Amcor Ltd - Premium Company Report Australia

30-06-2012, 29 pages

Amcor Ltd is a Public Company that is ranked number 23 out of the top 2000 companies in Australia. The company generates the majority of its income from the Converted Paper Product Manufacturing in Australia industry.

In 2012 the company generated total revenue of $12,352,600,000 including sales and other revenue. In 2012 Amcor Ltd had 33000 employees in Australia including employees from all subsidiaries under the company's control.

The Chief Executive of Amcor Ltd is Mr Ken MacKenzie whose official title is Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer. The Chairman of Amcor Ltd is Mr Chris Roberts whose official title is Non-Executive Chairman.

Amcor Ltd operates through the following six major divisions:

Amcor Australasia and Packaging Distribution: A packaging business that operates in Australia and New Zealand producing corrugated packaging, fibre displays, glass bottles and aluminium beverage cans and distributes and manufactures corrugated boxes in the United States.

Amcor Tobacco Packaging: This division is headquartered in Switzerland and combines with the Alcan Packaging group to manufacture tobacco packaging for Europe, Asia and Australasia.

Amcor Rigid Plastics: A global producer of PET packaging with manufacturing plants in 12 countries, the Rigid Plastics business supplies larger food and beverage companies throughout the world.

Amcor Flexibles Europe and Americas: This division combines the Alcan Packaging group with the Flexibles Food and Flexibles Healthcare businesses. With manufacturing operations across 48 plants, this division supplies a range of products to the food, beverage and healthcare markets including packaging for fresh foods such as meat, fish, bread, produce and dairy; processed food such as confectionery, snack foods, coffee and ready meals, medical applications, hospital supplies, pharmaceuticals and personal care products.

Amcor Flexibles Asia Pacific: This division utilises flexible packaging produced in its Europe, Asia and US factories, and manufactures a range of flexible products in Australia and New Zealand. This includes packaging for pharmaceuticals, medical devices and home care products, as well as food packaging for fresh meat, fish and bread and processed confectionary, snack foods and coffee.

AMVIG: Amcor holds 47.9% of AMVIG, a China based manufacturer of tobacco packaging. This division also include Alcan’s specialty packaging operation, which produces glass tubing and specialty cartons.

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