The Team behind RE-ZIP

A Strong Team

with global reach, residing in Aarhus

Founder & CEO

Bo Bach Boddum

Bo manage the office and is responsible for the day-to-day operations. Additionally, he stays ahead when it comes to business development and project coordination.

Tlf: +45 60 70 70 90
Mail: [email protected]

Co-founder & CCO

Thomas Fugl

Thomas has an extensive background in managing medium and large companies, nationally as well as internationally. Thomas will use his array of experience to help RE-ZIP move forward on the strategic part of the journey.

Tlf: +45 20 34 03 14
Mail: [email protected]

Content creator

Emilie Lind Damkjær

Emilie makes content for RE-ZIP’s social media and website. She is also responsible for support, so when you call RE-ZIP it is likely Emilie you can hear on the other end.

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Salesman

Lars Schäfer Møller

Lars is our star salesman and is responsible for onboarding of new customers. It is Lars who makes sure that you get a good start with RE-ZIP.

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Communication Manager

Amalie Toft

Amalie started out as an intern at RE-ZIP while studying Information Science. She is responsible for communication – both visually and textual.

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Account manager

Asger Rungborg

Asger is a marketing manager and is responsible for the collaboration and maintenance of relationships with existing customers.

Tlf: +45 26 22 39 65
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SALES CONSULTANT

Peter Rønde

Peter has many years of experience from e-commerce and logistics, which he uses at RE-ZIP for new sales and establishment of partnerships.

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Warehouse operator

Uri Levi

Uri ensures that everything is in order at our warehouse and makes sure orders er properly packed and shipped to our partners.

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ORDER RESPONSIBLE

Karina Jøhnke

When Karina is not in high school, she packs the many shipments of RE-ZIP packaging that needs to be sent to our partners, when they are low in their existing stock.

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Quality assurance

Louise Boye

Louise works in our warehouse, where she is responsible for the internal processes and how the various tasks are performed. She ensures that our packaging always is of the right quality and ready for the next shipment.

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How RE-ZIP came to be

A small company with big ambitions for the future

A Better Alternative to Disposable Packaging

RE-ZIP was founded in 2018 in response to the immense amount of disposable packaging consumed by e-commerce annually. This amount of waste created by e-commerce is not only incredibly wasteful in resources, but also a nuisance for the consumers, who are struggling to get rid of the disposable packaging afterward.

The large amounts of waste generated by the growing e-commerce, along with an overflowing garbage-can made RE-ZIP’s founder Bo Bach Boddum wonder how packaging could be circular and designed to not be thrown away after use.

As a young man, Bo had a job where he cleaned used cardboard boxes so that they could be used again. And later as an adult, he worked in one of Denmark’s leading development houses. Therefore, the solution seemed straightforward.

“The packaging must be rethought and designed so that it can be folded into a format that accommodates the consumer’s handling of the packaging.”
– Bo Bach Boddum

To find a viable alternative to conventional disposable packaging, RE-ZIP realized that both a flexible bag and a hard box would have to be developed to accommodate the different types of products. The obvious infrastructure for getting the packaging returned was the International Postal Union, which allows return shipping across 30 countries. The challenge was that although most bags can be folded to fit in the letter slot of a mailbox, the box packaging is a much bigger challenge because it must be robust to protect the product while also being flexible enough to fold so that it fits in the letter slot of a mailbox.

Two Years of Development
Established packaging manufacturers were not particularly interested in contributing to the development of reusable shipping packaging. Therefore friends and acquaintances became involved instead. After two years of folding cardboard boxes in their spare time, the solution was in place. Quickly hereafter the patent was secured, and the position as Senior Project Manager at Vestas was replaced with life as an entrepreneur.After a busy period with the production of new packaging, software development, and the hunt for webshops that wanted to try the packaging, RE-ZIP officially launched in October 2018 with ten webshops.In the beginning, the returned packaging was cleaned outside in Bo’s private garage, and the office was in the private home as well. A little while later, the business outgrew the private garage, and in August 2019, Bo rented a storage room for storing and cleaning of the packaging.

One Turns into Four
Since then things have moved quickly. In April 2020, Thomas Fugl became part of the ownership circle. And later in August 2020, the RE-ZIP office moved out of Bo’s private home and into an office space in downtown Aarhus, where the team that now counts four works on improving the packaging, so in the future, it is even more environmental-friendly, easier to return and cheaper for the consumer.