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...The UK packaging industry aside, most of this year’s M&A action is happening across the Atlantic, with the US pulling its weight....
...Earlier this year, BDT & MSD did another deal in the packaging sector when it bought a stake in US company ProMach....
...The $598bn investment firm has also failed to follow through on deals for publisher Pearson, gambling company William Hill and packaging business RPC Group.Apollo is considered to be one of the buyout industry...
...The provider of printing inks and coatings for packaging and labels built Packiro, a platform that consolidates packaging demand from companies with small-batch needs and connects them to print shops....
...Yet many of the applications discussed at Microsoft’s event remain theoretical: success will depend on packaging technologies in ways that make them safe and productive to use, as well as fitting into existing...
...John, 76, who used to work in promotions and consumer packaging, says he came to his faith in his early thirties. “I was burning the candle at both ends, and then I found another way, a spiritual way.”...
...It arranges funding for companies either through a bank it owns in Germany or by packaging these supplier bills up into bond-like investments for the Credit Suisse funds....
...Mind you, there was that RPC plastic packaging deal last year . . . Sir Stelios £5m? Whistle for it!...
...The company, VentureMFO LLC, is in the database as borrowing between $5m and $10m, the maximum amount available, and retaining a single employee....
...Throwing these capabilities together turned out to be harder than it looked, and it took the genius of Apple to produce the first coherent packaging of wristwear technology in the shape of its Watch....
...Having announced a take-it-or-leave-it price for UK packaging firm RPC, Apollo faces the risk of being outbid....
...Amcor agreed on Monday to take over US rival Bemis for $6.8bn in an all-stock deal that executives said would give the Australian packaging group a stronger foothold in the Americas....
...Bemis, which makes plastic packaging for a variety of industries, generated sales of $4bn in the 12 months to end December 2017....
...Europe’s packaging sector is in a period of consolidation, with companies bulking up to better serve consumer goods groups who want to deal with fewer suppliers....
...In the most recent case Amcor, the Australia-listed packaging group agreed to take over its US rival Bemis in August, and in June UK cardboard-box maker DS Smith agreed a €1.7bn all-cash acquisition of Spanish...
...Berry Global Group, the US plastic packaging company, is seeking to gatecrash the £3.3bn takeover of its UK competitor RPC by a private equity firm....
...The proposed £3.3bn takeover of RPC, Europe’s biggest plastic packaging company, has come under attack from two shareholders who say the bid from US private equity firm Apollo Global Management is too low...
...And it seems her horror story should have been required reading for the private equity bods at Apollo, as they planned their £3.3bn bid for UK packaging group RPC....
...Three recent packaging business transactions occurred at an average of 11.5 times ebitda, well above that of RPC....
...It comes just months after Australia’s Amcor Ltd agreed to acquire US competitor Bemis in an all-stock deal valued at $5.26bn and DS Smith agreed to buy Spanish packaging supplier Europac....
...The interest from private equity in RPC follows a busy few months of consolidation for the packaging sector, including an offer from Amcor for Bemis, Transcontinental’s approach for Coveris and AptarGroup...
...packaging group a stronger foothold in the Americas....
...Shoppers have shifted towards fresher and healthier produce and away from processed food, while costs for packaging, ingredients and transport have risen....
...The company is faced with declining demand for its flagship canned soups amid a flight to healthier alternatives, and rising costs for packaging, ingredients and transport....
...(FT) News Round-up Linde-Praxair $80bn megamerger faces fresh hurdles (FT) DoJ says AT&T ruling defied ‘fundamental economic logic’ (FT) Packaging group Amcor to acquire US rival Bemis for $6.8bn (FT...
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