The Arjo businesses employed 463 people in the UK, and 368 were made redundant immediately at the time of the administration. Arjowiggins had received £12m in funding via Scottish Enterprise including support for the 2019 MBO that rescued the business after the failure of its then-parent company Sequana. In its first full year of trading, to 31 December 2020, AW Creative Paper Group filed sales of £99.9m and made a pre-tax profit of £92,840. It received £3.65m in government grant income during the period.