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Jefferson Smurfit Group plc
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 PROFILE
Jefferson Smurfit Group has left a paper trail all over Europe and the Americas. Through subsidiaries and affiliates, the holding company is the world's top maker of containerboard and corrugated containers and a leading wastepaper recycler. It operates about 600 facilities in Europe and the Americas that produce containerboard and convert it into corrugated cases, folding cartons, paper sacks, tubes, and composite cans. Jefferson Smurfit owns about 30% of Smurfit-Stone Container (US), and it has sold its newsprint and timberland holdings to focus on corrugated packaging. North American investors own more than 40% of the company; directors, including chairman Michael Smurfit and other family members, own 12%.

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 FINANCIAL OVERVIEW
Fiscal Year-End: December
2000 Sales (mil.): 4,299.50
1-Yr. Sales Growth: 15.5%
Employees: 24,377
Revenue per employee: $176,375.27

 KEY PEOPLE
• Michael W. J. Smurfit
    CEO
• Ian Curley
    CFO

 CONTACT INFO
Beech Hill, Clonskeagh
Dublin 4, Ireland
Phone: 353-1-202-7000
Fax: 353-1-269-4481
Online: Web Site

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