History
Berry Plastics was originally established in 1967 as Imperial Plastics. In recent years, Berry Plastics has completed several acquisitions including Mammoth Containers, Sterling Products, Tri-Plas, Alpha Products, PackerWare, Venture Packaging, Virginia Design Packaging, Container Industries, Knight Engineering and Plastics, Cardinal Packaging, Poly-Seal, Landis Plastics, Euromex Plastics S.A. de C.V., Kerr Group, Covalence Specialty Materials (the former Tyco Plastics & Adhesives business), Rollpak, Captive Plastics, and MAC Closures. The most recent acquisitions include Superfos and the Pliant Corporation.
Landis Plastics, Inc. was based in Chicago Ridge, Illinois, with five domestic facilities supporting North American customers. Landis manufactured injection molded and thermoformed plastic packaging for dairy and other food products. Landis had experienced robust organic growth in sales of 10.4%(1) over its last 15 years prior to being purchased by Berry Plastics. During 2002, Landis generated $211.6 million of net sales. Landis Plastics, Inc. was purchased by Berry Plastics Corp. in 2003.
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