When Greif, a world leader in industrial packaging products and services, announced it was to acquire the steel drum manufacturing business of Blagden Packaging Group in October 2006, alarm bells began to ring at the UK competition authorities.
Greif, which has its UK headquarters in Ellesmere Port, and Blagden, which has a base in Trafford Park, Manchester, were the UK’s leading manufacturers of steel drums used for industrial packaging and between them supplied around 85% of the market.
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