date:Jul 31, 2014
Smurfit Kappa, the Ireland-based packaging group, has announced a pre-tax profit of 228 million for the first half of the year. This is a massive increase of 79 per cent on the same period last year.
Revenue for the period rose 1 per cent to 3.95 billion. European revenues were 3 per cent higher than the same period last year, due to demand and an increase in price.
In the Americas, there was a 7-per-cent fall in revenue for the same period, which the group said was attributable to the new exc