What Yuri Gagarin does

Yuri Gagarin is a publicly listed Bulgarian packaging manufacturer based in Plovdiv, operating since 1964 and trading on the Bulgarian Stock Exchange under the ticker YGAG (bse:YGAG). The firm manufactures and sells multi-color printed packaging and labels made from cardboard, serving industrial customers in the regional packaging market. It employs between 101 and 250 people and operates a for-profit business model with publicly accessible corporate identity via its website (gagarin.eu).

The company's core operations center on commercial print packaging production, a mature commodity-adjacent industry where revenue is driven by print volumes, customer relationships with brand owners and converters, and operational efficiency. As a publicly listed entity, it is subject to standard Bulgarian capital markets disclosure requirements; however, no disclosed revenue figures, pricing models, customer segments, or technology investments were present in the available source material.

Important data caveat: the detailed input blocks describe a Russian state-owned aerospace complex — the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre (Star City) and the Yuri Gagarin Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aircraft Plant (a Su-57 fighter jet assembler under United Aircraft Corporation/Rostec) — which are entirely separate entities that share the same name. The partnerships, customer logos (ISRO Gaganyaan, Indian astronauts), technology (spaceflight training), and production data (Su-57, 103-entity supply chain) in those blocks do not refer to the Bulgarian packaging company and have been excluded from this analysis. No revenue, customer, expansion, or technology signals specific to the Bulgarian packaging entity were available beyond the firmographic-level facts.

Name

Yuri Gagarin

Website

https://gagarin.eu

Company type

Private

Founded year

1964

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Yuri Gagarin is a Bulgarian public packaging manufacturer (BSE:YGAG) that produces multi-color printed cardboard packaging and labels for industrial customers from its base in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Packaging Manufacturing

NAICS

Other Paperboard Container Manufacturing (322219), Corrugated and Solid Fiber Box Manufacturing (322211)

SIC

Commercial Printing (2750), Paperboard Containers & Boxes (2650)

akta.pro primary industry

Specialty Paper Packaging (Gift Boxes, Luxury Cartons, Composite Paper Cans) (IMALACAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

Corrugated Packaging (Boxes, Sheets, Pads) (IMALACAA), Flexible Packaging Printing (Film/Poly/Paper Print) (IMALAKAG)

Keywords

• Printed packaging
• Cardboard labels
• Multi-color printing
• Packaging manufacturing
• Label printing

Headquarters

HQ city

Plovdiv

HQ country

Bulgaria

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

Yuri Gagarin manufactures and sells multi-color printed packaging and labels of cardboard. The company operates as a packaging manufacturer based in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, producing physical packaging products for business customers across industries requiring branded or printed cardboard packaging.

Product overview

No product or service information available in the provided sources.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Multi-color printed packaging Multi-color printed packaging made of cardboard, manufactured and sold by Yuri Gagarin to business customers for use as primary or secondary packaging of commercial products.
• Cardboard labels Printed cardboard labels produced by Yuri Gagarin using multi-color printing, supplied to businesses for product labeling and branding.

Named customers1 record

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) - Gaganyaan ProgramcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2022The Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre provided training and mentorship for four Indian astronauts (Shubhanshu Shukla, Prashanth B Nair, Angad Pratap, and Ajit Krishnan) preparing for India's Gaganyaan mission, the country's first human spaceflight program. Russian cosmonaut Denis Matveev, who trained at the centre and spent 195 days aboard the ISS, served as their mentor during this period.

Scale indicators3 records

Expansion highlights1 record

Broad incumbents

• Saica Group: Spanish-headquartered European paper and packaging group producing recycled paperboard and corrugated packaging. Comparable in serving FMCG and industrial customers with printed cardboard packaging across multiple European geographies.
• Mondi Group: Major European integrated paper and packaging group producing corrugated, kraft paper, and specialty paperboard packaging. Comparable as the dominant regional incumbent serving many of the same end-markets as the Bulgarian printer, but at vastly larger scale and across the full fiber-based value chain.
• Stora Enso: Nordic integrated forest products company with large consumer board and packaging divisions. Comparable as a paperboard producer and converter serving folding carton and graphical paperboard end-uses that overlap with the Bulgarian firm's specialty cardboard printing niche.
• Smurfit Kappa Group: Global paper-based packaging leader with strong European footprint in corrugated and folding cartons. Comparable as a direct competitor for multi-national FMCG and industrial customers using printed cardboard packaging, though materially larger and more geographically diversified.
• Graphic Packaging Holding Company: US-headquartered paperboard packaging producer specializing in folding cartons and coated recycled board. Comparable in core folding-carton / multi-color printed paperboard product family, though focused primarily on the Americas and global FMCG accounts.
• Huhtamäki: Global food and consumer goods packaging group with a strong European fiber-based and foodservice carton business. Comparable as a converter of printed paperboard packaging into branded consumer applications overlapping the Bulgarian firm's niche.
• WestRock Company: Large US/global paper and packaging company with consumer packaging and corrugated divisions. Comparable as a broad multi-color paperboard converter and printer at much larger scale and with deeper structural design capabilities.

Direct peers

• Reno de Medici (RDM Group): European recycled fiber-based paperboard and folding carton producer, particularly strong in Southern and Eastern Europe. Comparable as a regional converter serving the same types of brand-owner customers with printed paperboard cartons.
• Mayr-Melnhof Karton: European specialist in recycled and virgin fiber folding boxboard and converted cartons. Closely comparable in product mix — coated paperboard cartons with multi-color printing — though larger and more vertically integrated into board manufacturing.
• AR Packaging (MM Packaging): European specialist converter of printed folding cartons and flexible packaging serving FMCG, food, and pharma customers. Comparable as a mid-sized European player focused on multi-color printed paperboard cartons for brand-owner clients, similar in customer profile and product mix.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat1 record

Key risks4 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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