Smurfit Kappa Group is the paper, printing and packaging company most prolific at making international expansions, followed by Mondi and ePac Holdings. GlobalData’s paper, printing and packaging foreign direct investment (FDI) company report highlights the current foreign investments made by leading paper, printing and packaging investors. Buy the report here.
Smurfit Kappa Group has been the most active paper, printing and packaging greenfield investor between Q1 2019 and Q4 2023, according to GlobalData’s FDI Projects Database.
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Greenfield foreign direct investment is when a company invests abroad to establish a new physical presence or expand an existing operation. Greenfield investments create jobs and/or involve a capital investment into the foreign location. Other forms of FDI, such as mergers and acquisitions, are not included as part of this definition.
The majority of Smurfit Kappa Group investments were in the packaging material subsector. In fact, 81.3% of its total foreign investments were in this subsector. It also created projects across a further 5 subsectors.
By business function, most (81.3%) of Smurfit Kappa Group projects were related to manufacturing. Logistics & warehousing and R&D were the next most popular operations undertaken by Smurfit Kappa Group.
The company has been active across seven world regions, mainly focused on Western Europe which received 40.6% of the company’s greenfield investments between Q1 2019 and Q4 2023. Its top three destination countries (by number of greenfield FDI projects) were Colombia, Mexico and Germany. Combined these three countries account for 43.3% of its total number of paper, printing and packaging investments.
Smurfit Kappa Group created more FDI projects in 2021 compared to any other year between Q1 2019 and Q4 2023.
Other leading FDI project generators in the paper, printing and packaging industry include Mondi, ePac Holdings, Avery Dennison and DS Smith.
The US is the leading source market for outbound paper, printing and packaging greenfield FDI projects. The country accounts for 18.5% of total outbound paper, printing and packaging investment projects. There have been 46 unique parent companies from the US that have announced paper, printing and packaging FDI projects between between Q1 2019 and Q4 2023.
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