Smurfit Kappa chief executive: 'We love our corrugated boxes'

Packaging may not be glamorous but Smurfit does it in style, writes Emma Kennedy

Tony Smurfit Pic: RollingNews.ie

This morning’s Smurfit Kappa agm was a docile affair: all resolutions passed, and not a single question from shareholders.

Earlier this morning, the paper and packaging company announced a 6 per cent increase in earnings before interest, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA), and said that revenues rose 2 per cent year-on-year to €2 billion.

Smurfit Kappa’s chairman Liam O’Mahony was upbeat when addressing shareholders in a Dublin hotel hours after the results were released, ...