Greif, Inc. manufactures and sells industrial packaging products, bulk containers, and containerboard and corrugated products worldwide. The company’s Rigid Industrial Packaging and Services segment provides industrial packaging products, including rigid intermediate bulk containers, transit protection products, water bottles, reconditioned containers, and closure systems, as well as steel, fiber, and plastic drums; and services, such as container lifecycle, blending, filling, packaging, logistics, and warehousing services. This segment sells its products to customers in chemicals, paints and pigments, food and beverage, petroleum, industrial coatings, agricultural, pharmaceutical, and mineral industries. Its Flexible Products and Services segment offers flexible intermediate bulk containers; and industrial and consumer shipping sacks and multiwall bag products, which are used to ship industrial and consumer products, such as seed, fertilizers, chemicals, concrete, flour, sugar, feed, pet foods, popcorn, charcoal, and salt primarily in the agricultural, chemical, building products, and food industries. The company’s Paper Packaging segment sells containerboards, corrugated sheets, and other corrugated products to customers in the packaging, automotive, food, and building products industries. This segment’s corrugated container products are used to ship home appliances, small machinery, grocery products, building products, automotive components, books, and furniture. Its Land Management segment is involved in the harvest and regeneration of timber properties; and sale of timberland and special use land. As of October 31, 2011, this segment owned approximately 267,750 acres of timber property in the southeastern United States and approximately 14,700 acres of timber property in Canada. The company was formerly known as Greif Bros. Corporation and changed its name to Greif, Inc. in 2001. Greif, Inc. was founded in 1877 and is headquartered in Delaware, Ohio.

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