REXAM

Profits down in plastic packaging / Personal Care business to be divested / Healthcare remains key activity / Beverage cans drive record group profit

REXAM

Plastic packaging underperforms / Personal care business could be sold / Optimism for 2012

FLEXIBLE PACKAGING

Modest growth expected up to 2016 / US still largest consumer, but China catching up / Asia likely to take more than half of global output / Plastics the dominant substrate / Pira study

BERRY PLASTICS

Linpac Packaging Filmco acquired / Takeover of Rexam's specialty and beverage closures business wrapped up

REXAM

Packaging group's plastics division reports lower sales and earnings / Countermeasures planned

REXAM

Closures business bought by Berry Plastics for GBP 360m / Restructuring of plastics operations continues

PEOPLE

Jonathan Rich appointed CEO of Berry Plastics

BERRY PLASTICS

Former Pliant unit in Germany is renamed / Several US plants set to close by year's end