Smurfit Kappa Group, the European paper and packing giant, has called on FTI Consulting to support communications for its $340M acquisition of U.S.-based Orange County Container Group.
OCCG operates packaging and retail display production, as well as recycling facilities in the southern U.S. and Mexico with about 2,800 employees, 2,000 in Mexico.
SKG, based in Dublin, is Europe’s top producer of corrugated packaging with operations in manufacturing, recycling and forestry. The company said the deal will boost its share of the Mexico market from 12 to 17 percent and give it a small position in “an increasingly consolidated U.S. market.”
FTI’s Dublin office is supporting investor and analyst relations for the all-cash deal, announced Sept. 24.