Berry shareholders will receive a fixed exchange ratio of 7.25 Amcor shares for each Berry share held upon closing, resulting in Amcor and Berry shareholders owning approximately 63% and 37% of the combined company, respectively. The transaction has received unanimous approval of the boards of directors of both Amcor and Berry and values Berry’s common stock at $73.59 per share.
The combination brings together two highly complementary businesses to create a global leader in consumer packaging solutions, with a broader flexible film and converted film offering for customers, a scaled containers and closures business and a unique global healthcare portfolio. The combined company will have unprecedented innovation capabilities and scale, and be uniquely positioned to accelerate growth, solve customers’ and consumers’ sustainability needs, unlock portfolio transformation and deliver significant value to both sets of shareholders.
Amcor CEO, Peter Konieczny, said “This combination delivers on our strategy to accelerate growth by putting the customer first, elevating the role of sustainability and orienting the portfolio toward faster growing, higher margin categories. We will have a more complete and more sustainable product offering, supported by stronger innovation capabilities, global scale and supply chain flexibility. We will help global and local customers grow faster and operate more efficiently with a team of exceptional talent. As a result, this combination also drives a step change in annual free cash flow, earnings growth and value creation for our shareholders. I, and the Amcor team, look forward to joining with Berry to accelerate change and real impact for our customers and their consumers.”
Berry CEO, Kevin Kwilinski, added, “Over the past year, Berry has undergone a significant transformation, completing the spin-off of our HHNF business, enhancing our product mix and optimizing our portfolio. Our combination with Amcor is a logical next step in our company’s evolution, and it is a testament to our entire team that we’re well positioned to build on this momentum and deliver even more value to our shareholders. We expect to better serve customers through a comprehensive and innovative consumer packaging portfolio and a complementary geographic coverage. Importantly Berry and Amcor have aligned philosophies focused on safety, employee experience, sustainability, innovation, customer intimacy, and functional excellence. We will be better together, and I look forward to all we will achieve as a combined organization.”
Compelling Strategic Benefits:
- Stronger business, strategically focused on high-growth, high-margin categories with greater capabilities and a more complete product offering for customers
- Creates a global product offering in flexibles, containers and closures by combining Amcor’s global flexibles and regional containers businesses with Berry’s regional flexibles and global containers and closures businesses
- Combines two highly attractive and complementary global healthcare businesses
- Strengthens positions in high-growth, high-value categories, including Healthcare, Protein, Pet Food, Liquids, Beauty & Personal Care, and Food Service
- Brings together complementary innovation capabilities and platforms, material science expertise and specialized tooling, design and multi-component assembly capabilities
- Creates the innovation partner of choice developing the most sustainable packaging solutions
- Offers customers a wider range of more sustainable solutions which drive circularity, increase use of alternative materials and lower carbon footprint
- Delivers greater choice for customers and consumers with a portfolio of unique flexible, container and closure solutions developed using a broader range of recycled materials, next generation lightweighting technologies, reuse and recycle ready capabilities and differentiated high barrier paper based formats
- Establishes technology driven innovation leader with more capabilities and significantly higher capacity to invest in solving technical challenges with combined R&D investment of $180 million per annum, ~1,500 R&D professionals, 10 innovation centers worldwide and 7,000+ patents, registered designs, and trademarks
- Enhances capabilities by leveraging corporate venturing partnerships to access new and groundbreaking sustainability solutions (substrates, barrier, fiber and recycling), digital solutions and disruptive ideas in adjacent businesses and technologies
- Scale and reach provide local expertise, global capabilities and supply chain resilience
- Optimizes footprint servicing customers in 140+ countries through ~400 production facilities, brings global capabilities to local customers and provides local access and expertise to global brands
- Supports customers in accessing broader growth opportunities and addressing specific regional needs with a balanced geographic presence across continents including in high-growth emerging markets
- Enhances scale and reach that ensure supply chain resilience in a dynamic world and access to global manufacturing best practices
