Graham Packaging is the world’s leading custom rigid plastic container manufacturer, and serves a wide range of global consumer packaged goods companies in the automotive, household chemical, and food & beverage markets. Major customers include Abbott Laboratories, Castrol, Chevron, Church & Dwight, Clement Pappas, Clorox, Coca-Cola, Colgate, Danone, Dial, ExxonMobil, Heinz, Johnson & Johnson, Ocean Spray, PepsiCo, Procter & Gamble, Quaker Oats, Shell, Tropicana, Unilever, Valvoline, and Welch’s.

In 1998, The Graham Group brought The Blackstone Group to Graham Packaging as a majority financial partner in connection with a leveraged recapitalization of the company. The Graham Group has retained a minority ownership position in the business. This transaction was intended to augment Graham Packaging’s ability to fund global capital expansion initiatives, while providing The Graham Group with increased liquidity to invest in other business ventures.

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