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DS Smith

May 2024

  • Plastic containers sorted for processing at a recycling facility in the US

    Packaging firm calls for tighter UK rules on plastics to drive green economy

    FTSE 100 firm DS Smith, which works with firms over alternatives, urges next government to match global standards

April 2024

  • DS Smith Packaging Atlantique in La Chevroliere, near Nantes

    UK packaging firm DS Smith agrees £5.8bn takeover by US group

    International Paper settles all-share deal after tussle with British rival Mondi

March 2024

  • The DS Smith logo in an office

    International bidding war brewing for UK packaging firm

    US-based International Paper puts in £5.7bn takeover proposal for DS Smith, gatecrashing Mondi offer

October 2023

  • Miles Roberts, the chief executive of DS Smith

    UK must offer businesses certainty over green energy, says boss of FTSE 100 firm

    Miles Roberts of packaging-maker DS Smith warns manufacturing will decline unless government provides clarity about decarbonisation

March 2023

  • A DS Smith plant in the US. CEO Miles Roberts said uncertainty over the Tories’ energy plans was making it more difficult to invest in new facilities in the UK.

    UK urged to ‘level up’ on green tech subsidies to match US and EU

  • Rachel Reeves

    Labour proposes long-term tax breaks to increase UK investment and growth

December 2022

  • Nils Pratley

    Nils Pratley on finance
    Public patience is wearing thin. Ofwat must wield the big stick

    Nils Pratley
    Putting water companies on the naughty step and doling out tame financial penalties in not enough

July 2020

  • Nils Pratley

    Nils Pratley on finance
    Why the secrecy around financial terms of Covid-19 loan to Celsa Steel UK?

    Nils Pratley
    Rishi Sunak is right to help sector weather pandemic but needs to show Treasury is top of tree of creditors

June 2015

  • Nils Pratley

    Nils Pratley on finance
    Should Network Rail be split up?

    Nils Pratley
    The question is whether the necessary improvements can happen within a timeframe acceptable to government and passengers

17 September 2014

  • bonuses

    Anger at DS Smith boss's £200k relocation allowance for 40-mile move

    Forty percent of shareholders fail to back remuneration report at packaging firm after details of payment to Mike Roberts

  • Market Forces blog
    FTSE 100 falters ahead of Scottish vote and Federal Reserve, while Smiths slides

    Engineering group drops 6% after falling profits and medical sale disappointment

  • Market Forces blog
    JD Sports jumps as profits double, but IG hit by quiet trading conditions

    Mixed fortunes for FTSE 250 businesses as they unveil latest trading updates

January 2012

  • Market Forces blog
    Essar drops by a quarter after tax ruling, but FTSE flies higher after Chinese data

    Indian group loses billion dollar case in supreme court over deferral of sales tax payments

  • Market Forces blog
    Packaging group DS Smith pays £1.3bn to boost European business

    Deal to buy SCA's packaging business part funded by deeply discounted cash call
  • Gareth Davis, former chair of Imperial Tobacco

    Nils Pratley on finance
    Gareth Davis takes chairmanship number three

    Nils Pratley: Gareth Davis, who bowed out as chief executive of Imperial Tobacco in May 2010, has now accepted his third gig

July 2010

  • Nils Pratley

    Viewpoint column
    Bargain Otor

    Nils Pratley
    DS Smith pays £206m for Otor

December 2009

  • Market forces
    Live music group Mama provides entertainment on a quiet day

  • Market Forces blog
    Packager DS Smith shares soar as it improves outlook

February 2006

  • 135 jobs to go as cardboard mill closes

    Packaging firm DS Smith blamed soaring energy costs and a fall in sales as it yesterday announced plans to close one of its paper mills, with the loss of 135 staff.

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