Consumers Packaging acquires glass-container manufacturing plant in Italy.

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 8, 1996--Consumers Packaging Inc. (Toronto Stock Exchange: CGC) today announced that it has entered into a long-term lease arrangement for the use of a partly completed glass-container manufacturing plant in Teramo, Italy. Consumers expects to complete the facility and to begin production in September 1997. The entire production of the facility in its first phase has been committed under a long-term supply agreement to a European company and is expected to generate approximately C$40 million in annual revenues.

Consumers Packaging, Inc. is a leading designer and producer of high quality glass containers. Headquartered in Canada, the Company operates seven manufacturing facilities and distributes its products domestically and internationally. Operating as Consumers Glass, it is the market share leader and only glass container producer in Canada, and is recognized as the fourth largest in North America.

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