Mapping the Way to a More Sustainable Future

Great Northern exists to serve its customers, team members and the communities in which we work.

For our team members, we deliver on building a people-centric culture, developing leaders from within, and sending people home fulfilled about their role and contributions. For our customers, challenges are met with an undying commitment to doing what others can’t or won’t. For our communities, we strive to make a difference with environmental, social, and governance initiatives that unite us and ensure a better future together.

We are making a difference for our community, environment, customers, and team members.

Our Product Portfolio

Our brands help many customers solve in-store display, merchandising, packaging, and shipping challenges in the most sustainable way possible.

With our varied product offerings and many value-added services, rest assured Great Northern can handle your challenges in their entirety.

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Making a Difference ESG Program

Our ESG program is entering its seventh year of success. We have responded to many requests about our program from customers who use this information to support their own programs.

Great Northern uses a variety of outside ESG auditors at our customers’ request. These include EcoVadis, Sedex, and CDP.

Great Northern provides an annual Report to the Community each January that looks back at the past year’s ESG accomplishments.

ESG Program

The Core Values that Drive Us

Integrity

The founders of Great Northern exemplified the values of trust and integrity. Today every team member lives these values by treating customers and coworkers with respect and by doing the right thing.


Working consistently with same team of Great Northern and customers year over year gives us consistent teamwork to pursue growing our businesses together. It takes integrity and trust amongst the team to build strong relationships.

Allison Muldoon - Account Executive, Great Northern Instore

Opportunities for Growth

Bringing out the best in each of our team members ultimately helps our customers win. We do this by providing growth and leadership opportunities at every level.


We believe in and provide opportunities for personal growth. If you take care of the company, the company will take care of you. We have an understanding leadership team that listens and values team member input.

Jason Frohn - Production Supervisor, Great Northern Packaging

Entrepreneurial Spirit

I love over-delivering and making customers say “WOW!"


We go the “extra mile” and work with urgency because it’s part of our culture. Great Northern focuses on service and solving customer challenges, not selling the most paper possible.

Paul Schulte - Account Manager

A Shared Future

We value our long-term relationships with customers and team members and are committed to a future where we all win.


I enjoy being a member of the Great Northern Cares team, which gives us the ability to make a difference in our community. It really hit home during our back-to-school drive as my son started pre-school this year.

Nicole Goers - Account Coordinator, Great Northern Packaging

“We help our customers win by doing what others can’t or won’t” gives us a clear purpose and raises the bar for performance.

We help our team members be at their best through opportunities for growth and a shared future.

  • Integrity
  • Opportunities for growth
  • Entrepreneurial Spirit
  • Shared future

Great Northern History

Learn about Great Northern’s 60-year history by clicking the button below.

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Careers

Great Northern is a leading developer and manufacturer of creative solutions for packaging, shipping, merchandising and distributing products for industrial, commercial and retail markets. Great Northern is headquartered in Appleton, Wisconsin, and has operations in five states.

We offer competitive compensation and benefits packages and a challenging, rewarding work environment.

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Explore career opportunities at our locations in: Appleton, WI Racine, WI Chippewa Falls, WI Twin Cities, MN Oshkosh, WI Laminations/Rollguard

Great Expectations

Great Expectations is more than a tagline, it is an attitude. At Great Northern, customer challenges are met by an undying spirit to doing what others can’t or won’t. It’s in our DNA. And it is what our customers have come to expect with Great Northern.

How can we exceed your expectations?

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