Hints and tips:
...US megadeals are slowly bringing M&A action back If a UK paper and packaging company is at the centre of a bidding war, then M&A must be back....
...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...
...Reuters, the database publishing company, was one example. Technology analysts felt it was a publishing company, and publishing analysts felt it was a tech company....
...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....
...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....
...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....
...Shares in the company, which makes packaging for food and cosmetics, are still down over the past year as market concerns have risen about increased regulation of plastic waste....
...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....
...Packaging company Orora was the best performer, adding 3.6 per cent to hit a record high....
...Plated is one of numerous meal-kit companies to pop up in recent years, offering a shortcut for cooking at home by pre-packaging ingredients and recipes and shipping them to customers’ homes....
...Dow’s petrochemical operations provide the inputs used in DuPont’s ethylene copolymers, used in everything from food packaging to golf balls....
...Research from Cowen and Company, the US brokerage, shows the sector is highly fragmented; no single company has more than 5 per cent of the market....
...It then cautions that the way the industry is packaging catastrophe risks has similarities with how banks carved up subprime mortgages before the 2008 financial crisis....
...Issuance of commercial mortgage-backed securities in Europe was just €4.7bn last year, compared with well over €40bn in 2007, according to data company Trepp LLC....
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