
Graham Packaging Company is the world's leading custom rigid plastic container manufacturer, and serves a wide range of global consumer packaged goods companies in the automotive, household chemical and food & beverage markets. Major customers include Unilever, Procter & Gamble, Colgate, Dial, Tropicana, Ocean Spray, Danone, Hershey, Minute Maid, Welch's, Quaker Oats, Valvoline, Texaco, Castrol, Shell and Sun. From over 60 plants located throughout North America, Europe and Latin America, Graham Packaging manufactures roughly six billion plastic containers, closures and spouts annually, approximately 30% of which contain recycled plastic produced by Graham Recycling, the world's leading producer of bottle grade recycled high density polyethylene. On February 2, 1998 Graham brought The Blackstone Group to Graham Packaging as a majority financial partner in connection with a leveraged recapitalization of the company.