Smurfit Kappa Group Plc (SKG.L)

3,658.00 -80.00 (-2.14%) At close: 05:19PM BST

Smurfit Kappa Group Plc

Beech Hill
Clonskeagh
Dublin D04 N2R2
Ireland
353 1 202 7000
https://www.smurfitkappa.com

Sector(s): Consumer Cyclical
Industry: Packaging & Containers
Full-time employees: 47,000

Description

Smurfit Kappa Group Plc, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures, distributes, and sells containerboard, corrugated containers, and other paper-based packaging products in Ireland, Germany, France, Mexico, rest of Europe, and other Americas. The company offers e-commerce, retail, consumer, industrial, bottle, protective, heavy-duty, hexacomb, and various punnet packaging products; composite cardboard tubes, bags, and sacks; and bag-in-box, a packaging system that comprises films, accessories, bags, taps, and boxes. It also provides point of sale displays; cardboards of social distancing; corrugated sheet boards, solid board sheets, folding carton sheet boards, sack Kraft papers, MG brown Kraft papers, preprint products, agro-papers, technical papers, BanaBag, and Catcher Board MB12; and various types of containerboards, such as kraftliners, testliners, and containerboard flutings. In addition, the company offers recycling solutions to cardboard and paper products; and supplies packaging machinery. It primarily serves consumer goods, industrial goods, and food and drink sectors. Smurfit Kappa Group Plc was founded in 1934 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

Corporate governance

Smurfit Kappa Group Plc’s ISS governance QualityScore as of 1 June 2024 is 2. The pillar scores are Audit: 4; Board: 3; Shareholder rights: 1; Compensation: 3.

Corporate governance scores courtesy of Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). Scores indicate decile rank relative to index or region. A decile score of 1 indicates lower governance risk, while 10 indicates higher governance risk.