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• Macfarlane boss delivers the goods : Valerie Darroch meets Peter

  - 2004-03-14

  A ROW of multi-coloured plastic scoops for baby milk powder is one of the first things to catch the eye when you walk into the office of Peter Atkinson, chief executive of Glasgow-headquartered Macfarlane Group. They are displayed on a sideboard alongside a Harrods box, a canister...

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• Breaking the mould

  - 2001-12-16

  IAN DUFFIN originally wanted to be an architect, but his high- flying corporate career - which has included stints in California, Brussels and London before returning to Scotland - took him in a completely different direction. The silver-haired dapper chief executive of Glasgow-headquartered Macfarlane started his career...

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• Macfarlane Group.

  - 2001-08-20

  Financial Times The failure of Macfarlane Group's [pound]310m (e489m) bid last year for British Polythene Industries BPI has prompted the Scottish company to pull out of the plastics industry altogether. Macfarlane has agreed to sell its plastics division for [pound]48.7m to Tyco Plastics ...

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• NEWS CLIPS.(plastic industry)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)

  - 2000-12-04

  Sealaska soliciting offers for TriQuest JUNEAU, ALASKA -- Sealaska Corp. has retained investment banker Bainbridge Inc. to solicit offers for custom injection molder TriQuest Precision Plastics. Bainbridge's San Diego office began circulating prospectuses in October. Sealaska of Juneau acquired 90 percent...

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• BPI throws out 'too low' #2.50 Macfarlane bid

  - 2000-10-15

  ONE OF British Polythene Industries' largest institutional shareholders has said that the 250p a share hostile offer for the Greenock-based firm by Scottish packaging rival Macfarlane Group is far too low. The shareholder said it was looking for an offer "in the high 300s" and it was...

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• BPI dismisses Macfarlane's pounds 92m bid

  - 2000-09-22

  BRITISH POLYTHENE Industries yesterday rejected a pounds 92m takeover offer from its rival Macfarlane Group as "wholly inadequate". Macfarlane bid 250p a share for its fellow Scottish packaging group. British Polythene is the market leader in Europe for polythene products, but has been dogged by poor trading...

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• Macfarlane buys 2 film makers.(Brief Article)

  - 2000-09-11

  Macfarlane Group plc has boosted its plastics division with the purchase of two small British film extruders and has launched its first packaging plant in Eastern Europe. The Glasgow, Scotland-based company paid 2.6 million ($3.87 million) for the latest acquisitions: profitable polyethylene film ...

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• Macfarlane selling cap unit to Alucapvit.

  - 1999-12-13

  Scotland's restructuring packaging group Macfarlane Group plc is selling its spirit-bottle-closure business, Daniel Montgomery & Son Ltd., to Italian closure manufacturer Alucapvit SpA for 2 million ($3.2 million). The Kirkintilloch, Scotland-based injection molder, which employs 121, has annual sales of more than 7...

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• Macfarlane Group launches film division.

  - 1999-11-29

  Film and packaging producer Macfarlane Group plc of Glasgow, Scotland, has taken the initial step in a major shakeup of its 13 subsidiaries by forming the first of four new divisions. Macfarlane Plastics Ltd., launched Nov. 1, brings together six of the subsidiaries in...

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• SCOTLAND'S MACFARLANE GROUP BUYS WESTERN FOAM PACKAGING.

  - 1999-09-13

  Macfarlane Group Clansman plc has reached across the Atlantic to capture the first of what it expects to be a series of acquisitions. The Glasgow, Scotland-based film and packaging company bought Western Foam Packaging Products of Hayward, Calif., a family-run producer of plastic...

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