Article: AMCOR OFFERS TO ACQUIRE PARTS OF ALCAN PACKAGING.(Company overview)

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Amcor Offers to Acquire Parts of Alcan Packaging

MELBOURNE, Aug. 18 /Medianet International-AsiaNet/ --Amcor has offered to acquire parts of Alcan Packaging for US$2025 million from Rio Tinto. The Alcan Packaging businesses which Amcor has agreed to acquire include: Alcan Packaging Global Pharmaceuticals, Alcan Packaging Food Europe, Alcan Packaging Food Asia and Alcan Packaging Global Tobacco.

The combined company will be one of the world's leading packaging companies with significant breadth of expertise, products and services. As at June 2009, Amcor generated ...

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