Rpc Group Plc - RPC- Profile

RPC Group Plc(RPC). The Group's principal activity is manufacturing and selling rigid plastic packaging and associated equipment. The Group focuses on packaging for food and drink, confectionery, dairy products, cosmetics and beauty items, healthcare and toiletry products, pharmaceuticals, building and do-it-yourself, household and industrial chemicals, agrochemicals, surface coatings, ambient shelf stable products, snacks and chilled foods, and protective electronics packaging. Products include plastic bottles, boxes, bowls, buckets, cans, caps, cosmetics, closures, compacts, cups, cutlery, disposables, dishes, dispensers, film, glasses, microwave jars, jerrycans, lids, pails, pots, sandwich packs, sheet, trays, tubs, inhalers, mouthpieces, widgets and natural corks. The Group also processes natural corks and stoppers for the Champagne, wines and spirits industry. The Group operates in the United Kingdom, the United States of America, the Netherlands, France, Hungary and Germany. Injection Moulding accounted for 40% of fiscal 2006 revenues; Thermoforming, 36% and Blow Moulding, 24%