Winner of the BPF GOLD MEDAL 2012 Announced
Thursday, 18 October 2012
At the BPF 79th Annual Dinner on Thursday, 18th October BPF President Philip Watkins announced that Ron Marsh Chief Executive of RPC Group Plc has been awarded the British Plastics Federation’s Gold Medal for distinguished service to the Plastics Industry and the BPF.
The President presented Ron Marsh with his Gold Medal and said:
“Ron Marsh was once a graduate trainee at Metal Box at their Speke factory and over fifteen years rose to become plant manager. He moved to Reedpack and was the prime mover in the management buyout of RPC from Svenska Cellulosa in March 1991.
At the time, RPC had five sites and 1,000 employees. Today it has 51 sites with subsidiaries in 11 states of the European Union. Today RPC has 7,000 employees, including 2000 in the UK. Revenue in 2010/11 was £781 million. RPC is Europe’s leading manufacturer of rigid plastic packaging.
In 2006 he was named “Chief Executive of the Year” at the Packaging Awards ceremony.
He was President of the British Plastics Federation in 1997 – 98 and has been a strong supporter of its many programmes, particularly related to Plastics packaging.
Ron has been an inspirational leader in the Plastics industry and I am proud to present him with his Gold Medal tonight.”
ENDS
Photograph: Philip Watkins and Ron Marsh
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Notes for editors:
The British Plastics Federation (BPF) is the UK trade association for the plastics industry – representing the whole supply chain including polymer producers, distributors, additives suppliers, machinery manufacturers, processors and recyclers.
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