Building a Better World Through Business
BW Packaging is part of Barry-Wehmiller, a combination of more than 150 acquisitions that form a portfolio spanning industrial and packaging automation, professional services and life sciences technology to reach a diverse set of markets, customers and consumers.
From everyday essentials to life-saving innovations, we operate where trust, precision and human impact matter most.
By focusing on sectors vital to daily life and progress, we generate lasting value—creating economic growth that benefits all stakeholders across industries, roles and communities.
With a proven, enduring business model and operating playbook, we have combined a disciplined acquisition strategy with purpose-driven organic growth. Our approach creates lasting value rooted in shared values—realizing our belief that business can be the most powerful force for good.
Barry-Wehmiller is recognized globally for pioneering a model of leadership that unites trust, safety and growth.
We’ve built a culture where people are empowered to perform with excellence while caring for others. Through shared purpose, we create a place where people experience and contribute to vibrancy that radiates not only to our customers and other stakeholders in our businesses, but to our team members’ families, communities, and the world around them.
“We are creating undeniable proof that businesses can achieve sustained, elite performance without sacrificing their humanity. We’re creating an organization where individual fulfillment and collective thriving come together. Where lasting value is rooted in shared values. And where our legacy is measured by the way we touch the lives of people.”Kyle Chapman, President & CEO Barry-Wehmiller
We build a better world through business by demonstrating how economic growth and human vibrancy work in harmony, redefining success in business.
Barry-Wehmiller’s intention of creating a better world through business – or what we call Truly Human Leadership – is the subject of a best-selling book, Everybody Matters: The Extraordinary Power of Caring for Your People Like Family, co-written by our late Chairman and CEO, Bob Chapman (1945-2026). Everybody Matters is the story of how Barry-Wehmiller evolved from a broken $20 million business in the 1970s to a $3.6+ billion organization with more than 150 acquisitions today. But it also tells the story of Bob’s transformation from a traditional business manager to a leader whose mantra became:
“The way we lead impacts the way people live.”
Bob’s realizations changed Barry-Wehmiller and his book and message became an influential inspiration to those hungry for a new way of leading and a new way of viewing the relationship between a business and the people within its span of care.
Upon its release in 2015, Everybody Matters was a Wall Street Journal best seller. The book has since been translated into eight languages and in 2025 was re-released in a revised and expanded edition with 90 additional pages of insights.
Our Impact
In 2016, Barry-Wehmiller’s unique approach to business was featured in a case study by Harvard Business School, which is now taught at 70+ business schools around the world.
As companies began to reach out to Barry-Wehmiller to share our insights, Bob founded Chapman & Co. Leadership Institute to share the lessons we have learned by partnering with other companies to create strategic visions, engage employees, improve corporate culture and develop outstanding leaders through leadership training, assessments and workshops.
Additionally, our BW Outreach program works with universities to provide leadership teaching and curriculum. We currently have partnerships or have done significant work with:
