden packaging costs into millions in savings.
Packaging waste averages $3.3M per $100M facility—and most of it hides in plain sight. BOMs and CI tools miss it. We don’t. Our in-house experts expose hidden costs in every area packaging touches—purchasing, inventory, pack-design, throughput, and delivery—then turn them into cost savings, performance, and control.
We deliver measurable, Bottom-line impact.
Expertise is only valuable if it delivers results. Our solutions solve for challenges in purchasing, inventory, throughput, and more—translating insights into outcomes that put you in control.
Challenge: Damage issues, process gaps, poor SKU control
Solution: Annual Impact Program + CI support
Result: $3.8M in verified savings across 6+ locations
Challenge: Aged automation, inefficient processes
Solution: Annual Impact Program implementation
Result: $393K in Year 1, over $800K in cumulative savings
Challenge: Frequent damage from outdated boxes + no automation
Solution: Facility Audit, new materials + automation upgrades
Result: $1M saved and scalable growth opportunity
We deliver measurable, Bottom-line impact.
Expertise is only valuable if it delivers results. Our solutions solve for challenges in purchasing, inventory, throughput, and more—translating insights into outcomes that put you in control.
BGR AT A GLANCE
Our Purpose
Unpack Potential.
Deliver Value.
We work to unpack hidden potential and deliver enduring value for our customers, employees, and community.
Our Values
OWN IT
Take responsibility of the challenge with urgency and integrity.
INNOVATE FEARLESSLY
Learn every day with humility & challenge the status quo to drive enduring positive change.
WIN TOGETHER
Achieve more through collaboration and treating others with respect.
Our Capabilities
Global Buying Power
Our in-house purchasing team sources 8,000+ SKUs of packaging materials, facility supplies, and equipment from 1,800+ onshore and offshore suppliers—bringing deep industry expertise to every customer. We leverage this scale to reduce supply risk and deliver competitive pricing our customers can count on.
National Reach
Our logistics team operates what we call our ‘Flexible Footprint’ — 10+ warehouses and a 3PL network across all 48 contiguous states—backed by real-time RFID inventory visibility, local stocking, and our One Price Promise. Providing customers with scalable distribution, consistent supply, and uninterrupted delivery.
Supply Chain Optimization
Our in-house packaging and supply chain experts use our proprietary PSC™ tool to uncover hidden costs—optimizing how you buy, use, store, and ship packaging. This unpacks increased process efficiency, performance gains, and cost savings worth hundreds of thousands—even millions.
Custom Printing
Our in-house print team produces boxes, labels, tape, and pouches at scale—supporting branded packaging for marketing and industrial labeling for warehouse and shipping. This dual capability helps reduce print costs, improve efficiency, and boost brand impact.
End-of-Line Automation Expertise
Our expert in-house team designs, installs, and maintains integrated end-of-line systems—delivering fast service, planned maintenance, and factory-certified support from 50+ leading equipment partners. That means higher throughput, fewer manual touches, and real labor cost savings—unlocking both performance and growth with packaging automation.
Pack-Design
Our in-house design team proactively uncovers hidden packaging costs and engineers smarter designs that save you money. We reduce shipping damage, excess material, and freight costs—while improving throughput on the packing line.
RFID Inventory & Smart Replenishment
Our in-house RFID team deploys end-to-end systems—from tags to software—to eliminate manual counts, stockouts and 99.9% accuracy using real-time visibility and replenishment models like min-max and consignment. Built to drive customer’s profitability by increasing visibility of indirect inventory.
Continuous Improvement Audits
Our in-house CI team conducts on-site audits using data-driven tools and ROI-focused reporting. With expertise across automation, RFID, packaging, and supply chain, we uncover hidden costs and model savings opportunities—often worth hundreds of thousands, even millions—all backed by unmatched performance guarantees.
Fast Facts
- 200+ employees & growing
- $170M+ revenue
- 8,000+ SKUs
- 1,800 Active suppliers
- 10 warehouse locations
- 500,000+ sq. ft. of warehouse space
BGR operates warehouses, ship-to sites, and a trusted network of 3PLs for safety stock across the 48 contiguous states, ensuring seamless coverage and support for our customers
BGR delivers tailored packaging solutions across Manufacturing, Co-Packing, Distribution, and E-commerce. From automotive to food processing & building materials we’ve seen it all—and solved it.
Over 1,800 active supplier relationships with the industry’s top names in packaging and automation—including leaders like 3M, Signode, Wulftec, Sealed Air, and more.
- Dean & Allen Backscheider, Co-Chairmen
- Phil Schneider, CEO
- Vince Muglia, CFO
- Fred Wehby, CRO
- Jeff Dickson, CCO
Founded in 1972 by Al Backscheider, BGR has grown into Ohio’s largest family-operated packaging distributor.
From packaging materials to cutting-edge automation—BGR offers everything your packaging operation needs to run stronger.
Packaging Materials
Bags, stretch film, tape, corrugate, strapping, labels, void fill, shrink wrap, protective packaging (foam-in-place, cornerboard), cold chain packaging, & mailers.
Facility Supplies
Floor tape, bins, safety supplies, janitorial and sanitation products.
Packaging Equipment
Stretch wrappers (e.g., Wulftec), case erectors and sealers (e.g., Combi, 3M), strapping machines (e.g., Signode), protective packaging systems (e.g., Sealed Air), robots and cobots (e.g., Universal Robots).
RFID Products
RFID tags, readers, and tracking software.
In-House, Expert Teams, Built to Solve.
- Dedicated RFID team
- Automation, service & parts division
- Printing, converting & design team
- Product specialists—tape, stretch, and corrugate